Venues similar to Sumi

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter, Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument

Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated, the Spanish bar London learned the format from

Erchen Chang and the Chung siblings' original Lexington Street bun counter, Bib Gourmand Taiwanese, queue-only on the corner

David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse, the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to

Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team, clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.

Pistachio-green Soho deli since 1944, pasta as Italian commute

Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican, generous, regional, unfussy

Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026

The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to

The fresh-pasta queue London actually accepts, Shoreditch sister of the Borough original

Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı, kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard

Paddington Street modern Greek, sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.

Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room, the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.

Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house, Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.

Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms, wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.

Coal Drops Yard sit-down taqueria, al pastor on a vertical spit, the rebranded Casa Pastor

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho