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

The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre

Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie, the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.

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

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

Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast

Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in

Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011, José Pizarro's pintxos counter

Sam and Sam Clark's tapas-bar sister to Moro, eight metres along the same row, the small-plate version of the same kitchen.

Great Titchfield Street's all-day brasserie, the Fitzrovia office and the Sunday brunch in one room

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre

A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs

The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu