Venues similar to Hawksmoor Spitalfields

Since 1742, Jermyn Street oysters, game in season, and a clubland Britain that has stopped existing almost everywhere else.

Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking

Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road, house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch

Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression, Spitalfields

Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room, the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred room, Charlotte Street since 1991, in its 35th anniversary year

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

Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki, the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement

Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026

Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian, one Michelin star held since 2012

Jonny Lake and Isa Bal's two-Michelin-star à la carte room, Fat Duck alumni at neighbourhood register

JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street, Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves.

British ingredients, Mexican grammar, Santiago Lastra's Marylebone manifesto

River Café DNA, hotel-restaurant comfort, Tuscan cooking on Park Lane

Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian, the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.