Venues similar to Manteca

Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression, Spitalfields

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

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

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

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

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

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

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

Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub, Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food

St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole

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

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

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