Lively in London

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

Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site — the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit

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

UK's No.1 gastropub 2026 — the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it

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