The Anchor & Hope Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Convivial Lively The Anchor & Hope Waterloo $$ The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre Same category
The Cow Restaurant Restaurant Compare Lively Classic Cozy The Cow Notting Hill $$$ Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre Same category
The Cross Keys Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Cozy Lively The Cross Keys Chelsea $$$ A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs Same category
The Pig's Ear Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Cozy Lively The Pig's Ear Chelsea $$$ The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu Same category
Josephine Marylebone Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Classic Lively Josephine Marylebone Marylebone $$$ Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site, the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit Same category
Dorian Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Lively Modern Intimate Dorian Notting Hill $$$ Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026 Same category
Ronnie Scott's Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Intimate Literary Ronnie Scott's Soho $$$ Frith Street's 1959 jazz room, the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps Similar vibe
Dishoom Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Convivial Lively Dishoom Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast Same category
Six Portland Road Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Classic Cozy Six Portland Road Holland Park $$$ The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to Same category
Jikoni Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Modern Cozy Jikoni Marylebone $$$ Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in Same category