Venues similar to BAO Soho

Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter, Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument

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

David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse, the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to

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

The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990, BYOB, walk-in only, untouched

Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı, kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard

Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual, sushi without the omakase ceremony

Coal Drops Yard sit-down taqueria, al pastor on a vertical spit, the rebranded Casa Pastor

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

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

Nineteen seats around a single counter, two Michelin stars, and a tasting menu that reads like a daily field report from British producers.

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline

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

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

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

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