Best Places for Business Lunch in London

Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship — modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling

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

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

Angela Hartnett's one-star Italian on Queen Street — the civilised Mayfair lunch the neighbourhood's regulars actually keep.

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

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

Tom Sellers' two-Michelin-star tasting room — the chapter's South-Bank fine-dining anchor

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

Piccadilly's grand café — the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper

Great Titchfield Street's all-day brasserie — the Fitzrovia office and the Sunday brunch in one room

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

The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously

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

Mayfair mews chophouse since 1952 — beef Wellington and steak-and-kidney pie