Best Modern Places in London

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

Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026

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

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

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

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

Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki — the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window

World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half

Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road

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

The Berkeley's pastry counter — Grolet's first London room, the trompe-l'œil fruits the audience has only seen on Instagram

Paddington Street modern Greek — sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.

Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian — the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.

Rafael Cagali's two-Michelin-star tasting room inside the Town Hall Hotel — Bethnal Green's destination kitchen.