BiBi Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin One Star Chef Driven Modern BiBi Mayfair $$$$ Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian — the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.
A Bar with Shapes for a Name Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Modern Intimate Artistic A Bar with Shapes for a Name Haggerston $$$ Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road
American Bar at The Savoy Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen American Bar at The Savoy Strand $$$$ The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
Andrew Edmunds Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Historic Romantic Intimate Andrew Edmunds Soho $$$ Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu — the last romantic room in old Soho
Bocca di Lupo Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Classic Convivial Bocca di Lupo Soho $$$ Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street — every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep
Brat Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Wood Fire Intimate Brat Shoreditch $$$$ Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship — whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking
Core by Clare Smyth Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Intimate Modern Core by Clare Smyth Notting Hill $$$$ Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship — modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling
Dorian Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Lively Modern Intimate Dorian Notting Hill $$$ Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie — wood-fired grill, retained star 2026
Josephine Marylebone Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Classic Lively Josephine Marylebone Marylebone $$$ Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site — the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit
KOL Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin Destination Tasting Menu KOL Marylebone $$$$ British ingredients, Mexican grammar — Santiago Lastra's Marylebone manifesto
Lyaness Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Modern Waterfront Elegant Lyaness Bankside $$$ Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window
Mangal II Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Family Run Intimate Chef Led Mangal II Dalston $$$ The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994 — the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to
Manteca Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Nose To Tail Wood Fire Buzzy Manteca Shoreditch $$$ Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road — house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch
Mountain Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Modern Fire Cooked Mountain Soho $$$$ Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room — the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in
Quo Vadis Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Historic Chef Led Classic Quo Vadis Soho $$$ Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room — the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Intimate Classic Restaurant Gordon Ramsay Chelsea $$$$ Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001
Roka Charlotte Street Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare See & Be Seen Modern Convivial Roka Charlotte Street Fitzrovia $$$$ Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki — the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement
Ronnie Scott's Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Intimate Literary Ronnie Scott's Soho $$$ Frith Street's 1959 jazz room — the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps
Sessions Arts Club Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare See & Be Seen Artistic Historic Sessions Arts Club Clerkenwell $$$$ A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room — Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen
Tayēr + Elementary Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Modern Intimate Artistic Tayēr + Elementary Old Street $$$ World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half
The Audley Public House Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant Artistic The Audley Public House Mayfair $$$ Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub — Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling
The Devonshire Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Lively Classic See & Be Seen The Devonshire Soho $$$ UK's No.1 gastropub 2026 — the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it
The Harwood Arms Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant Intimate The Harwood Arms Fulham $$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub — Fulham backstreets, game and wild food
The Ledbury Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Intimate Modern The Ledbury Notting Hill $$$$ Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026
Trishna Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Modern Intimate Trishna Marylebone $$$ Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian — one Michelin star held since 2012
Brawn Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Natural Wine Intimate Brawn Bethnal Green $$$ Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro — the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen
Cavita Restaurant Restaurant Compare Modern Mexican Tortillas Mezcal Cavita Marylebone $$$ Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican — generous, regional, unfussy
Cora Pearl Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Clubby Elegant Cora Pearl Covent Garden $$$ Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team — clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.
Discount Suit Company Bar Bar Compare Intimate Moody Convivial Discount Suit Company Aldgate $$$ Wentworth Street's unmarked basement — the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope
Happiness Forgets Bar Bar Compare Intimate Moody Convivial Happiness Forgets Hoxton $$$ Hoxton Square's basement — the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
Hawksmoor Spitalfields Restaurant Restaurant Compare Steakhouse Institution Group Dining Hawksmoor Spitalfields Spitalfields $$$$ The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously
J Sheekey Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen J Sheekey Covent Garden $$$ St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution — Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole
Jikoni Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Modern Cozy Jikoni Marylebone $$$ Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room — Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in
Six Portland Road Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Classic Cozy Six Portland Road Holland Park $$$ The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to
Som Saa Restaurant Restaurant Compare Regional Chef Favourite Spicy Som Saa Spitalfields $$$ Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression — Spitalfields
Sumi Restaurant Restaurant Compare Sushi Casual Neighbourhood Sumi Notting Hill $$$ Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual — sushi without the omakase ceremony
Swift Soho Bar Bar Compare Chef Led Intimate Candlelit Swift Soho Soho $$$ Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room — aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below