BiBi Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin One Star Chef Driven Modern BiBi Mayfair $$$$ Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian — the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.
Lyle's Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin One Star Chef Driven Minimal Lyle's Shoreditch $$$$ James Lowe's one-Michelin-star Shoreditch room — the founding text of the East London modern-British school.
A. Wong Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin Two Star Destination Chef Driven A. Wong Pimlico $$$$ Andrew Wong's two-Michelin-star pan-regional Chinese on Wilton Road — the first Chinese restaurant outside Asia to hold two stars.
Andrew Edmunds Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Historic Romantic Intimate Andrew Edmunds Soho $$$ Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu — the last romantic room in old Soho
Antepliler Baklava Shop Editor's Pick Shop Compare Family Run Artisan Diaspora Antepliler Baklava Harringay $$ London's first authentic Antep baklavacı since 1993 — Murat Üstünsürmeli's Grand Parade pastry house
Bocca di Lupo Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Classic Convivial Bocca di Lupo Soho $$$ 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 $$$$ Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship — whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking
Cycene Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Intimate Modern Minimalist Cycene Shoreditch $$$$ A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School — cooking is the only headline
Dorian Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Lively Modern Intimate Dorian Notting Hill $$$ Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie — wood-fired grill, retained star 2026
Gymkhana Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin Two Star Elegant Iconic Gymkhana Mayfair $$$$ JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street — Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves.
Josephine Marylebone Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Classic Lively Josephine Marylebone Marylebone $$$ 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 $$$$ British ingredients, Mexican grammar — Santiago Lastra's Marylebone manifesto
Mangal II Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Family Run Intimate Chef Led Mangal II Dalston $$$ 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 $$$ Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road — house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch
Mountain Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Modern Fire Cooked Mountain Soho $$$$ Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room — the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in
Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Wine Led Bistro Magazine Room Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bloomsbury $$$ The wine-magazine bar — Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015
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
Tayēr + Elementary Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Modern Intimate Artistic Tayēr + Elementary Old Street $$$ World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half
The Anchor & Hope Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Convivial Lively The Anchor & Hope Waterloo $$ The Cut's no-bookings gastropub — what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre
The Audley Public House Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant Artistic The Audley Public House Mayfair $$$ Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub — Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling
The Berkeley Hotel Editor's Pick Hotel Compare Iconic Elegant Contemporary The Berkeley Knightsbridge $$$$ The Maybourne sister to Connaught and Claridge's — Wilton Place, a rooftop pool over Hyde Park, and a 2024 redesign that finally looks contemporary.
The Connaught Bar Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Elegant Iconic Destination The Connaught Bar Mayfair $$$$ Agostino Perrone's silver-trolley martini and a room that has spent a decade at or near the top of the World's 50 Best Bars list.
The French House Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Intimate Literary The French House Soho $$ Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout — the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s
The Harwood Arms Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant Intimate The Harwood Arms Fulham $$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub — Fulham backstreets, game and wild food
The Peninsula London Hotel Editor's Pick Hotel Compare New Elegant Destination The Peninsula London Belgravia $$$$ The billion-pound 2023 opening at Hyde Park Corner — Brooklands by Claude Bosi on the roof, and the most architecturally serious new hotel in W1 in decades.
The Wolseley Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen The Wolseley Piccadilly $$$ Piccadilly's grand café — the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper
Trishna Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Modern Intimate Trishna Marylebone $$$ Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian — one Michelin star held since 2012
Trinity Restaurant Restaurant Compare Michelin Two Star Chef Driven Neighbourhood Trinity Clapham $$$$ Adam Byatt's two-Michelin-star Clapham Old Town room — the most considered cooking south-west of the river.
107 Wine Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Residency Natural Wine Tiny Room 107 Wine Lower Clapton $$$ P. Franco's successor at 107 Lower Clapton — a 25-cover wine shop with a hot plate at the back, chef residencies kept
3 Greek Street Bar Bar Compare Whisky Speakeasy Merchant Bar 3 Greek Street Soho $$$ Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door — Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024
40 Maltby Street Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Natural Wine No Reservations 40 Maltby Street Bermondsey $$$ A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches — chef Steve Williams
Balthazar London Restaurant Restaurant Compare Lively Iconic Convivial Balthazar London Covent Garden $$$ Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie — the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.
BAO Soho Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Casual Counter Dining BAO Soho Soho $$ Erchen Chang and the Chung siblings' original Lexington Street bun counter — Bib Gourmand Taiwanese, queue-only on the corner
Bar Italia Cafe Cafe Compare Heritage Late Night No Bookings Bar Italia Soho $ Frith Street since 1949 — the espresso bar Soho is built around
Barrafina Dean Street Restaurant Restaurant Compare Counter Dining Lively Casual Barrafina Dean Street Soho $$$ Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated — the Spanish bar London learned the format from
Black Rock Bar Bar Compare Whisky No Frills Expert Led Black Rock Shoreditch $$$ Shoreditch's whisky reference — 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table
Brawn Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Natural Wine Intimate Brawn Bethnal Green $$$ Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro — the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen
Brown's Hotel Hotel Hotel Compare Iconic Elegant Traditional Brown's Hotel Mayfair $$$$ London's oldest luxury hotel — 13 connected Georgian townhouses on Albemarle Street, a Michelin-starred Charlie's by Adam Byatt, and Rocco Forte stewardship.
Cavita Restaurant Restaurant Compare Modern Mexican Tortillas Mezcal Cavita Marylebone $$$ Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican — generous, regional, unfussy
Cédric Grolet at The Berkeley Cafe Cafe Compare Modern Elegant See & Be Seen Cédric Grolet at The Berkeley Belgravia $$$$ The Berkeley's pastry counter — Grolet's first London room, the trompe-l'œil fruits the audience has only seen on Instagram
Claridge's Hotel Hotel Compare Iconic Art Deco Elegant Claridge's Mayfair $$$$ The Brook Street Art Deco grande dame — afternoon tea in the Foyer, a Foyer Bar by Bryan O'Sullivan, and the most famous lobby in London.
Cora Pearl Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Clubby Elegant Cora Pearl Covent Garden $$$ Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team — clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.
Daylesford Pimlico Cafe Cafe Compare Calm Elegant Neighbourhood Daylesford Pimlico Pimlico $$$ Carole Bamford's Pimlico Road farmshop and café — the smaller, calmer SW1 sister to the Notting Hill flagship.
Discount Suit Company Bar Bar Compare Intimate Moody Convivial Discount Suit Company Aldgate $$$ Wentworth Street's unmarked basement — the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope
Dishoom Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Convivial Lively Dishoom Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café — the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast
Diyarbakır Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Compare Family Run Casual Diaspora Diyarbakır Restaurant Harringay $$ Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı — kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard
Donostia Restaurant Restaurant Compare Specialist Convivial Informed Donostia Marylebone $$$ Seymour Place's Basque pintxos counter — the txuleta and the txakoli on the same Marylebone bar
El Pastor Coal Drops Yard Restaurant Restaurant Compare Taqueria Casual Mezcal El Pastor Coal Drops Yard King's Cross $$ Coal Drops Yard sit-down taqueria — al pastor on a vertical spit, the rebranded Casa Pastor
Em Sherif Restaurant Restaurant Compare Elegant Convivial Destination Em Sherif Knightsbridge $$$$ Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods — the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.
Fortnum & Mason Shop Shop Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen Fortnum & Mason Piccadilly $$$$ Piccadilly's 1707 grocery — the food hall, the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon, the hampers everyone takes home
Gökyüzü Restaurant Restaurant Compare Family Run Polished Diaspora Gökyüzü Harringay $$ The Yavuz family's Green Lanes flagship since 1999 — the polished mainstream of London Turkish
Happiness Forgets Bar Bar Compare Intimate Moody Convivial Happiness Forgets Hoxton $$$ Hoxton Square's basement — the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
Hawksmoor Spitalfields Restaurant Restaurant Compare Steakhouse Institution Group Dining Hawksmoor Spitalfields Spitalfields $$$$ The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously
Hedonism Wines Shop Shop Compare Fine Wine Rare Spirits Coravin Bar Hedonism Wines Mayfair $$$$ Davies Street's fine-wine and rare-spirits cathedral — Coravin tasting bar at the back
Hutong Restaurant Restaurant Compare Destination View Elegant Hutong London Bridge $$$$ Northern Chinese on level 33 of The Shard — the view-room and the dish where guests in town for a single weekend take their out-of-town parents.
J Sheekey Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen J Sheekey Covent Garden $$$ St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution — Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole
Jikoni Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Modern Cozy Jikoni Marylebone $$$ Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room — Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in
José Bar Bar Compare Lively Convivial Neighborhood José Bermondsey $$ Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011 — José Pizarro's pintxos counter
Kiln Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Fire Cooked Casual Kiln Soho $$ Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter — Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument
Kioku by Endo Restaurant Restaurant Compare Elegant View Destination Kioku by Endo Whitehall $$$$ Endo Kazutoshi's rooftop Japanese inside Raffles at the OWO — the operating Endo room while Endo at the Rotunda rebuilds after the 2025 fire.
La Fromagerie Shop Shop Compare Specialist Neighborhood Informed La Fromagerie Marylebone $$$ Moxon Street's cheese reference since 1992 — Patricia Michelson's affineur, walk-in tasting room
Lina Stores Restaurant Restaurant Compare Deli Casual Pasta Lina Stores Soho $$ Pistachio-green Soho deli since 1944 — pasta as Italian commute
Maison Bertaux Cafe Cafe Compare Classic Intimate Literary Maison Bertaux Soho $$ Greek Street's 1871 patisserie — London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs
Mangal 1 Ocakbaşı Restaurant Restaurant Compare Family Run Casual Loud Mangal 1 Ocakbaşı Dalston $$ The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990 — BYOB, walk-in only, untouched
Morito Exmouth Market Restaurant Restaurant Compare Lively Convivial Chef Driven Morito Exmouth Market Clerkenwell $$ Sam and Sam Clark's tapas-bar sister to Moro — eight metres along the same row, the small-plate version of the same kitchen.
Noble Rot Soho Restaurant Restaurant Compare Wine Led Historic Room Burgundy Deep Noble Rot Soho Soho $$$ The larger Greek Street sister — 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen
Opso Restaurant Restaurant Compare Modern Convivial Elegant Opso Marylebone $$$ Paddington Street modern Greek — sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.
Padella Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Compare Casual Queue Only Loud Padella Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ The fresh-pasta queue London actually accepts — Shoreditch sister of the Borough original
Raffles London at The OWO Hotel Hotel Compare New Iconic Elegant Raffles London at The OWO Whitehall $$$$ The 2023 conversion of the Old War Office on Whitehall — Mauro Colagreco's Michelin-starred Saison, a Guerlain spa, and the most ambitious new opening in the city.
Riding House Fitzrovia Cafe Cafe Compare Modern Convivial Lively Riding House Fitzrovia Fitzrovia $$$ Great Titchfield Street's all-day brasserie — the Fitzrovia office and the Sunday brunch in one room
Rules Restaurant Restaurant Compare Iconic Historic Elegant Rules Covent Garden $$$ London's oldest restaurant — Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.
Sager + Wilde Bar Bar Compare Natural Wine Industrial Neighbourhood Sager + Wilde Hackney $$ Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wildeve's Hackney Road wine bar — the East London natural-wine reference since 2013
Scott's Mayfair Restaurant Restaurant Compare See & Be Seen Iconic Seafood Scott's Mayfair Mayfair $$$$ Mount Street seafood and the city's most consequential lunch crowd — the Mayfair set-piece.
Smokestak Restaurant Restaurant Compare Loud Industrial Casual Smokestak Shoreditch $$$ David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse — the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to
Som Saa Restaurant Restaurant Compare Regional Chef Favourite Spicy Som Saa Spitalfields $$$ Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression — Spitalfields
St JOHN Restaurant Restaurant Compare Iconic Michelin Starred Chef Driven St JOHN Clerkenwell $$$ Fergus Henderson's nose-to-tail manifesto since 1994 — the white-walled Smithfield room that wrote modern British cooking.
Sumi Restaurant Restaurant Compare Sushi Casual Neighbourhood Sumi Notting Hill $$$ Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual — sushi without the omakase ceremony
Sushi Tetsu Restaurant Restaurant Compare Counter Only Destination Intimate Sushi Tetsu Clerkenwell $$$$ Seven seats, one chef, Edomae discipline — London's hardest reservation
Swift Soho Bar Bar Compare Chef Led Intimate Candlelit Swift Soho Soho $$$ Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room — aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below
The Beaumont Hotel Hotel Compare Intimate Elegant Art Deco The Beaumont Mayfair $$$$ Corbin and King's 1920s-styled Mayfair townhouse — a 73-room Art Deco hotel with an Antony Gormley sculpture you can sleep inside.
The Connaught Hotel Hotel Compare Iconic Elegant Intimate The Connaught Mayfair $$$$ The Mayfair townhouse hotel — three Michelin stars in the dining room, the world's best bar downstairs, and the address that defines W1.
The Cow Restaurant Restaurant Compare Lively Classic Cozy The Cow Notting Hill $$$ Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub — Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre
The Cross Keys Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Cozy Lively The Cross Keys Chelsea $$$ A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs
The Goring Hotel Hotel Compare Iconic Elegant Traditional The Goring Belgravia $$$$ The only hotel ever granted a royal warrant — fourth-generation family-owned in Belgravia, and the address that hosted Catherine Middleton the night before the wedding.
The Guinea Grill Restaurant Restaurant Compare Heritage Grill Room Old School The Guinea Grill Mayfair $$$ Mayfair mews chophouse since 1952 — beef Wellington and steak-and-kidney pie
The Lanesborough Hotel Hotel Compare Iconic Elegant Traditional The Lanesborough Knightsbridge $$$$ The Oetker Collection mansion at Hyde Park Corner — Regency interiors, a personal butler in every room, and Céleste under the cupola.
The Orange Restaurant Restaurant Compare Convivial Neighbourhood Elegant The Orange Pimlico $$$ Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms — wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.
The Pig's Ear Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Cozy Lively The Pig's Ear Chelsea $$$ The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub — Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu
The Quality Chop House Restaurant Restaurant Compare Historic Chef Driven Intimate The Quality Chop House Farringdon $$$ Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house — Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.
Theo Randall at the InterContinental Restaurant Restaurant Compare Hotel Restaurant Old School Wood Oven Theo Randall at the InterContinental Mayfair $$$$ River Café DNA, hotel-restaurant comfort — Tuscan cooking on Park Lane
Umu Restaurant Restaurant Compare Michelin One Star Intimate Elegant Umu Mayfair $$$$ Bruton Place Kyoto kaiseki — the discreet hidden door, the multi-course menu and the most considered Japanese dining in W1.
Veeraswamy Restaurant Restaurant Compare Iconic Elegant Historic Veeraswamy Mayfair $$$ Britain's oldest Indian restaurant — open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.
Wiltons Restaurant Restaurant Compare Iconic Institution Elegant Wiltons St James's $$$$ Since 1742 — Jermyn Street oysters, game in season, and a clubland Britain that has stopped existing almost everywhere else.