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 $$$ Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep
Brat Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Wood Fire Intimate Brat Shoreditch $$$$ Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking
Cycene Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Intimate Modern Minimalist Cycene Shoreditch $$$$ A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline
Mangal II Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Family Run Intimate Chef Led Mangal II Dalston $$$ 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
Roka Charlotte Street Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare See & Be Seen Modern Convivial Roka Charlotte Street Fitzrovia $$$$ Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki, the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement
The French House Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Intimate Literary The French House Soho $$ Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s
3 Greek Street Bar Bar Compare Whisky Speakeasy Merchant Bar 3 Greek Street Soho $$$ Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door, Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024
Balthazar London Restaurant Restaurant Compare Lively Iconic Convivial Balthazar London Covent Garden $$$ 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
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.
Daylesford Notting Hill Cafe Cafe Compare Elegant Chill Classic Daylesford Notting Hill Notting Hill $$$ The organic Cotswold farm's Westbourne Grove farmshop and café, the audience's Saturday morning anchor
Dishoom Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Convivial Lively Dishoom Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ 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 $$ Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı, kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard
Gökyüzü Restaurant Restaurant Compare Family Run Polished Diaspora Gökyüzü Harringay $$ 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 $$$ Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
J Sheekey Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen J Sheekey Covent Garden $$$ St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole
Kiln Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Fire Cooked Casual Kiln Soho $$ Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter, Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument
La Fromagerie Shop Shop Compare Specialist Neighborhood Informed La Fromagerie Marylebone $$$ 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 $$ The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990, BYOB, walk-in only, untouched
Noble Rot Soho Restaurant Restaurant Compare Wine Led Historic Room Burgundy Deep Noble Rot Soho Soho $$$ 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
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.
Swift Soho Bar Bar Compare Chef Led Intimate Candlelit Swift Soho Soho $$$ Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below
The Cow Restaurant Restaurant Compare Lively Classic Cozy The Cow Notting Hill $$$ Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre
The Wallace Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Compare Elegant Chill Classic The Wallace Restaurant Marylebone $$$ The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection, Marylebone's quietest daytime room