Core by Clare Smyth Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Intimate Modern Core by Clare Smyth Notting Hill $$$$ Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship — modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling Same category
Pied à Terre Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Elegant Intimate Pied à Terre Fitzrovia $$$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred room — Charlotte Street since 1991, in its 35th anniversary year Same category
The Ledbury Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Intimate Modern The Ledbury Notting Hill $$$$ Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026 Same category
Trishna Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Modern Intimate Trishna Marylebone $$$ Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian — one Michelin star held since 2012 Same category
The Harwood Arms Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant Intimate The Harwood Arms Fulham $$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub — Fulham backstreets, game and wild food Same category
BiBi Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin One Star Chef Driven Modern BiBi Mayfair $$$$ Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian — the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021. Same category
American Bar at The Savoy Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen American Bar at The Savoy Strand $$$$ The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads Similar vibe
J Sheekey Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen J Sheekey Covent Garden $$$ St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution — Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole Same category
Trinity Restaurant Restaurant Compare Michelin Two Star Chef Driven Neighbourhood Trinity Clapham $$$$ Adam Byatt's two-Michelin-star Clapham Old Town room — the most considered cooking south-west of the river. Same category
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Michelin Three Star Intimate Hélène Darroze at The Connaught Mayfair $$$$ Three Michelin stars in the panelled drawing room of Mayfair's most discreet hotel — the defining London fine-dining address. Same category
A. Wong Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin Two Star Destination Chef Driven A. Wong Pimlico $$$$ Andrew Wong's two-Michelin-star pan-regional Chinese on Wilton Road — the first Chinese restaurant outside Asia to hold two stars. Same category
Kioku by Endo Restaurant Restaurant Compare Elegant View Destination Kioku by Endo Whitehall $$$$ Endo Kazutoshi's rooftop Japanese inside Raffles at the OWO — the operating Endo room while Endo at the Rotunda rebuilds after the 2025 fire. Same category
Sketch (The Lecture Room and Library) Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin Three Star Destination Iconic Sketch (The Lecture Room and Library) Mayfair $$$$ Pierre Gagnaire's three-Michelin-star Mayfair drawing room — the most theatrical fine-dining address in W1. Same category
La Dame de Pic London Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin Two Star Elegant Destination La Dame de Pic London City of London $$$$ Anne-Sophie Pic's two-Michelin-star Four Seasons dining room — the Valence three-star register, in the City. Same category
Josephine Marylebone Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Classic Lively Josephine Marylebone Marylebone $$$ Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site — the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit Same category
Restaurant Story Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Elegant Modern Minimalist Restaurant Story Bermondsey $$$$ Tom Sellers' two-Michelin-star tasting room — the chapter's South-Bank fine-dining anchor Same category
Trivet Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Elegant Wine Led Trivet Bermondsey $$$$ Jonny Lake and Isa Bal's two-Michelin-star à la carte room — Fat Duck alumni at neighbourhood register Same category
The Wolseley Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen The Wolseley Piccadilly $$$ Piccadilly's grand café — the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper Same category
Gymkhana Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin Two Star Elegant Iconic Gymkhana Mayfair $$$$ JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street — Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves. Same category
Quo Vadis Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Historic Chef Led Classic Quo Vadis Soho $$$ Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room — the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026 Same category