Top Rated
Whether you're planning a special evening or a spontaneous outing, these are the venues our editors consistently recommend for Date Night in London. Each one has been personally vetted for atmosphere, quality, and experience.
Our editors' ranked picks for London:Core by Clare Smyth, The Ledbury, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Trishna, Dorian.
| # | Venue | Neighborhood | Price | Why it makes the list |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Core by Clare Smyth | Notting Hill | $$$$ | Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship, modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling |
| 2 | The Ledbury | Notting Hill | $$$$ | Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026 |
| 3 | Restaurant Gordon Ramsay | Chelsea | $$$$ | Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001 |
| 4 | Trishna | Marylebone | $$$ | Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian, one Michelin star held since 2012 |
| 5 | Dorian | Notting Hill | $$$ | Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026 |
| 6 | Josephine Marylebone | Marylebone | $$$ | Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site, the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit |
| 7 | Six Portland Road | Holland Park | $$$ | The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to |
| 8 | Jikoni | Marylebone | $$$ | Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in |
| 9 | Mountain | Soho | $$$$ | Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room, the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in |
| 10 | Quo Vadis | Soho | $$$ | Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026 |
Notting Hill
Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship, modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling
Notting Hill
Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026
Chelsea
Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001
Marylebone
Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian, one Michelin star held since 2012
Notting Hill
Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026
Marylebone
Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site, the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit
Holland Park
The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to
Marylebone
Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in
Soho
Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room, the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in
Soho
Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026
Soho
Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep
Soho
Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho
Soho
Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below
Fitzrovia
Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki, the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement
Shoreditch
Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking
Clerkenwell
A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room, Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen
Dalston
The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to
Bethnal Green
Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen
Strand
The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
Bankside
Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window
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