I migliori ristoranti di London

Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian — one Michelin star held since 2012

Angela Hartnett's one-star Italian on Queen Street — the civilised Mayfair lunch the neighbourhood's regulars actually keep.

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred room — Charlotte Street since 1991, in its 35th anniversary year

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School — cooking is the only headline

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub — Fulham backstreets, game and wild food

The Berkeley's flagship dining room — Marcus Wareing's Belgravia anchor since 2014

Kinnerton Street's claret-walled tasting room — Gordon Ramsay's Belgravia one-star since 2010

Britain's oldest Indian restaurant — open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.

Endo Kazutoshi's rooftop Japanese inside Raffles at the OWO — the operating Endo room while Endo at the Rotunda rebuilds after the 2025 fire.

Bruton Place Kyoto kaiseki — the discreet hidden door, the multi-course menu and the most considered Japanese dining in W1.

Fergus Henderson's nose-to-tail manifesto since 1994 — the white-walled Smithfield room that wrote modern British cooking.

British ingredients, Mexican grammar — Santiago Lastra's Marylebone manifesto

Seven seats, one chef, Edomae discipline — London's hardest reservation

Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian — the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.

James Lowe's one-Michelin-star Shoreditch room — the founding text of the East London modern-British school.

Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship — modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling

Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026

Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001

Three Michelin stars in the panelled drawing room of Mayfair's most discreet hotel — the defining London fine-dining address.

Nineteen seats around a single counter, two Michelin stars, and a tasting menu that reads like a daily field report from British producers.

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship — whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking

Tom Sellers' two-Michelin-star tasting room — the chapter's South-Bank fine-dining anchor

Jonny Lake and Isa Bal's two-Michelin-star à la carte room — Fat Duck alumni at neighbourhood register

Andrew Wong's two-Michelin-star pan-regional Chinese on Wilton Road — the first Chinese restaurant outside Asia to hold two stars.

JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street — Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves.

Pierre Gagnaire's three-Michelin-star Mayfair drawing room — the most theatrical fine-dining address in W1.

Three Michelin stars on Park Lane — Ducasse's London flagship since 2010, run by Jean-Philippe Blondet.

Anne-Sophie Pic's two-Michelin-star Four Seasons dining room — the Valence three-star register, in the City.

Adam Byatt's two-Michelin-star Clapham Old Town room — the most considered cooking south-west of the river.

Rafael Cagali's two-Michelin-star tasting room inside the Town Hall Hotel — Bethnal Green's destination kitchen.

Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie — wood-fired grill, retained star 2026

Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site — the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit

The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to

Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room — Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub — Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre

A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs

The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub — Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu

The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection — Marylebone's quietest daytime room

Since 1742 — Jermyn Street oysters, game in season, and a clubland Britain that has stopped existing almost everywhere else.

Mount Street seafood and the city's most consequential lunch crowd — the Mayfair set-piece.

Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room — the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room — the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street — every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter — Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument

Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu — the last romantic room in old Soho

Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated — the Spanish bar London learned the format from

Erchen Chang and the Chung siblings' original Lexington Street bun counter — Bib Gourmand Taiwanese, queue-only on the corner

Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki — the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement

A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room — Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen

David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse — the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994 — the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990 — BYOB, walk-in only, untouched

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro — the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

The fresh-pasta queue London actually accepts — Shoreditch sister of the Borough original

A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches — chef Steve Williams

Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı — kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard

The Yavuz family's Green Lanes flagship since 1999 — the polished mainstream of London Turkish

UK's No.1 gastropub 2026 — the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it

Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub — Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling

The Cut's no-bookings gastropub — what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre

Piccadilly's grand café — the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper

St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution — Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole

Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café — the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast

Lowndes Street's Italian institution since 1995 — the Belgravia trattoria that taught London regional pasta

Langton Street's Tuscan trattoria since 1975 — Chelsea's Italian family room, fourth decade

Seymour Place's Basque pintxos counter — the txuleta and the txakoli on the same Marylebone bar

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.

London's oldest restaurant — Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.

Bloomsbury French — the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse.

Paddington Street modern Greek — sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.

Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods — the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.

Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team — clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.

Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie — the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.

Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room — the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.

Sam and Sam Clark's tapas-bar sister to Moro — eight metres along the same row, the small-plate version of the same kitchen.

Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house — Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.

Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms — wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.

The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously

River Café DNA, hotel-restaurant comfort — Tuscan cooking on Park Lane

Pistachio-green Soho deli since 1944 — pasta as Italian commute

Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road — house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch

Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression — Spitalfields

Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican — generous, regional, unfussy

Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual — sushi without the omakase ceremony

Mayfair mews chophouse since 1952 — beef Wellington and steak-and-kidney pie

Coal Drops Yard sit-down taqueria — al pastor on a vertical spit, the rebranded Casa Pastor

The larger Greek Street sister — 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen

P. Franco's successor at 107 Lower Clapton — a 25-cover wine shop with a hot plate at the back, chef residencies kept