BiBi Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Michelin One Star Chef Driven Modern BiBi Mayfair $$$$ Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian, the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.
Andrew Edmunds Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Historic Romantic Intimate Andrew Edmunds Soho $$$ Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho
Bocca di Lupo Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Classic Convivial Bocca di Lupo Soho $$$ Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep
Brat Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Wood Fire Intimate Brat Shoreditch $$$$ Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking
Cycene Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Intimate Modern Minimalist Cycene Shoreditch $$$$ A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline
Dorian Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Lively Modern Intimate Dorian Notting Hill $$$ Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026
Gymkhana Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Michelin Two Star Elegant Iconic Gymkhana Mayfair $$$$ JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street, Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves.
Mangal II Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Family Run Intimate Chef Led Mangal II Dalston $$$ The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to
Manteca Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Nose To Tail Wood Fire Buzzy Manteca Shoreditch $$$ Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road, house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch
Moro Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Iconic Chef Driven Convivial Moro Clerkenwell $$$ Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room, the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.
Mountain Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Modern Fire Cooked Mountain Soho $$$$ Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room, the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in
Quo Vadis Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Historic Chef Led Classic Quo Vadis Soho $$$ Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026
Roka Charlotte Street Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta See & Be Seen Modern Convivial Roka Charlotte Street Fitzrovia $$$$ Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki, the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement
The Anchor & Hope Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Convivial Lively The Anchor & Hope Waterloo $$ The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre
The Audley Public House Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant Artistic The Audley Public House Mayfair $$$ Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub, Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling
The Harwood Arms Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant Intimate The Harwood Arms Fulham $$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food
The Wolseley Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant See & Be Seen The Wolseley Piccadilly $$$ Piccadilly's grand café, the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper
107 Wine Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Chef Residency Natural Wine Tiny Room 107 Wine Lower Clapton $$$ P. Franco's successor at 107 Lower Clapton, a 25-cover wine shop with a hot plate at the back, chef residencies kept
Balthazar London Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Lively Iconic Convivial Balthazar London Covent Garden $$$ Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie, the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.
Barrafina Dean Street Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Counter Dining Lively Casual Barrafina Dean Street Soho $$$ Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated, the Spanish bar London learned the format from
Brawn Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Natural Wine Intimate Brawn Bethnal Green $$$ Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen
Cavita Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Modern Mexican Tortillas Mezcal Cavita Marylebone $$$ Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican, generous, regional, unfussy
Cora Pearl Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Clubby Elegant Cora Pearl Covent Garden $$$ Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team, clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.
Dishoom Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Convivial Lively Dishoom Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast
Diyarbakır Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Family Run Casual Diaspora Diyarbakır Restaurant Harringay $$ Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı, kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard
El Pastor Coal Drops Yard Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Taqueria Casual Mezcal El Pastor Coal Drops Yard King's Cross $$ Coal Drops Yard sit-down taqueria, al pastor on a vertical spit, the rebranded Casa Pastor
Em Sherif Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Elegant Convivial Destination Em Sherif Knightsbridge $$$$ Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods, the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.
Gökyüzü Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Family Run Polished Diaspora Gökyüzü Harringay $$ The Yavuz family's Green Lanes flagship since 1999, the polished mainstream of London Turkish
J Sheekey Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant See & Be Seen J Sheekey Covent Garden $$$ St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole
Kiln Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Fire Cooked Casual Kiln Soho $$ Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter, Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument
Lina Stores Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Deli Casual Pasta Lina Stores Soho $$ Pistachio-green Soho deli since 1944, pasta as Italian commute
Mangal 1 Ocakbaşı Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Family Run Casual Loud Mangal 1 Ocakbaşı Dalston $$ The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990, BYOB, walk-in only, untouched
Morito Exmouth Market Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Lively Convivial Chef Driven Morito Exmouth Market Clerkenwell $$ Sam and Sam Clark's tapas-bar sister to Moro, eight metres along the same row, the small-plate version of the same kitchen.
Noble Rot Soho Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Wine Led Historic Room Burgundy Deep Noble Rot Soho Soho $$$ The larger Greek Street sister, 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen
Opso Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Modern Convivial Elegant Opso Marylebone $$$ Paddington Street modern Greek, sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.
Smokestak Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Loud Industrial Casual Smokestak Shoreditch $$$ David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse, the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to
Som Saa Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Regional Chef Favourite Spicy Som Saa Spitalfields $$$ Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression, Spitalfields
Sumi Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Sushi Casual Neighbourhood Sumi Notting Hill $$$ Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual, sushi without the omakase ceremony
Sushi Tetsu Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Counter Only Destination Intimate Sushi Tetsu Clerkenwell $$$$ Seven seats, one chef, Edomae discipline, London's hardest reservation
The Cow Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Lively Classic Cozy The Cow Notting Hill $$$ Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre
The Guinea Grill Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Heritage Grill Room Old School The Guinea Grill Mayfair $$$ Mayfair mews chophouse since 1952, beef Wellington and steak-and-kidney pie
Veeraswamy Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Iconic Elegant Historic Veeraswamy Mayfair $$$ Britain's oldest Indian restaurant, open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.
Wiltons Restaurant Restaurant Confronta 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.