The Anchor & Hope Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Convivial Lively The Anchor & Hope Waterloo $$ The Cut's no-bookings gastropub — what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre Stessa categoria
The Cow Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Lively Classic Cozy The Cow Notting Hill $$$ Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub — Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre Stessa categoria
Josephine Marylebone Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Elegant Classic Lively Josephine Marylebone Marylebone $$$ Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site — the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit Stessa categoria
The Audley Public House Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant Artistic The Audley Public House Mayfair $$$ Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub — Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling Stessa categoria
J Sheekey Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant See & Be Seen J Sheekey Covent Garden $$$ St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution — Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole Stessa categoria
The Harwood Arms Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant Intimate The Harwood Arms Fulham $$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub — Fulham backstreets, game and wild food Stessa categoria
Bocca di Lupo Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Classic Convivial Bocca di Lupo Soho $$$ Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street — every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep Stessa categoria
The Wolseley Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant See & Be Seen The Wolseley Piccadilly $$$ Piccadilly's grand café — the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper Stessa categoria
Dishoom Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Convivial Lively Dishoom Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café — the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast Stessa categoria
Balthazar London Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Lively Iconic Convivial Balthazar London Covent Garden $$$ Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie — the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in. Stessa categoria
Barrafina Dean Street Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Counter Dining Lively Casual Barrafina Dean Street Soho $$$ Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated — the Spanish bar London learned the format from Stessa categoria
Quo Vadis Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Historic Chef Led Classic Quo Vadis Soho $$$ Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room — the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026 Stessa categoria
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 Stessa categoria