Venues similar to Donostia

Moxon Street's cheese reference since 1992, Patricia Michelson's affineur, walk-in tasting room

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

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

Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011, José Pizarro's pintxos counter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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