BiBi Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Michelin One Star Chef Driven Modern BiBi Mayfair $$$$ Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian, the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.
A Bar with Shapes for a Name Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Modern Intimate Artistic A Bar with Shapes for a Name Haggerston $$$ Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road
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 $$$$ Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking
Core by Clare Smyth Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Elegant Intimate Modern Core by Clare Smyth Notting Hill $$$$ Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship, modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling
Cycene Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Intimate Modern Minimalist Cycene Shoreditch $$$$ A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline
Dorian Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Lively Modern Intimate Dorian Notting Hill $$$ Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026
Mangal II Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Family Run Intimate Chef Led Mangal II Dalston $$$ The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to
Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Wine Led Bistro Magazine Room Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bloomsbury $$$ The wine-magazine bar, Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015
Pied à Terre Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Elegant Intimate Pied à Terre Fitzrovia $$$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred room, Charlotte Street since 1991, in its 35th anniversary year
Ronnie Scott's Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Classic Intimate Literary Ronnie Scott's Soho $$$ Frith Street's 1959 jazz room, the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps
The French House Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Classic Intimate Literary The French House Soho $$ Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s
The Harwood Arms Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant Intimate The Harwood Arms Fulham $$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food
The Ledbury Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Elegant Intimate Modern The Ledbury Notting Hill $$$$ Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026
Trishna Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Elegant Modern Intimate Trishna Marylebone $$$ Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian, one Michelin star held since 2012
Da Terra Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Michelin Two Star Chef Driven Destination Da Terra Bethnal Green $$$$ Rafael Cagali's two-Michelin-star tasting room inside the Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green's destination kitchen.
Trinity Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Michelin Two Star Chef Driven Neighbourhood Trinity Clapham $$$$ Adam Byatt's two-Michelin-star Clapham Old Town room, the most considered cooking south-west of the river.
Black Rock Bar Bar Confronta Whisky No Frills Expert Led Black Rock Shoreditch $$$ Shoreditch's whisky reference, 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table
Brawn Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Natural Wine Intimate Brawn Bethnal Green $$$ Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen
Cora Pearl Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Clubby Elegant Cora Pearl Covent Garden $$$ Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team, clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.
Discount Suit Company Bar Bar Confronta Intimate Moody Convivial Discount Suit Company Aldgate $$$ Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope
Happiness Forgets Bar Bar Confronta Intimate Moody Convivial Happiness Forgets Hoxton $$$ Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
Jikoni Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Modern Cozy Jikoni Marylebone $$$ Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in
Maison Bertaux Cafe Cafe Confronta Classic Intimate Literary Maison Bertaux Soho $$ Greek Street's 1871 patisserie, London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs
Otto's Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Historic Chef Driven Otto's Bloomsbury $$$ Bloomsbury French, the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse.
Six Portland Road Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Classic Cozy Six Portland Road Holland Park $$$ The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to
Swift Soho Bar Bar Confronta Chef Led Intimate Candlelit Swift Soho Soho $$$ Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below
Tayēr + Elementary Bar Bar Confronta Modern Intimate Artistic Tayēr + Elementary Old Street $$$ World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half
The Wallace Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Elegant Chill Classic The Wallace Restaurant Marylebone $$$ The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection, Marylebone's quietest daytime room