BiBi Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Michelin One Star Chef Driven Modern BiBi Mayfair $$$$ Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian — the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.
Lyle's Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Michelin One Star Chef Driven Minimal Lyle's Shoreditch $$$$ James Lowe's one-Michelin-star Shoreditch room — the founding text of the East London modern-British school.
A. Wong Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Michelin Two Star Destination Chef Driven A. Wong Pimlico $$$$ Andrew Wong's two-Michelin-star pan-regional Chinese on Wilton Road — the first Chinese restaurant outside Asia to hold two stars.
Andrew Edmunds Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Historic Romantic Intimate Andrew Edmunds Soho $$$ Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu — the last romantic room in old Soho
Antepliler Baklava Shop Keuze van de redactie Shop Vergelijken Family Run Artisan Diaspora Antepliler Baklava Harringay $$ London's first authentic Antep baklavacı since 1993 — Murat Üstünsürmeli's Grand Parade pastry house
Bocca di Lupo Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Chef Led Classic Convivial Bocca di Lupo Soho $$$ Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street — every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep
Brat Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Chef Led Wood Fire Intimate Brat Shoreditch $$$$ Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship — whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking
Cycene Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Chef Led Intimate Modern Minimalist Cycene Shoreditch $$$$ A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School — cooking is the only headline
Dorian Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Lively Modern Intimate Dorian Notting Hill $$$ Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie — wood-fired grill, retained star 2026
Gymkhana Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Michelin Two Star Elegant Iconic Gymkhana Mayfair $$$$ JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street — Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves.
Josephine Marylebone Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Elegant Classic Lively Josephine Marylebone Marylebone $$$ Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site — the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit
KOL Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Michelin Destination Tasting Menu KOL Marylebone $$$$ British ingredients, Mexican grammar — Santiago Lastra's Marylebone manifesto
Mangal II Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Family Run Intimate Chef Led Mangal II Dalston $$$ The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994 — the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to
Manteca Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Nose To Tail Wood Fire Buzzy Manteca Shoreditch $$$ Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road — house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch
Mountain Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Chef Led Modern Fire Cooked Mountain Soho $$$$ Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room — the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in
Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bar Keuze van de redactie Bar Vergelijken Wine Led Bistro Magazine Room Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bloomsbury $$$ The wine-magazine bar — Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015
Quo Vadis Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Historic Chef Led Classic Quo Vadis Soho $$$ Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room — the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Elegant Intimate Classic Restaurant Gordon Ramsay Chelsea $$$$ Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001
Roka Charlotte Street Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken See & Be Seen Modern Convivial Roka Charlotte Street Fitzrovia $$$$ Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki — the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement
Ronnie Scott's Bar Keuze van de redactie Bar Vergelijken Classic Intimate Literary Ronnie Scott's Soho $$$ Frith Street's 1959 jazz room — the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps
Tayēr + Elementary Bar Keuze van de redactie Bar Vergelijken Modern Intimate Artistic Tayēr + Elementary Old Street $$$ World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half
The Anchor & Hope Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Classic Convivial Lively The Anchor & Hope Waterloo $$ The Cut's no-bookings gastropub — what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre
The Audley Public House Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Classic Elegant Artistic The Audley Public House Mayfair $$$ Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub — Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling
The Berkeley Hotel Keuze van de redactie Hotel Vergelijken Iconic Elegant Contemporary The Berkeley Knightsbridge $$$$ The Maybourne sister to Connaught and Claridge's — Wilton Place, a rooftop pool over Hyde Park, and a 2024 redesign that finally looks contemporary.
The Connaught Bar Bar Keuze van de redactie Bar Vergelijken Elegant Iconic Destination The Connaught Bar Mayfair $$$$ Agostino Perrone's silver-trolley martini and a room that has spent a decade at or near the top of the World's 50 Best Bars list.
The French House Bar Keuze van de redactie Bar Vergelijken Classic Intimate Literary The French House Soho $$ Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout — the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s
The Harwood Arms Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Classic Elegant Intimate The Harwood Arms Fulham $$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub — Fulham backstreets, game and wild food
The Peninsula London Hotel Keuze van de redactie Hotel Vergelijken New Elegant Destination The Peninsula London Belgravia $$$$ The billion-pound 2023 opening at Hyde Park Corner — Brooklands by Claude Bosi on the roof, and the most architecturally serious new hotel in W1 in decades.
The Wolseley Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Classic Elegant See & Be Seen The Wolseley Piccadilly $$$ Piccadilly's grand café — the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper
Trishna Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Elegant Modern Intimate Trishna Marylebone $$$ Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian — one Michelin star held since 2012