BiBi Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Michelin One Star Chef Driven Modern BiBi Mayfair $$$$ Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian — the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.
Lyle's Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Michelin One Star Chef Driven Minimal Lyle's Shoreditch $$$$ James Lowe's one-Michelin-star Shoreditch room — the founding text of the East London modern-British school.
Sketch (The Lecture Room and Library) Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Michelin Three Star Destination Iconic Sketch (The Lecture Room and Library) Mayfair $$$$ Pierre Gagnaire's three-Michelin-star Mayfair drawing room — the most theatrical fine-dining address in W1.
A Bar with Shapes for a Name Bar Keuze van de redactie Bar Vergelijken Modern Intimate Artistic A Bar with Shapes for a Name Haggerston $$$ Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road
American Bar at The Savoy Bar Keuze van de redactie Bar Vergelijken Classic Elegant See & Be Seen American Bar at The Savoy Strand $$$$ The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
Andrew Edmunds Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Historic Romantic Intimate Andrew Edmunds Soho $$$ 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 $$$$ Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship — whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking
Core by Clare Smyth Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Elegant Intimate Modern Core by Clare Smyth Notting Hill $$$$ Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship — modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling
Cycene Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Chef Led Intimate Modern Minimalist Cycene Shoreditch $$$$ A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School — cooking is the only headline
Dorian Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Lively Modern Intimate Dorian Notting Hill $$$ Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie — wood-fired grill, retained star 2026
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
Pied à Terre Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Chef Led Elegant Intimate Pied à Terre Fitzrovia $$$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred room — Charlotte Street since 1991, in its 35th anniversary year
Quo Vadis Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Historic Chef Led Classic Quo Vadis Soho $$$ Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room — the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026
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 $$$ World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half
The Devonshire Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Lively Classic See & Be Seen The Devonshire Soho $$$ UK's No.1 gastropub 2026 — the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it
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 Ledbury Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Elegant Intimate Modern The Ledbury Notting Hill $$$$ Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026
Trishna Restaurant Keuze van de redactie Restaurant Vergelijken Elegant Modern Intimate Trishna Marylebone $$$ Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian — one Michelin star held since 2012
Da Terra Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Michelin Two Star Chef Driven Destination Da Terra Bethnal Green $$$$ Rafael Cagali's two-Michelin-star tasting room inside the Town Hall Hotel — Bethnal Green's destination kitchen.
Trinity Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Michelin Two Star Chef Driven Neighbourhood Trinity Clapham $$$$ Adam Byatt's two-Michelin-star Clapham Old Town room — the most considered cooking south-west of the river.
107 Wine Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Chef Residency Natural Wine Tiny Room 107 Wine Lower Clapton $$$ P. Franco's successor at 107 Lower Clapton — a 25-cover wine shop with a hot plate at the back, chef residencies kept
3 Greek Street Bar Bar Vergelijken Whisky Speakeasy Merchant Bar 3 Greek Street Soho $$$ Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door — Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024
Balthazar London Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Lively Iconic Convivial Balthazar London Covent Garden $$$ Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie — the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.
BAO Soho Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Chef Led Casual Counter Dining BAO Soho Soho $$ Erchen Chang and the Chung siblings' original Lexington Street bun counter — Bib Gourmand Taiwanese, queue-only on the corner
Bar Italia Cafe Cafe Vergelijken Heritage Late Night No Bookings Bar Italia Soho $ Frith Street since 1949 — the espresso bar Soho is built around
Barrafina Dean Street Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Counter Dining Lively Casual Barrafina Dean Street Soho $$$ Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated — the Spanish bar London learned the format from
Black Rock Bar Bar Vergelijken Whisky No Frills Expert Led Black Rock Shoreditch $$$ Shoreditch's whisky reference — 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table
Brawn Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Chef Led Natural Wine Intimate Brawn Bethnal Green $$$ Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro — the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen
Cavita Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Modern Mexican Tortillas Mezcal Cavita Marylebone $$$ Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican — generous, regional, unfussy
Cora Pearl Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Intimate Clubby Elegant Cora Pearl Covent Garden $$$ Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team — clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.
Daylesford Notting Hill Cafe Cafe Vergelijken Elegant Chill Classic Daylesford Notting Hill Notting Hill $$$ The organic Cotswold farm's Westbourne Grove farmshop and café — the audience's Saturday morning anchor
Discount Suit Company Bar Bar Vergelijken Intimate Moody Convivial Discount Suit Company Aldgate $$$ Wentworth Street's unmarked basement — the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope
Dishoom Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Classic Convivial Lively Dishoom Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café — the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast
Diyarbakır Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Family Run Casual Diaspora Diyarbakır Restaurant Harringay $$ Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı — kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard
Donostia Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Specialist Convivial Informed Donostia Marylebone $$$ Seymour Place's Basque pintxos counter — the txuleta and the txakoli on the same Marylebone bar
El Pastor Coal Drops Yard Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Taqueria Casual Mezcal El Pastor Coal Drops Yard King's Cross $$ Coal Drops Yard sit-down taqueria — al pastor on a vertical spit, the rebranded Casa Pastor
Gökyüzü Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Family Run Polished Diaspora Gökyüzü Harringay $$ The Yavuz family's Green Lanes flagship since 1999 — the polished mainstream of London Turkish
Happiness Forgets Bar Bar Vergelijken Intimate Moody Convivial Happiness Forgets Hoxton $$$ Hoxton Square's basement — the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
Hawksmoor Spitalfields Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Steakhouse Institution Group Dining Hawksmoor Spitalfields Spitalfields $$$$ The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously
J Sheekey Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Classic Elegant See & Be Seen J Sheekey Covent Garden $$$ St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution — Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole
Jikoni Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Intimate Modern Cozy Jikoni Marylebone $$$ Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room — Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in
Kiln Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Chef Led Fire Cooked Casual Kiln Soho $$ Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter — Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument
La Fromagerie Shop Shop Vergelijken Specialist Neighborhood Informed La Fromagerie Marylebone $$$ Moxon Street's cheese reference since 1992 — Patricia Michelson's affineur, walk-in tasting room
Lina Stores Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Deli Casual Pasta Lina Stores Soho $$ Pistachio-green Soho deli since 1944 — pasta as Italian commute
Maison Bertaux Cafe Cafe Vergelijken Classic Intimate Literary Maison Bertaux Soho $$ Greek Street's 1871 patisserie — London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs
Mangal 1 Ocakbaşı Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Family Run Casual Loud Mangal 1 Ocakbaşı Dalston $$ The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990 — BYOB, walk-in only, untouched
Noble Rot Soho Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Wine Led Historic Room Burgundy Deep Noble Rot Soho Soho $$$ The larger Greek Street sister — 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen
Opso Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Modern Convivial Elegant Opso Marylebone $$$ Paddington Street modern Greek — sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.
Otto's Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Intimate Historic Chef Driven Otto's Bloomsbury $$$ Bloomsbury French — the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse.
Padella Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Casual Queue Only Loud Padella Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ The fresh-pasta queue London actually accepts — Shoreditch sister of the Borough original
Riding House Fitzrovia Cafe Cafe Vergelijken Modern Convivial Lively Riding House Fitzrovia Fitzrovia $$$ Great Titchfield Street's all-day brasserie — the Fitzrovia office and the Sunday brunch in one room
Rules Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Iconic Historic Elegant Rules Covent Garden $$$ London's oldest restaurant — Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.
Sager + Wilde Bar Bar Vergelijken Natural Wine Industrial Neighbourhood Sager + Wilde Hackney $$ Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wildeve's Hackney Road wine bar — the East London natural-wine reference since 2013
Six Portland Road Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Intimate Classic Cozy Six Portland Road Holland Park $$$ The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to
Smokestak Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Loud Industrial Casual Smokestak Shoreditch $$$ David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse — the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to
Som Saa Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Regional Chef Favourite Spicy Som Saa Spitalfields $$$ Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression — Spitalfields
Sumi Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Sushi Casual Neighbourhood Sumi Notting Hill $$$ Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual — sushi without the omakase ceremony
Swift Soho Bar Bar Vergelijken Chef Led Intimate Candlelit Swift Soho Soho $$$ Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room — aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below
The Cow Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Lively Classic Cozy The Cow Notting Hill $$$ Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub — Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre
The Wallace Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Vergelijken Elegant Chill Classic The Wallace Restaurant Marylebone $$$ The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection — Marylebone's quietest daytime room