Restaurant in London

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline

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

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre

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

Piccadilly's grand café, the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper

P. Franco's successor at 107 Lower Clapton, a 25-cover wine shop with a hot plate at the back, chef residencies kept

Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie, the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.

Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team, clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.

Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast

Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı, kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard

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

The Yavuz family's Green Lanes flagship since 1999, the polished mainstream of London Turkish

Northern Chinese on level 33 of The Shard, the view-room and the dish where guests in town for a single weekend take their out-of-town parents.

St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole

Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter, Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument

Pistachio-green Soho deli since 1944, pasta as Italian commute

The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990, BYOB, walk-in only, untouched

The larger Greek Street sister, 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen

David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse, the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to

Seven seats, one chef, Edomae discipline, London's hardest reservation

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre

Mayfair mews chophouse since 1952, beef Wellington and steak-and-kidney pie

The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection, Marylebone's quietest daytime room