40 Maltby Street Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Natural Wine No Reservations 40 Maltby Street Bermondsey $$$ A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches, chef Steve Williams Same category
Brawn Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Natural Wine Intimate Brawn Bethnal Green $$$ Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen Same category
Mangal II Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Family Run Intimate Chef Led Mangal II Dalston $$$ The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to Same category
Noble Rot Soho Restaurant Restaurant Compare Wine Led Historic Room Burgundy Deep Noble Rot Soho Soho $$$ The larger Greek Street sister, 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen Same category
Mangal 1 Ocakbaşı Restaurant Restaurant Compare Family Run Casual Loud Mangal 1 Ocakbaşı Dalston $$ The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990, BYOB, walk-in only, untouched Same category
Bocca di Lupo Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Classic Convivial Bocca di Lupo Soho $$$ Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep Same category
Barrafina Dean Street Restaurant Restaurant Compare Counter Dining Lively Casual Barrafina Dean Street Soho $$$ Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated, the Spanish bar London learned the format from Same category
Smokestak Restaurant Restaurant Compare Loud Industrial Casual Smokestak Shoreditch $$$ David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse, the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to Same category
Sager + Wilde Bar Bar Compare Natural Wine Industrial Neighbourhood Sager + Wilde Hackney $$ Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wildeve's Hackney Road wine bar, the East London natural-wine reference since 2013 Similar vibe
Mountain Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Modern Fire Cooked Mountain Soho $$$$ Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room, the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in Same category
Quo Vadis Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Historic Chef Led Classic Quo Vadis Soho $$$ Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026 Same category
Kiln Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Fire Cooked Casual Kiln Soho $$ Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter, Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument Same category
Andrew Edmunds Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Historic Romantic Intimate Andrew Edmunds Soho $$$ Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho Same category
BAO Soho Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Casual Counter Dining BAO Soho Soho $$ Erchen Chang and the Chung siblings' original Lexington Street bun counter, Bib Gourmand Taiwanese, queue-only on the corner Same category
Roka Charlotte Street Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare See & Be Seen Modern Convivial Roka Charlotte Street Fitzrovia $$$$ Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki, the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement Same category
Dorian Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Lively Modern Intimate Dorian Notting Hill $$$ Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026 Same category
Six Portland Road Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Classic Cozy Six Portland Road Holland Park $$$ The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to Same category
The Cow Restaurant Restaurant Compare Lively Classic Cozy The Cow Notting Hill $$$ Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre Same category
The Cross Keys Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Cozy Lively The Cross Keys Chelsea $$$ A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs Same category
The Pig's Ear Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Cozy Lively The Pig's Ear Chelsea $$$ The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu Same category