Some of the best restaurants in London can be found outside of central London and in its thriving neighbourhoods — but if you're looking for delicious eateries for dinner, it can be hard to know where to begin. Below, discover the definitive list of the best restaurants in London: our editors' personal London restaurant recommendations that we keep going back to in no particular order.
Some are relatively recent openings — hot-ticket, queue-worthy spots that instantly made waves, and earned a place on this list just months after firing up their hobs. Others are classics for a reason, and a couple of these London restaurants even made iterations of The World's 50 Best Restaurants read our reviews of winners Ikoyi and The Clove Club below. Whichever you pick, all of them are pioneers when it comes to what it means to eat well in London — from bombastic Indian flavours to kitchens pushing the boundaries of sustainability, and from blowout tasting menus to cheap eats you'll want to keep to yourself.
All have been reviewed by our team to make this list of London's best restaurants. For even more, check out our favourite restaurants with gardens , pub beer gardens and London rooftop bars. When choosing restaurants, our editors consider both high end and affordable eateries that offer an authentic and insider experience of a destination. We update this list regularly as new restaurants open and existing ones evolve. Cult snacks, brilliant cocktails, their own bread and charcuterie, and generous yet refined plates of heritage pork or lobster or trout make this a sensational destination with bags of charm.
Tabitha Joyce. The menu changes frequently snacks every week, larger plates depending on what ingredients look good with a rotation of fiery, no-frills dishes such as bavette steak rubbed with yaji dressing served with the requisite quarter-tomato as is custom, Rafal explains , and ekuru with pumpkin-seed pestou and Scotch bonnet sauce.
In , Chishuru won its first Michelin star. Anna Prendergast. A pint and packet of crisps downstairs, three courses, and good wine upstairs. Now we have The Devonshire, just off Piccadilly Circus. But another star of the show is the centrepiece wood-burning grill and oven at the far end of the dining room.
