The Ultimate London Brunch Guide

The Best Places For Brunch In London | Last Updated 25th July ’21

Ever since our planet’s greatest scientists first discovered a meal between breakfast and lunch, no weekend morning has been complete without it.

Yes, whether you realise it or not, it’s brunch that’s been missing the most from your life over the past year and a half… And so now – in order to prevent you from ever having to suffer an incomplete weekend, ever again – we’ve casually updated our comprehensive list of only the very best brunch spots London has to offer.

Whether you’re looking for a boozy brunch, all-you-can-eat, or set menus anywhere in London…

…it’s riiight here.

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Want to cut to the chase? Find London’s best bottomless brunches here

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Central London Brunch

Christopher’s | Covent Garden

This melted chocolate and ice cream-smothered crunchy French toast will ruin all other forms of bread for you, forever. But it’s the most delicious sacrifice you’ll ever make. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Saturdays 11am-3pm, Sundays 11am-3.30pm
Address: 18 Wellington Street, WC2E 7DD | Visit their website
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Lantana | Fitzrovia, Old Street, London Bridge

Modelled after the Australian cafes that the owners used to frequent in Sydney, Lantana does delicious cocktails (everything from espresso martinis to the house Lantana Mule), solid brunches (courgette bread with halloumi, corn fritters, bubble & squeak with black pudding, etc.), and stellar coffee. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends 9am-4pm
Address: 13 Charlotte Place, W1T 1SN | Visit their website
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Hide | Mayfair 

Ironically, there is absolutely no hiding Hide’s excellence, particularly where brunch is concerned. Sure, the photos above just looks like a pain chocolat. And sure, at these prices it’s more of an investment than a meal out… but banana bread baked to order, followed by oysters and a Michelin-starred full English inside what essentially feels like the middle of an intricately carved oak tree, means it’s definitely one worth making. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekdays 7.30-10.15am, weekends, 9-11am
Address: 85 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 7NB | Visit their website
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Riding House Café | Fitzrovia

Break up with your current Sunday brunch ritual. The Riding House Café’s elaborate, modern European menu and industrial-chic design is a winner. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends 9am-4pm
Address: 43-51 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7PQ | Visit their website
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Jikoni | Marylebone

Considering its impeccable dining cred, Blandford Street is a real misnomer. Especially if you’re familiar with Ravinder Bhogal’s brunch at Jikoni, which involves piña colada pancakes; prawn toast scotch eggs; and tamarind-glazed bacon on fenugreek waffles…

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? Available | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Saturday 11am-3pm, Sunday 11am-4pm
Address: 19-21 Blandford Street, W1U 3DH | Visit their website
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Bombay Bustle | Mayfair

Bombay Bustle’s Sunday brunch is all about ‘Samosas, Dosas & Mimosas’… As well as cardamom bellinis served alongside huge, concave egg appams; masala scrambled eggs; and mango-topped pancakes; all in a rose-tinted dining room reminiscent of a Wes Anderson train carriage set. But, you know, that doesn’t rhyme so well. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Sundays 11am-3pm
Address: 29 Maddox Street, W1S 2PA | Visit their website
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Bon Vivant | Bloomsbury

Technically speaking, what BV serve is actually a ‘drunch’, because the French are so very laid back that dinner somehow makes its way into the equation too. Don’t worry though. You’ll still find pancakes and poached eggs alongside the burgers on the menu. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Saturdays 10.30am-4pm
Address: 75-77 Marchmont Street, WC1N 1AP | Visit their website
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Sketch | Mayfair

Served in an elegant room with hand-cut collaged wallpaper, Sketch’s brunch of berry waffles and tempura poached eggs is a work of art. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Fri, Sat & Sun, 9-11am
Address: 9 Conduit Street, W1S 2XG | Visit their website
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Fischer’s | Marylebone

An elegant, Viennese-style grand café tucked away in Marylebone, where you can while away a morning with the papers, a strong cup of coffee, and a plate of gröstl (a kind of Alpine bubble and squeak). READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? Available | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Breakfast from 7.30am Mon-Fri, 8am weekends; brunch, weekends 11.30am-5pm
Address: 50 Marylebone High Street, W1U 5HN | Visit their website
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Aqua Kyoto | Soho

Sushi brunch. With six courses. And infinite Champagne. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? No | Set menu? Yes | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends 12-2.45pm
Address: 30 Argyll Street, W1B 3BR | Visit their website
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The Breakfast Club | Soho & All Across Town

Hungover? Cure: the quintessential London brunch, courtesy of The Breakfast Club. One large BC coffee, one BC hangover smoothie, one BC club sandwich with extra guacamole. And one Bloody Mary, for good measure. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Not on weekends – but you can queue virtually with WalkUp
Timings: Daily, all day from 8am
Address: 33 D’Arblay Street, W1F 8EU | Visit their website
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The Wolseley | Mayfair

26 Grains | Covent Garden

26 Grains almost exclusively do porridge. And although that might not sound like a screaming endorsement, believe us when we say that it’s because they make the best porridge you’ve ever had, savoury or sweet. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? No
Timings: Weds-Sun, 9am-12pm
Address: 1 Neal’s Yard, WC2H 9ER | Visit their website
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Dean Street Townhouse | Soho

A thoroughly dignified spot for brunch in Soho, brought to you by the Soho House folk – who have quite correctly identified fish and chips as a ‘bite’. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? Available for Sunday roast | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends from 8am
Address: 69 – 71 Dean Street, W1D 3SE | Visit their website
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Flesh and Buns | Covent Garden/Oxford Circus

This is Sunday brunch, pan-Asian-style. Which here means Nutella croissant taiyaki (in the shape of a fish), Japanese fried wings, and crispy pig belly bao buns slathered with miso mustard. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? No | Set menu? Yes | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends at Oxford Circus, Sundays at Covent Garden
Address: 41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LX | Visit their website
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Berners Tavern | Fitzrovia

Berners Tavern is like a 1900s Edwardian film. Starring Jason Atherton. And cured salmon, scrambled eggs and caviar for brunch. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Daily, 7-10am
Address: 10 Berners Street, W1T 3NP | Visit their website
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Anya Cafe | Marylebone

You might think opening a café might be a stretch for a handbag designer, but Anya Hindmarch seems to have a handle on it. Beautifully retro, it serves Scottish croissants, Welsh rarebit and monster cakes.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? No
Timings: Weekdays & Saturdays from 8am, Sundays from 9am
Address: 9 Pont Street, SW1X 9EH | Visit their website
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Balans Soho | Soho

The best thing about having French toast with maple butter, lobster eggs benedict, and an absinthe fountain at 4am is that you can come back at noon, and have it all over again. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Daily from 10am-5am (1.30am Sundays)
Address: 60 – 62 Old Compton Street, W1D 4UG | Visit their website
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Ave Mario | Covent Garden

For the restaurant that goes maxi with everything else, Ave Mario’s brunch menu may seem a little short. But then again, when you’re serving scrambled eggs with caviar, you don’t need to offer much else. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends from 10am
Address: 15 Henrietta St, London WC2E 8QG | Visit their website
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Opso | Marylebone

Next time you’re craving Thessaloniki pastries filled with sweet semolina custard; scrambled eggs on koulouri milk bread; barrel-matured feta on toasted sourdough; or lotus cookie crumble pancakes with bananas and salted caramel, go to Greece. Or Opso. Whichever’s closer.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends 10am-4.15pm
Address: 10 Paddington Street, W1U 5QL | Visit their website

East London Brunch

Townsend | Whitechapel

Townsend had barely opened its doors when the city went into lockdown – so now it’s making up for lost time with a brand new breakfast service, including a kind of fancy McMuffin with sausage patty and fried duck egg; potato cake with egg and buttered girolles; and smoked salmon bagels from the famous Brick Lane Beigel round the corner. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends from 9am-12pm
Address: Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX | Visit their website
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The Pavilion Café | Victoria Park

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The Pav has been feeding Victoria Park’s strollers for over a decade, and for the past five years its Sri Lankan breakfast (with string hoppers, dahl and coconut sambol) has earned its place as an East London mainstay.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? No
Timings: Open weekdays from 7am, weekends from 8am
Address: Victoria Park, Old Ford Road, London E9 7DE | Visit their website
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The Vincent | Hackney

Vegetarians, rejoice – you’ll find a host of meat free options here, from vegeree to shakshuka (and even a vegan coffee White Russian). Plus, everyone else can rejoice over the 12hr pork hash, buttermilk fried chicken and waffle, and ‘eggs in hell’.

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends from 10am
Address: 2 Atkins Square, Dalston Lane, E8 1FN | Visit their website
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Hackney Coterie | Hackney

Newly opened Hackney Coterie sees your avocado on toast, and raises you this charcoal toast version with house pickles and pecan praline. Banana bread? Try that with a bacon crumb. Mushroom on toast? Needed this caramelised yoghurt. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends 10am-1pm
Address: 230B Dalston Lane, London, E8 1LA | Visit their website
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Daffodil Mulligan | Old Street

Lauded chef Richard Corrigan’s Irish restaurant gives a stellar Emerald Isle brunch of Irish beef rib with smoked bone marrow to share, smashed avo on warm soda bread, and, er, margaritas. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Saturdays 11.30am-2.30pm
Address: 70-74 City Road, London EC1Y 2BJ | Visit their website
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The Marksman | Hackney

London’s home of the roast just became home of the brunch, too. Dine on sophisticated brunch classics like treacle sourdough or smoked haddock kedgeree, or just cave and go for the wing rib with onion rings and fried eggs for two. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Saturdays, 11am-3.30pm
Address: 254 Hackney Road, London, E2 7SJ | Visit their website
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Cecconi’s Shoreditch | Shoreditch

A smartly dressed, sophisticated Italian spot from the Soho House family – the perfect place for a classy binge on waffles, eggs, and giant bowls of pasta for the table. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends from 8am
Address: 58-60 Redchurch Street, E2 7DP | Visit their website
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Hotbox | Shoreditch

Option 1: a bowl of cereal at home. Option 2: some smoked meat hash with a crispy fried egg and hot sauce, some truffled egg toast, and a fried chicken Belgian waffle at Hotbox. You choose. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Tues-Sun, 11.30am-2.30pm
Address: 46-48 Commercial Street, E1 6LT | Visit their website
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Ozone | Old Street, Bethnal Green

An all day Antipodean brunch joint that takes its coffee seriously (they roast the stuff in-house, and supply literally hundreds of other coffee shops and restaurants around the world). And to go with it? How does smoked aubergine omelette sound… READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekdays 7.30am-3pm, weekends 8.30am-4.30pm
Address: 11 Leonard St, London EC2A 4AQ | Visit their website
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Duck and Waffle | Liverpool Street

Saving you any decision-making by naming the restaurant after their best brunch dish, D&W seal the deal by serving it to you on the 40th floor, with one of the best views in the city. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Breakfast weekdays 7-11.30am, brunch on weekends & bank holidays 8am-5pm
Address: 110 Bishopsgate, EC2N 4AY | Visit their website
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Bounce | Shoreditch & Farringdon

Bottomless prosecco. Bottomless Yorkshire pudding pizzas. Bottomless ping pong. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? Yes | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends 12-4pm
Address: 241 Old Street, EC1V 9EY | 121 Farringdon, EC1N 2TD | Visit their website
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Bistrotheque | Bethnal Green

Bistrotheque brunch (accompanied by Xavior on piano) has a menu of almost a dozen brunch-only cocktails, and a slightly more condensed menu of dishes (pancakes, benedicts, etc.). So at least they have their priorities straight. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No, but you can order by the jug | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends 10.30am-3.30pm (live piano 12-3pm)
Address: 23-27 Wadeson Street, E2 9DR | Visit their website
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Bread Street Kitchen | Bank

For all his bluster, Gordon Ramsay simply does not f**k around when it comes to delivering a decent meal. And the brunch here is no exception. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Sundays 11am-2pm
Address: 10 Bread Street, One New Change, EC4M 9AJ | Visit their website
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Jones & Sons | Dalston

A legendary London brunch. Not only are the drinks bottomless, but the food is too. Enjoy infinite smoked salmon & scrambled eggs, waffles, pancakes, French toast, Benedicts, Full Englishes, and more. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? Yes | All you can eat? Yes | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Saturday 11am-5pm, Sunday 11am-1pm
Address: Stamford Works, 3 Gillett Street, N16 8JH | Visit their website
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Brunswick East | Dalston & Hackney Downs

An East London stalwart that keeps going from strength to strength. They’ve just opened a second branch that serves all the hits – chilli poached eggs with garlic yoghurt; Japanese savoury pancakes; fermented cherries on sourdough – you name it. And for the first time ever, you can currently book. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekdays (reduced brunch menu) 8.30am-4pm, weekends 9am-5pm
Address: Unit 3D Stamford Works, Gillett Street, N16 8JH | 47-317 Amhurst Terrace, Hackney Downs, E8 2BT | Visit their website
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Mildreds Dalston | Dalston (and Soho, Camden & King’s Cross)

Once you’ve made your way though a hearty plate of banana bread with candied coconut; a harissa egg & cheese omelette and smashed avo on sourdough, you probably won’t even notice that your entire meal was vegetarian. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings (Dalston): Weekends 9am-3pm
Address: 1 Dalston Square, E8 3GU | Visit their website
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Berber & Q | Haggerston

As one of the pre-eminent grilling spots in London, Berber & Q have made the wise decision to grill brunch, too – so you’ll find campfire roasted beets served with burnt baba ghanoush, honeyed feta and 8 minute eggs. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends 11am-3pm
Address: Arch 338 Acton Mews, E8 4EA | Visit their website
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Sager + Wilde | Bethnal Green

Sager + Wilde may not do bottomless prosecco – but they do use it in the dressing for their mouthwatering golden nectarine and burrata salad. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? Yes
Timings: Weekends 11am-3pm
Address: Arch 250 Paradise Row, E2 9LE | Visit their website
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North London Brunch

Sunday | Barnsbury, Belsize Park

Barnsbury might seem like a long way to go for brunch (unless you already live there, of course). But trust us, when you’re knee-deep in chilli beef with soft corn grits and fried eggs, that suddenly won’t seem to matter. READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? No
Timings: Tues-Fri 8.30am-5pm, weekends 9am-5pm
Address: 169 Hemingford Road, N1 1DA | Visit their website
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Jolene | Newington Green

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Finally, a place for die-hard fans of mixed wheat populations grown in regenerative farming ecosystems. Apparently that’s the secret behind Jolene’s fresh bakes every morning (currently available for takeaway only). READ MORE

Details: Bottomless booze? No | All you can eat? No | Set menu? No | Bookable? No
Timings: Tues-Sun from 9am
Address: 21 Newington Green, N16 9PU | Visit their website
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