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The Best Restaurants in London

Restaurants | Holborn

Holborn Dining Room Classic British fare served inside the expansive ex-banking hall of a Grade II Listed, Edwardian building.

Restaurants | Haggerston

Planque A wine-focused restaurant & members club in East London….

Restaurants | Leicester Square

J Sheekey An elegant, old-school seafood restaurant in the heart of Leicester Square, with intimate wood-panelled walls and romantic low lighting.

Restaurants | Fitzrovia

Mac & Wild Fitzrovia The home of Scottish food in London, with venison steaks, 120+ whiskies, and ‘haggis pops’.

Restaurants | Soho

Flat Iron Soho £10 Flat Iron steaks with creamed spinach and beef-dripping chips… it’s excessively good.

Restaurants | Soho

Brasserie Zédel A gilded French brasserie replete with cocktail bar and art deco entertainment venue, The Crazy Coqs.

Restaurants | Soho

Social Eating House A dimly lit beehive of bistro-esque activity, where wooden booths and leather banquettes are industrially cocooned by exposed brickwork and battered walls….

Restaurants | Covent Garden

The Delaunay From the people behind The Wolseley, The Delaunay is a Grand European Café in the finest tradition.

Restaurants | Fitzrovia

Kitchen Table A double Michelin-starred chef’s table hidden in another restaurant….

Restaurants | Southwark

Ev Restaurant An Anatolian restaurant, bakery and bar, under a set of Southwark railway arches.

Restaurants | Waterloo

Meson Don Felipe Authentic tapas in a longstanding Waterloo eatery.

Restaurants | Various

Barrafina London’s most important, Michelin-starred, tapas restaurant.

Restaurants | Covent Garden

Balthazar London A carbon copy of the NYC original, with marble clad pillars, an all-day brasserie menu, and excellent cocktails….

Restaurants | King's Cross

Caravan King’s Cross Here brunch, cocktails and an all day dining menu are served inside a vast melange of wood, metal and exposed brickwork: the kind of ‘working factory’ environment you’d be happy to do yoga in….

Restaurants | Aldgate

14 Hills It’s basically one big indoor garden.

Restaurants | Fitzrovia

The Riding House Café An all day brasserie in a surprisingly calm area of Fitzrovia….

Restaurants | Whitechapel

Tayyabs Tayyabs: a family-run institution, started in 1972 and currently plating up what is undoubtedly the best Punjabi-Pakistani cheerfully cheap curry in an ex-pub turned riotous BYO restaurant in Whitechapel.