Behold

The Best Restaurants in London

8.5
Great
Restaurants | King's Cross

Bao Kings Cross Bubble tea and bao in kitschy retro surrounds.

8
Great
Restaurants | Bermondsey

Kin + Deum A brilliant family-run spot offering contemporary Thai food in a breezy, modern space.

8.5
Great
Restaurants | Tooting

Smoke & Salt Make a reservation for preservation: Tooting’s most inventive restaurant is all about pickling & curing.

9
Amazing
Restaurants | Notting Hil

The Shed Welcome to the first restaurant by the Gladwin Brothers, whose rural West Sussex upbringing is reflected in the food….

8
Great
Restaurants | Soho

Yauatcha It’s all about the dim sum here, and there’s a brain-boggling assortment of dumplings, buns, puffs, noodles & more….

10
Amazing
Restaurants | Farringdon

The Quality Chop House The Quality Chop House totally lives up to its name. It explains how its been feeding the residents of Farringdon, and those further afield, since 1896.

8.5
Great
Restaurants | Covent Garden

Rules You might know Rules as the (self-proclaimed) oldest restaurant in London.

8
Great
Restaurants | Soho

Cutter & Squidge A sweet pitstop in the backstreets of Soho.

7.5
Good
Restaurants | Southwark

Where The Pancakes Are A pancake palace offering everything from crepes to Dutch Babies, housed in a railway arch in Southwark.

8
Great
Bars | Battersea

Humble Grape Battersea A wine bar sharing its love of handcrafted, largely biodynamic wines produced from independent, sustainable vineyards.

8
Great
Restaurants | Liverpool Street

Walter and Monty Like an upmarket Subway, this City café allows you to build your own mouthwatering lunch, piece by piece.

8.5
Great
Restaurants | Soho

L’Escargot London’s first French eatery, going strong since 1896 with piano players and, yes, snails.

8
Great
Restaurants | Chelsea

Maze Grill Park Walk A sushi and grill restaurant from Gordon Ramsay.

7.5
Good
Restaurants | Soho

Dirty Bones Kingly Court Mac & cheese burgers, cocktails and rock’n’roll in an American diner-style spot in Soho.

7.5
Good
Restaurants | Brixton

Nanban A Brixton spot serving ramen and Japanese soul food in a former pie and eel shop.

8
Great
Restaurants | Soho

BAO Soho A small, slick Taiwanese street food-esque restaurant serving small plates, sides and steamed milk buns….

8
Great
Restaurants | Chelsea

The Five Fields British cooking using over 100 herbs and spices in an elegant, refined dining room in Chelsea.