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The Best Restaurants in London

8.6

Restaurants | Bermondsey

Bermondsey Larder Robin Gill’s light and airy Bermondsey restaurant, which in many ways is basically The Dairy 2.0….

8.5

Restaurants | King's Cross

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

8.0

Restaurants | Bermondsey

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

8.5

Restaurants | Tooting

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

8.6

Restaurants | Notting Hil

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

8.0

Restaurants | Soho

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

9.3

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

Restaurants | Covent Garden

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

8.0

Restaurants | Soho

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

7.5

Restaurants | Southwark

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

8.0

Bars | Battersea

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

8.0

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

Restaurants | Soho

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

8.0

Restaurants | Chelsea

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

7.5

Restaurants | Soho

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

8.0

Restaurants | Soho

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

8.0

Restaurants | Chelsea

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