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The Best Restaurants in London

Restaurants | Soho

Flat Iron Denmark St Dear Vegetarians. This does not inherently regard you. What it does inherently regard is great steak, at affordable prices.

Restaurants | Chelsea

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

Restaurants | Shoreditch

Oklava An intimate, delightful Turkish eatery tucked away in East London, it’s filled with a restaurant-length open kitchen and bespoke grill, and features seasonally changing sharing plates.

Restaurants | Soho

Hoppers Soho’s iconic Sri Lankan eatery.

Restaurants | Covent Garden

Kanada-Ya Kanada-Ya serves up extremely good ramen. Plus sakes and Japanese whiskeys to wash it down with, in clean, minimalist surroundings.

Restaurants | Angel

MEATliquor N1 A temple to excess, meat and booze.

Restaurants | Brixton

Nanban A Brixton spot serving ramen and Japanese soul food in a former pie and eel shop with exposed brick walls and dining booths on wheels.

Restaurants | Notting Hill

Casa Cruz A bamboozling warren of copper, velvet, and mirrored walls, serving Argentinian dishes.

Restaurants | Covent Garden

Cafe Murano Covent Garden A more relaxed outpost of Angela Hartnett’s Michelin-starred Murano.

Restaurants | Covent Garden

The Black Penny We don’t usually write about coffee shops. Because most of them don’t have food like this….

Restaurants | Soho

BAO Soho A small, slick Taiwanese street food-esque restaurant serving small plates, sides and steamed milk buns in the heart of Soho, run immaculately by a husband and wife head chef team.

Restaurants | Bethnal Green

Hill & Szrok A local organic butcher by day, Hill & Szrok transforms by night into a cozy, intimate and relaxed cookshop where you’ll see exactly where your meat comes from and talk directly to the chefs as they prepare it.

Restaurants | Chelsea

The Ivy Chelsea Garden A deeply romantic garden restaurant tucked away on the King’s Road.

Restaurants | Marylebone

The Golden Hind Never take anything you find in the newspaper too seriously. Unless it’s fish and chips from The Golden Hind: Marylebone’s more than 100 year old, family run, BYO chippy.

Restaurants | Chelsea

Medlar Michelin-starred seasonal cuisine in an understated dining room.

Restaurants | Shoreditch

Rochelle Canteen A subtly secret restaurant from Melanie Arnold and Margot Henderson with a daily changing menu and located inside the repurposed bike shed of an old Victorian Era schools grassy playground.

Restaurants | Clerkenwell

Sushi Tetsu Essentially this is a seven person Japanese dinner party hosted by husband and wife duo Toru and Harumi Takahashi at their nondescript Clerkenwell restaurant, which in reality, seems much more like a family home.