Greek restaurants in London
40 places
Agora
££Oma's ground floor, built around a rotisserie spit, with counter seats facing the grill. Skewers by the piece: pork souvlaki with oregano at £5, lamb adana with garlic yoghurt.
Alexander the Great
££A Greek taverna a few seconds' walk from Andy's, with a private dining room; the mixed meze for a group and the sheftalia are the orders.
Andy's Taverna
££An old-school Camden taverna doing meze for large tables at prices that explain its longevity.
Aphrodite Taverna
££Opened by a Cypriot chef and his wife in 1988, with every wall covered in plates, statuettes and gourds; kleftiko, spit-roast souvla, and meze for two or more from £30 a head.
Attica
££The Kolossi Grill of 1966, renamed by new owners: the mock-Palladian front painted deep blue, marble tables under fairy-lit twigs, and tarama, prawn saganaki and sea bass on a short menu.
Bottarga
£££The Pachamama group's second Greek restaurant, a small, dark room on the King's Road with a covered, heated terrace: raw yellowtail, a whole grilled sea bass, crisp lamb belly.
Clio
£££A 2026 opening on Chiltern Street, and the newest of the Marylebone Greek rooms.
Daphne
££A Greek-Cypriot restaurant on three floors run by the Lymbouri family since the 1980s, with photographs of Cypriot villages downstairs; the koubes are bulgur shells stuffed with lamb.
Dionysus
£A souvlaki house that began in the West End in the 1950s, closed there in 2009 and brought its sign to Southgate; the mixed souvlaki comes in Cypriot pitta.
Estiatorio Milos
££££The London branch, opened in 2015, of Costas Spiliadis's Greek fish restaurants: a marble-and-pale-wood room off Pall Mall where fish is priced by weight from an iced display.
Evi's
££Evi Peroulaki and Conor Mills ran the Souvlaki Street stall before opening this candlelit room off Lordship Lane, with pork skewers with fennel from the grill and an all-Greek wine list.
Fenix
£££The London branch of a Manchester restaurant, opened in March 2026 under chandeliers on Piccadilly: Athenian tartare, langoustine orzo, wagyu stifado.
Gaia
££££The 2023 London branch of a Greek-Mediterranean group from Dubai, Monaco and Doha: gemista, octopus and fava beside bluefin tuna with caviar, and a bar on the first floor.
Halepi
££A family-owned Greek-Cypriot taverna north of Hyde Park, where the owner tends a custom-built charcoal grill by the door, much as it has been since the 1960s.
Hera
£££A big room of chandeliers, greenery and plush booths on the far side of Stratford Cross, where chef Mario Salimis cooks Greek classics with modern twists.
Kima
££££Whole fish and Greek seafood cooking treated at fine-dining level, which almost nothing else in London does.
Krokodilos
£££A large bronze, peach and gold room from the group behind Wild Tavern, cooked by Angelos Togias, formerly of The Connaught; the wild goat is cooked for 14 hours and served for two.
Lagana
££Paper tablecloths, crayons on every table and flatbreads coming out of the oven non-stop, on the old Pachamama East site.
Lemonia
££A Primrose Hill taverna that has been feeding the same families for decades - big, noisy and entirely unbothered by fashion.
Maza
££££Greek mezze at Mayfair scale, from the OPSO team.
Mazi
£££Notting Hill Greek that treats the classics as a starting point rather than a checklist, with a garden at the back.
Meraki
£££A large Fitzrovia room from the Roka and Zuma group, doing Greek at that group's usual volume.
Myrtos
£££Asimakis Chaniotis left Pied à Terre after 13 years to open this bright room built around an olive tree, with a fish counter. Lunch is two courses for £25.
Nissi
££A narrow sit-down room, rare in Palmers Green, with the grill visible from the middle tables; Georgina Hayden takes her yiayia here for the fish meze.
Oma
££££Upstairs from its own more casual sibling at Borough Market, cooking Greek food over fire at serious prices and justifying them.
OPSO
£££Greek small plates reworked with restaurant technique - the room most responsible for London taking modern Greek cooking seriously.
Paneri Taverna
£Charcoal smoke, wicker chairs outside and regulars at the counter; the mix is a giant Cypriot pitta of salted pork souvlaki and sheftalia, with a dining room at the back for meze.
Pittagoras
£A gyros counter in Tooting Broadway Market run by the third generation of a Kefalonian restaurant family; the chicken gyros wrap comes with chips inside.
Pyro
£££Yiannis Mexis' first restaurant, built around an open fire - potato pittas with smoked aubergine and spiced feta before anything else.
Retsina
££A family-run Greek restaurant open for more than 30 years, more formal than most, with heavy tablecloths, meze feasts and a kleftiko Eater London called arguably the best in the city.
Suvlaki
£Skewers threaded on site every day and cooked over charcoal on a robata grill, by two founders from Athens; wraps are £9.50 to £10.
Suzi Tros
£££Mazi's sister two doors along, opened in 2019, with a menu that looks to Thessaloniki and northern Greece: smoked aubergine with red pepper cream, Grandmama's meatballs.
Taverna Ermou
££The London branch of a taverna from Ergon, the Athens food group: wooden beams, vintage ornaments, food on metal trays, and bougatsa custard pie with a freddo espresso for breakfast.
The Life Goddess
££Part deli, part taverna - you can buy the cheese you just ate, which is most of the appeal.
The Souvlaki
£Started on a stall in Kingston market by Valentinos Varelas and Sandy Tsagdi, who moved from Greece in 2014, and Just Eat's 2023 Greater London Takeaway of the Year.
Tony's Pita
£Opened in Swiss Cottage in 2018 by Tony Shyti, who learned to cook in Greek restaurants as a teenager, and named Best Greek Restaurant at the British Kebab Awards three years running.
Tsiakkos & Charcoal
££A Maida Vale back-street Cypriot grill that has not changed in decades and has no intention of doing so.
Vori
£££The only wine list in London built entirely on indigenous Greek varieties, in a Holland Park Avenue taverna with tables on the pavement.
Zephyr
£££From the Pachamama group, on Portobello Road - one of the most photographed rooms in west London, and the cooking holds up.
Zylia
£££A Greek-Cypriot taverna beside the Arcade food hall, opened in 2026 by Nick Molyviatis, who ran the kitchen at Kiln, and Barry Karacostas: whitewashed walls, framed lace doilies and an open charcoal grill.