Modern European restaurants in London
32 places
130 Primrose Hill
£££A charity-led restaurant that recruits people with experience of homelessness and pays them through accredited training - with Monica Galetti as executive chef.
Open all day, every day. 50 covers, with salads and sandwiches at lunch.
All Roads
£££A Brixton residency that took a permanent site in May 2026, with a menu drawn from the founders' own heritage and travels.
Bob Bob Ricard
££££Booth-only, art deco throughout, and a Press for Champagne button at every table - the gimmick that launched a thousand photographs.
Bonheur by Matt Abé
££££Matt Abé left Restaurant Gordon Ramsay to open his first solo room, and it took two Michelin stars within three months - about as fast as that has happened in London.
Brasserie of Light
££££A crystal-encrusted Damien Hirst pegasus hangs over the room inside Selfridges - subtlety is not the objective.
Brawn
£££One of the rooms that brought natural wine to London, on Columbia Road, and back in the Top 100 after more than a decade.
Chez Bruce
££££A Michelin star overlooking Wandsworth Common rather than a west end street - the definitive London argument that fine dining does not need a postcode.
Da Terra
££££Two stars inside a converted Bethnal Green town hall - Brazilian and Italian threads running through a fixed menu.
Dorian
££££A Notting Hill butcher's shop turned bistro where the beef and the wine list are doing the talking.
Elliot's
£££A Borough Market wine bar that is not trying to be a pizzeria and still turns out one of the pizzas people cross London for.
Filed under pizza because that is what the pizza lists name it for; the menu is a small-plates and wine list first. Do not send someone here expecting a pizzeria.
Frog by Adam Handling
££££A Michelin-starred tasting menu built around zero waste - trimmings from one course become the next, and it is stated rather than hidden.
Julie's
££££A warren of small rooms and alcoves in Holland Park, named by Prix Versailles among the most beautiful restaurants in the world after its relaunch.
Kitchen Table
££££Two Michelin stars cooked at a horseshoe counter with no menu given out in advance - you are told each course as it is put in front of you.
Lilibet's
££££Ross Shonhan went from exec chef at Nobu to founding Bone Daddies, and has now opened a full-dress Mayfair seafood room - an unusual arc.
Mae + Harvey
££A corner cafe on Roman Road with a menu that changes weekly - Turkish eggs, house-cured salmon, roast plum pancakes - rather than a fixed brunch list repeated all year.
Mour
£££All-day Mediterranean in Marylebone with a martini bar and a courtyard most people walking past would never know is there.
No. Forty Nine
£££Morning pastries through to late European wine on St John's Wood High Street - the Cinder team running a bakery, a bistro and a wine bar out of one corner site.
One Club Row
£££Hidden up a staircase above a busy Shoreditch pub - pork schnitzel with gorgonzola and mustard, and a rice pudding creme brulee to finish.
Peninsula Restaurant
££££Floor-to-ceiling glass looking straight across the river at the Canary Wharf towers - the best dining-room view in southeast London and Michelin-recognised.
Perilla
£££A Newington Green room that has quietly been one of the best neighbourhood restaurants in London for years, and is back in the Top 100.
Petersham Nurseries
££££Lunch inside a working plant nursery, under glass and surrounded by what is for sale - the setting is the entire proposition and nothing in London repeats it.
Lunch-led. The Richmond site and the Covent Garden one are different propositions - check which you are booking.
Planque
£££Built around a members' wine cellar you can drink from - the food follows the bottle rather than the other way round.
Porte Noire
£££Idris Elba's wine bar with co-founder David Farber, at the foot of the Gasholders building by the canal - around 800 wine bins and one of the larger fine wine rooms in London.
Bar, shop and tasting room in one, so you can drink in or take a bottle away. Charcuterie and small sharing plates rather than a full menu.
Row on 5
££££Jason Atherton's flagship, named for the 'refinement of work' - Spencer Metzger cooks British produce with a French hand, down to turbot with its own liver in the sauce.
Sessions Arts Club
££££A crumbling former courthouse left deliberately unrestored - peeling plaster, enormous windows, and no attempt to make it look finished.
The Cocochine
££££Larry Jayasekara cooking inside a Mayfair townhouse owned by the gallerist behind Hamiltons - the art on the walls is the collection, not decoration.
The Dysart
££££A Michelin star at the gates of Richmond Park, in an Arts and Crafts building, on a menu that changes with what Kenneth Culhane can actually get.
The Laundry
£££A former Edwardian laundry off Coldharbour Lane, running from breakfast through to dinner with a wine shop attached - the kitchen genuinely does not stop.
Food served all day and into the evening, so it works at the awkward hours most neighbourhood restaurants do not cover.
The Waterway
£££One of the largest canal-side terraces in London, right on the water at Little Venice, and the first thing in the area to fill up on a warm weekend.
Tollington's
£££Ed McIlroy of Four Legs took over an old Finsbury Park chip shop and put a 25-dish Iberian small-plates menu in it, smoked eel omelette included.
Trinity
££££Clapham Old Town's Michelin star, with a more relaxed room upstairs - the same kitchen at two different prices.
Trivet
££££Two stars from a chef and a master sommelier working as equals - the wine list is the other half of the proposition, not an accessory.