The best roast in London
39 places
Anchor & Hope
££On The Cut by the Young Vic, long-running, and rarely bookable - it holds most of the room back for walk-ins, which is why the queue starts early.
Barge East
£££A 1985 Dutch barge sailed over and permanently moored on the River Lea, with a garden alongside it and the Olympic Park skyline behind.
Blacklock
££Chops pressed under a vintage Blacklock iron AND a proper dry-aged steak list from £16, at prices that undercut every other chophouse in central London.
Blacklock
££Chops pressed under a vintage Blacklock iron AND a proper dry-aged steak list from £16, at prices that undercut every other chophouse in central London.
Blacklock
££Chops pressed under a vintage Blacklock iron AND a proper dry-aged steak list from £16, at prices that undercut every other chophouse in central London.
Blacklock
££Chops pressed under a vintage Blacklock iron AND a proper dry-aged steak list from £16, at prices that undercut every other chophouse in central London.
Blacklock
££Chops pressed under a vintage Blacklock iron AND a proper dry-aged steak list from £16, at prices that undercut every other chophouse in central London.
Clapton Country Club
££Sunday lunch with live jazz in an old tram shed, which Time Out puts at #28 and calls a classy alternative to the pub version.
Hawksmoor
££££British beef dry-aged and grilled over charcoal, in rooms that were mostly something else first - a brewery, a bank, a ballroom.
Hawksmoor
££££British beef dry-aged and grilled over charcoal, in rooms that were mostly something else first - a brewery, a bank, a ballroom.
Hawksmoor
££££British beef dry-aged and grilled over charcoal, in rooms that were mostly something else first - a brewery, a bank, a ballroom.
Hawksmoor
££££British beef dry-aged and grilled over charcoal, in rooms that were mostly something else first - a brewery, a bank, a ballroom.
Hawksmoor
££££British beef dry-aged and grilled over charcoal, in rooms that were mostly something else first - a brewery, a bank, a ballroom.
Hawksmoor
££££British beef dry-aged and grilled over charcoal, in rooms that were mostly something else first - a brewery, a bank, a ballroom.
Hobbs Roast
£Roast pork with stuffing and apple sauce in a baguette, plus turkey and salt beef versions - a Sunday lunch reduced to something you can eat walking.
Lutyens Grill
££££The old bank manager's office at The Ned, serving rare-breed Longhorn and Hereford off a carving trolley wheeled to the table.
Roe
£££Roe by Fallow at Wood Wharf, and the roast here is creator-backed rather than critic-backed - two video reviewers, no masthead.
Simpson's in the Strand
££££Roasts carved from silver trolleys at the table, in a dining room that has been doing exactly that since the 1820s.
The Baring
££Seventeenth in the country in the 2026 Estrella Damm Top 50, and in The Infatuation's description more sit-down restaurant than pub you can drink in.
The Bull & Last
££A Highgate Road pub on the edge of Hampstead Heath, 39th in the UK gastropub rankings.
NOT the same pub as The Bull, which is also in Highgate and also on this list. Different sites, different owners - keep the two rows distinct.
The Captain Kidd
££A converted warehouse laid out like a ship's hull, named for the pirate hanged a few yards away, with the biggest river terrace in Wapping.
The Clarence Tavern
££A Stoke Newington gastropub that The Infatuation rates equally for a slap-up meal and for a few pints and a nibble, which is rarer than it sounds.
The Crosse Keys
£The former headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, opened 1913 - marble columns, a glass-domed ceiling and a banking hall the length of the room, at Wetherspoon prices.
Opens at 08:00 on weekdays for breakfast. Order at the bar or through the app; there is no table service by default and no music, which is the house style rather than an off day.
The Drapers Arms
££A Barnsbury pub carried by both the extended gastropub ranking and The Infatuation, and the easiest table in Islington on a Sunday.
The Fox & Pheasant
££An 1846 back-street Chelsea pub bought by James Blunt and his wife Sofia in 2017 and restored rather than reinvented - two small bars, a garden, and pub cooking done properly.
Hidden on a residential street behind the Fulham Road, which is most of the appeal. The Sunday roast is the meal to come for.
The George
££A boozy downstairs and a dining room above it, both serving the roast. Not The George Inn in Borough, which is a different pub and a different meal.
The Grapes
££A narrow Thames-side pub trading for roughly five centuries, part-owned by Sir Ian McKellen. Dickens drank here and put it into Our Mutual Friend as the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters.
Owned in partnership by Ian McKellen, the director Sean Mathias and Evgeny Lebedev. Tiny - the back balcony over the river seats very few and fills early.
The Hero of Maida
££Twenty-fourth in the country in the 2026 Estrella Damm Top 50, and named by no London roast list at all - a ranked pub the guides have missed.
The Holly Bush
££A 1807 pub up an alley off Heath Street with panelled rooms, open fires and no through traffic - the most convincing surviving village pub in London.
The Kerfield Arms
££Twenty-fifth in the country in the 2026 Estrella Damm Top 50 - the higher-ranked Camberwell pub, and the less famous one.
The Ledger Building
£An 1800 dock building on West India Quay that once held the West India Docks ledgers, with a colonnaded front and a quayside terrace - and by some distance the cheapest place to eat or drink at Canary Wharf.
On West India Quay, a footbridge from the Canary Wharf towers and next to the Museum of London Docklands, which is free - the two make an easy pairing. Order at the bar or by app.
The Macbeth
££Time Out's fourth-best Sunday lunch in London, and it calls the thing a rowdy Portuguese luncheon in a revamped Hoxton boozer.
The Montpelier
££A Peckham corner local where the Sunday roast comes with a live jazz trio from 7.30pm - the current kitchen residency (Rocco) grills whole fish and shucks some of the better oysters in South London the rest of the week.
Jazz is SUNDAYS ONLY, from 7.30pm - the rest of the week is quiz nights and DJs. The kitchen is a residency and changes hands, so check who is cooking before recommending the food specifically.
The Roebuck
££Directly opposite the protected view from Richmond Hill - people buy a pint and carry it across the road to the wall, which is the accepted way to do it.
The Town of Ramsgate
££A pub on this spot since at least 1545, long and narrow, opening onto a small river terrace beside Wapping Old Stairs and Execution Dock.
The Victory
£££Franklins on Lordship Lane relaunched under its original name, with British ingredient-led cooking pushed through a modern French bistro lens.
The Wells Tavern
£££The village's proper sit-down dinner pub, halfway between Hampstead and the Heath, and the one locals book for a occasion rather than a pint.
The White Cross
££On the towpath where the river regularly comes over the road and floods the entrance - there are tide tables on the wall and wellingtons by the door.
Turner's Old Star
£An 1830 back-street local that JMW Turner is said to have owned and run for a mistress - the last plain, unrenovated pub left in Wapping.