The best seasonal in London
87 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.
64 Goodge Street
£££A Fitzrovia brasserie from the Woodhead group doing the format straight - steak frites, a long bar, and late service.
Akira at Japan House
£££Inside Japan House, sourcing directly from Japan where it can - the bento and donburi use produce that otherwise never reaches a London menu.
Akub
££££Fadi Kattan opened Fawda in Bethlehem before bringing Palestinian cooking to a Notting Hill townhouse - the first London kitchen to treat it as a fine-dining cuisine.
Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester
££££Classical French haute cuisine at three stars, including the Table Lumiere - a private table for six ringed by a curtain of fibre optics, and the single most requested seat in Mayfair.
Inside The Dorchester on Park Lane. Ask about the Table Lumiere specifically when booking; it is not offered by default.
All Roads
£££A Brixton residency that took a permanent site in May 2026, with a menu drawn from the founders' own heritage and travels.
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.
AngloThai
££££Thai cooking built on British seasonal produce rather than imported substitutes - the idea is in the name and it earned a Michelin star.
Aqua Shard
££££Floor-to-ceiling glass on the 31st floor of the Shard, with the atrium running up three storeys above the dining room.
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.
Berners Tavern
££££A vast Edwardian ballroom with every inch of wall covered in framed pictures - probably the most photographed dining room in London.
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.
Bouchon Racine
££££Henry Harris cooking unapologetic French bourgeois food above a Farringdon pub - and named the best restaurant in the UK at the 2026 National Restaurant Awards.
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.
Brooklands
££££Claude Bosi cooking on the roof of the Peninsula, in a room themed on British motor racing and aviation, looking over Hyde Park Corner.
Calong
£££Chef-owner Joo Won runs a blackboard menu that puts subtle Korean seasoning through European cooking - a bistro rather than a small-plates repeat.
Camille
£££A small Borough bistro doing offal, terrines and the unfashionable half of the French repertoire properly.
Casse-Croûte
£££Three dishes per course chalked on a board, a room the size of a front parlour, and no concession to anything but France.
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.
Clio
£££A 2026 opening on Chiltern Street, and the newest of the Marylebone Greek rooms.
Da Terra
££££Two stars inside a converted Bethnal Green town hall - Brazilian and Italian threads running through a fixed menu.
Darwin Brasserie
£££Inside the Sky Garden's glass dome at the top of the Walkie Talkie, surrounded by planting rather than just glass.
Sky Garden entry is free but ticketed; a restaurant booking gets you in without one.
Dorian
££££A Notting Hill butcher's shop turned bistro where the beef and the wine list are doing the talking.
Duck & Waffle
££££Forty floors up and open around the clock - the only place in London where you can watch the sun come up over the City with a plate in front of you.
Open 24 hours. Sunrise and late-night slots are the ones worth planning for.
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.
Gauthier Soho
££££Alexis Gauthier turned a classical French restaurant entirely vegan in 2021 - the same townhouse dining room, the same technique, no animal products at all. Very few kitchens at this level have made that switch.
Across several floors of a Soho townhouse, which makes it feel like eating in a private house. Tasting menus are the format.
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught
££££Three stars for cooking rooted in Darroze's native Landes, in south-west France - a regional French kitchen at the very top end, which London has almost none of.
Third star awarded in 2021. Inside The Connaught, so the room is the hotel's rather than a restaurant's own.
Holy Carrot
£££Plant-based cooking that also drops refined sugar and gluten, and eats like none of those are missing.
Ibai
££££Fire-led Basque cooking and some of the best beef in the country, from the team behind Donostia - a tribute to the original Ibai in San Sebastián.
Ikoyi
££££Two Michelin stars and a menu that uses West African pantry ingredients - grains, peppers, fermentation - without presenting itself as a heritage restaurant.
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.
Kol
££££Santiago Lastra cooks Mexican technique using British ingredients - no imported produce, which is the constraint the whole menu is built on.
La Poule au Pot
££££Trading since the 1960s on coq au vin, beef bourguignon and candlelight - the most reliably romantic dining room in London by some distance.
Les 2 Garçons
£££A Crouch End neighbourhood bistro that would pass without comment in Lyon and stands out considerably in north London.
Lore of the Land
£££Guy Ritchie's Fitzrovia pub, pouring beer from his own Gritchie Brewing Company - barley grown on his Wiltshire estate - with a more serious dining room upstairs than the bar downstairs suggests.
Two floors: a proper pub at street level, a restaurant above. The beer is the real tie-in rather than the decor.
Mazi
£££Notting Hill Greek that treats the classics as a starting point rather than a checklist, with a garden at the back.
Mour
£££All-day Mediterranean in Marylebone with a martini bar and a courtyard most people walking past would never know is there.
Naïfs
£££A seasonal vegan set menu on a quiet Peckham street, listed in the Michelin Guide - rare for an entirely vegan kitchen.
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.
OPSO
£££Greek small plates reworked with restaurant technique - the room most responsible for London taking modern Greek cooking seriously.
Ornella
£££Milanese cooking on Wilton Way from the team behind Roman-influenced Lupa in Highbury - a butter-yellow corner site done simply.
Otto's
££££Canard à la presse carved and pressed at the table - one of the last places in London performing classical French service as theatre.
OXO Tower Restaurant
££££A long terrace on the eighth floor looking straight across the Thames at St Paul's - the classic London river view, and it has been that for thirty years.
Paulette
£££A Maida Vale bistro doing short, seasonal French menus for a neighbourhood not overrun with them.
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.
Pique-Nique
£££The Casse-Croûte team in a former park pavilion in Bermondsey, built around rotisserie chicken and a short set menu.
Planque
£££Built around a members' wine cellar you can drink from - the food follows the bottle rather than the other way round.
Plates
££££The first fully vegan restaurant in Britain to win a Michelin star, awarded in 2025. Kirk Haworth cooks a tasting menu that treats vegetables with fine-dining technique rather than as a substitution exercise.
Run by Kirk Haworth with his sister Keeley. One open kitchen, floor-to-ceiling windows, polished concrete. Tables are released in batches and go quickly - this is the hardest vegan booking in the country.
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
££££Three Michelin stars held continuously since 2001, which makes it the longest-running three-star restaurant in London. A small Chelsea dining room rather than a grand one - the reputation is entirely the cooking.
Opened 1998, third star in 2001, and it has never lost it. Bookings open well ahead and go; the lunch menu is the cheapest way in. A quiet room rather than a scene.
Roe
£££Roe by Fallow at Wood Wharf, and the roast here is creator-backed rather than critic-backed - two video reviewers, no masthead.
Rosina
££££Adam Byatt spent two decades building a modern British reputation and then opened an Italian restaurant on the corner of Wandsworth Common.
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.
Sky Garden
£££A planted glass dome on top of 20 Fenchurch Street. Entry to the garden is free with a booked slot; the restaurants inside it are not.
The free-entry distinction is the thing readers get wrong. Free slots are released on a rolling window and go first.
Spring
££££Skye Gyngell's dining room in the New Wing of Somerset House - a nineteenth-century drawing room in blonde wood and blush, under a porcelain petal installation by Valeria Nascimento.
One of the few rooms on this list where the cooking is cited as often as the setting.
Tavern
£££The Restaurant St Barts team took over the old Nest site and brought part of their own kitchen brigade with them.
Teal by Sally Abé
££££Sally Abé's first solo restaurant, named after the game bird rather than the colour - British ingredients, British food history, and a stated commitment to the people who supply it.
Tendril
£££Vegetable-led cooking a minute off Regent Street that behaves like a neighbourhood restaurant, with real technical skill on texture.
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 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 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 Cow
££The sit-down alternative to the Westfield food court, with a terrace - which in Stratford is a genuinely short list.
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 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 French House
£££The Soho pub that was the Free French headquarters in the war, with a small dining room above it and beer served only in halves downstairs.
The Gate
£££Opened in 1989 in a former artists' studio and still the most serious vegetarian cooking in west London - Indo-Iraqi-Jewish influences from the founding brothers rather than a generic meat-free menu.
Hammersmith is the flagship, in a high-ceilinged studio space. Also in Islington (370 St John Street) and Marylebone. Long-standing enough that it predates almost everything else on this list.
The Gun
£££A Grade II listed early nineteenth-century pub on the Thames at Coldharbour, looking across at the O2 - a genuine old building in an area that has almost none left.
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 Ivy Chelsea Garden
£££A walled garden behind the King's Road, dressed seasonally, with a conservatory for the months it is too cold to sit outside.
A chain, and the article says so - the garden is the reason it is here, not the kitchen.
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 Turk's Head
££A neighbourhood bistro running French classics at prices that have not followed the postcode.
The Victory
£££Franklins on Lordship Lane relaunched under its original name, with British ingredient-led cooking pushed through a modern French bistro lens.
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.
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.
Tokyo Sukiyaki-Tei
£££A wagyu specialist doing sukiyaki and shabu-shabu - hotpot cooked at the table, which almost nowhere else in London offers properly.
Trinity
££££Clapham Old Town's Michelin star, with a more relaxed room upstairs - the same kitchen at two different prices.
Umu
££££Kaiseki in the Kyoto tradition - a fixed seasonal progression rather than a sushi counter, which makes it the odd one out among Mayfair's Japanese rooms.
Vesper
£££Jackson Boxer on Exmouth Market with cold martinis and British comfort food - the 240g beef burger is limited and has been known to sell out in seconds.
The burger is capped daily and goes almost immediately after service opens.
Zylia
£££A Queen's Park neighbourhood Greek doing small plates well enough to draw people from outside the postcode.
If everything else is full
Reliable rather than remarkable. These are chains — worth knowing about when you need somewhere open, not worth a journey.
Bread Street Kitchen
£££Gordon Ramsay's all-day format - a steak, a burger and a long opening span. The reliable option rather than the interesting one, and it turns up wherever a new development does.