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Practical London guides tagged Dining.

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A red-rimmed bowl of Yuzu Tonkotsu at Bone Daddies, seen from above, with fried pork belly, bamboo shoots, beansprouts, spring onion and a halved soy egg in pale pork broth

Food and drink

The Best Ramen in London: Tonkotsu, Chicken Broth and Brothless Bowls

Where to eat ramen in London by broth style: pork-bone tonkotsu, chicken paitan, brothless abura soba, halal and vegan bowls, with menu prices and booking rules.

  • Restaurants
  • Ramen
  • Japanese restaurants
  • Noodles
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The white stucco front of Lemonia on Regent's Park Road, a former pub with tall arched windows, iron balconies and green awnings over pavement tables

Food and drink

The Best Greek Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List and Review of the Year

Modern Greek dining rooms, Camden tavernas, Greek-Cypriot Palmers Green and souvlaki counters: London's Greek restaurants ranked by how many independent sources name them, in English and in Greek.

  • Restaurants
  • Greek restaurants
  • Greek Cypriot
  • Souvlaki
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A high dining room on the 38th floor of Heron Tower, with arched bamboo poles and hanging plants overhead, orange velvet banquettes and floor-to-ceiling windows over London

Food and drink

The Best Fusion Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List and Review of the Year

Japanese-Italian, Indo-Chinese, Nikkei, Korean-European and Mexican-Japanese: London's fusion restaurants sorted by the pairing and ranked by how many independent sources name them.

  • Restaurants
  • Fusion restaurants
  • Nikkei
  • Indo-Chinese
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Sisig served on a black cast-iron sizzling plate: chopped crisp pork with spring onions, a drizzle of mayonnaise, a raw egg yolk set in the centre and a wedge of lime

Food and drink

The Best Filipino Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List and Review of the Year

The best Filipino restaurant in London: Donia, a Bib Gourmand off Carnaby Street, then Belly Bistro, Panadera and banana-leaf feasts in Earl's Court.

  • Restaurants
  • Filipino
  • Asian
  • Dining
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A rooftop restaurant terrace with white-clothed tables and rattan chairs under furled parasols, climbing greenery along the parapet and City buildings beyond

Food and drink

The Best Rooftop and Riverside Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

Not our opinion. Every rooftop and riverside restaurant here is ranked by how many independent awards, critics and reviewers name it — and by whether the kitchen is worth the lift.

  • Restaurants
  • Rooftop
  • Riverside
  • Outdoor dining
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A Peruvian dining room hung with a dense ceiling installation of pink, blue and cream threads, with terracotta pendant lamps and woven rattan chairs below

Food and drink

The Best Peruvian Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

The best Peruvian restaurant in London depends on the scene: Lima, the only one ever Michelin-starred, Coya for a night out, Tierra Peru for the locals' pick.

  • Restaurants
  • Peruvian restaurants
  • Nikkei
  • Ceviche
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The gold mosaic ceiling and bronze relief friars inside the Blackfriar, with carved mottoes set into the marble walls

Food and drink

London's Historic Pubs and Dining Rooms

A 1667 warren off Fleet Street, a Thames pub trading five centuries, a banking hall and an old Westminster library — the London rooms worth going to for the room.

  • Pubs
  • Historic pubs
  • British food
  • London history
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Afternoon tea at the Dorchester: a tiered stand of finger sandwiches and pastries on floral china, with champagne flutes on a pink and gold table setting

Food and drink

The Best Afternoon Tea in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

London's afternoon teas compared — where the ritual began, which have a dress code, which work with children, and which are worth the money.

  • Afternoon tea
  • Restaurants
  • Hotels
  • Dining
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The Marksman on Hackney Road, a tiled pub frontage with its name in gold above the windows

Food and drink

The Best Gastropubs in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

Thirty independent sources across 126 London pubs. Which kitchens the awards, critics and reviewers agree on, which rooms take bookings, and which ones shut on Mondays.

  • Pubs
  • Gastropubs
  • Restaurants
  • British food
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Buttermilk-fried chicken tenders on a metal tray lined with branded paper, with cheese-covered fries alongside

Food and drink

The Best Fried Chicken in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

One judged championship, the sources that name each place, and the awkward fact that the champion appears on no editorial list. What each place fries, and where.

  • Restaurants
  • Cheap eats
  • Dining
  • Korean restaurants
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The green awnings and frontage of L'Escargot on Greek Street

Food and drink

The Best French Restaurants in London

Duck pressed at your table, unapologetic bourgeois cooking above a Farringdon pub, and two of London's six three-star kitchens.

  • Restaurants
  • French restaurants
  • Fine dining
  • Bistro
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A parade of kosher shops on Golders Green Road - Kay's, signed 'the home of kosher food', with Kay's Plus and the Leveyuson fishmonger alongside - below Tudor-revival flats, with traffic passing on the road in front

Food and drink

Kosher Restaurants in London: The Certified List, and How to Read It

Four authorities license London's kosher restaurants and each publishes a different list. What is on them, why meat and dairy sit next door to each other, and where to look in Stamford Hill.

  • Restaurants
  • Kosher
  • Dining
  • Planning
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The counter of a Japanese restaurant with stacked plates and handwritten menu boards

Food and drink

The Best Japanese Restaurants in London: Omakase to Ramen

London's Japanese restaurants by format — seven-seat omakase counters, charcoal yakitori, izakaya small plates and ramen — with what each actually costs.

  • Restaurants
  • Japanese restaurants
  • Sushi
  • Ramen
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A tray of sliced beef brisket with a black bark and a pink smoke ring, glazed pork ribs and pulled pork, with pickles and a pot of sauce on a wooden table

Food and drink

The Best Barbecue in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

Fifteen independent sources and no judged award: what each London smokehouse cooks, and when they are shut.

  • Restaurants
  • Barbecue
  • American restaurants
  • Dining
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Bowls of hummus, muhammara and labneh with flatbread on a stone table

Food and drink

The Best Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean Restaurants in London

Levantine mezze, Palestinian and Syrian kitchens, Persian and Kurdish cooking — arranged by tradition, with the best cheap falafel in London.

  • Restaurants
  • Middle Eastern
  • Lebanese
  • Turkish restaurants
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A cup of thick Italian hot chocolate dusted with cocoa, the cup lined with melted chocolate that has run down the outside and pooled on the saucer

Food and drink

The Best Hot Chocolate in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

Eight venues named by two or more independent sources, with what each one actually pours and what it costs — plus the widely-shared list a third of which has closed.

  • Restaurants
  • Cafes
  • Chocolate
  • Dining
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Meat flaming on a Korean barbecue grill surrounded by dishes of banchan

Food and drink

The Best Korean Restaurants in London and New Malden

One of Europe's largest Korean communities is thirty minutes from Waterloo — charcoal grills, fried chicken and home cooking along three New Malden streets, plus the central options.

  • Restaurants
  • Korean restaurants
  • Asian food
  • Dining
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A divided steel hot pot on a table burner, one half red with chilli and Sichuan pepper, the other a clear broth with cabbage, corn and rice cakes

Food and drink

The Best Hot Pot in London, and How to Order One if You Never Have

The best hot pot (hotpot) in London: Haidilao is named by seven of 17 sources, Chilli Cool and Shu Xiang Ge lead the independents. Budget £25 to £40 a head.

  • Restaurants
  • Chinese restaurants
  • Asian food
  • Dining
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A cheeseburger with a slice of melted cheese, pink pickled onion and lettuce in a glazed bun, next to a metal bucket of thick-cut chips

Food and drink

The Best Burgers in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List and Award of the Year

Not our opinion. Every burger here is ranked by how many independent awards, critics and reviewers name it — and by what the National Burger Awards judges actually cooked against.

  • Restaurants
  • Burgers
  • Cheap eats
  • American restaurants
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Tacos al pastor topped with onion and coriander, with lime wedges alongside

Food and drink

The Best Mexican Restaurants in London

Mexican technique on entirely British ingredients, grasshopper guacamole in Bermondsey, and a Walthamstow stall pressing its own tortillas.

  • Restaurants
  • Mexican restaurants
  • Tacos
  • Dining
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The frontage of Bocca di Lupo on Archer Street in Soho

Food and drink

The Best Italian Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major Guide and Award of the Year

Not our opinion. Every restaurant here is ranked by how many independent awards, critics and reviewers name it — then split by region, by price, and by the rooms worth booking for the room alone.

  • Restaurants
  • Italian restaurants
  • Pasta
  • Pizza
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A fruits de mer platter at The Seafood Bar: oysters, mussels, clams, langoustines, a crab claw, smoked salmon and dressed crab on ice

Food and drink

The Best Seafood Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major Guide and Award of the Year

Not our opinion. Every restaurant here is ranked by how many independent guides, awards and reviewers name it — from 1742 oyster houses to £2 happy hours.

  • Restaurants
  • Seafood
  • Oysters
  • Fish
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Thai curry and a stir-fry served in blue patterned bowls on a wooden table

Food and drink

The Best Thai Restaurants in London: Isaan, Southern and Live Fire

London's Thai kitchens arranged by the region they actually cook — Isaan sour-and-fermented, Southern curry-over-rice, and the UK's only Michelin-starred Thai restaurant.

  • Restaurants
  • Thai restaurants
  • Asian food
  • Dining
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Red and gold lanterns strung in rows above Gerrard Street in London's Chinatown

Food and drink

The Best Chinese Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major Guide of the Year

Not our opinion. Every restaurant here is ranked by how many independent guides and awards name it — Sichuan, Shaanxi, Uyghur and Cantonese, kept apart rather than filed under one word.

  • Restaurants
  • Chinese restaurants
  • Dim sum
  • Thai restaurants
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Street food counters in Camden Market, including a focaccia stall and a burrito stall

Food and drink

Cheap Eats in London: Places to Eat Well Under £15

Where to eat well in London on a budget — a £3.95 pizza in Fitzrovia, £5 kati rolls in Covent Garden, and the cash-only chippy east London votes for.

  • Restaurants
  • Cheap eats
  • Budget travel
  • Street food
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A plate of battered fish with thick hand-cut chips and a side salad at a Greenwich chip shop

Food and drink

The Best Fish and Chips in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major Guide and Award of the Year

Not our opinion. Every chippy here is ranked by how many independent guides, awards and reviewers name it — from beef dripping in Bloomsbury to matzo meal in West Hampstead.

  • Restaurants
  • Fish and chips
  • British food
  • Cheap eats
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A pastrami sandwich with pickles and salad in a soft bun, cut in half

Food and drink

The Best Sandwiches in London: Salt Beef, Sandos and Toasties

A 24-hour salt beef beigel on Brick Lane, a Borough Market cheese toastie sold three days a week, and the Marylebone deli that has been cutting sandwiches into triangles since 1900.

  • Sandwiches
  • Cheap eats
  • Delis
  • Breakfast
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A full English breakfast of fried eggs, sausage, bacon, beans, grilled tomato and a field mushroom at The Table Cafe in Southwark

Food and drink

The Best Breakfast and Brunch in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List and Review of the Year

From a bacon naan roll to a 24-hour fry-up forty floors up — London breakfast and brunch, with what each costs and which need booking.

  • Restaurants
  • Breakfast
  • Brunch
  • Cafes
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Bamboo steamers of prawn dumplings and other dim sum on a dark table

Food and drink

The Best Dim Sum in London: Every Room Compared, With What to Order

The best dim sum in London and Chinatown: Royal China on Baker Street, a two-Michelin-starred lunch at A. Wong, trolley-era Joy King Lau, and who serves all day.

  • Restaurants
  • Dim sum
  • Chinese restaurants
  • Chinatown
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A traditional ice cream van painted cream and pink parked beside a red telephone box on the cobbles at Covent Garden, its menu board covered in cones and lollies

Food and drink

The Best Ice Cream in London: Gelato, Soft Serve and Cult Queues

London's best gelaterias, the Clapham queue that stretches to the tube, a Filipino ube parlour, and the vegan oat-milk maker in a Crystal Palace courtyard that opens two days a week.

  • Ice cream
  • Gelato
  • Dessert
  • Cheap eats
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The dark frontage and pavement tables of Copita on d'Arblay Street in Soho

Food and drink

The Best Spanish Restaurants in London: Tapas to Basque Asador

Aged Galician beef over coals, a standing-room sherry bar with a handful of stools, and suckling pig roasted upstairs — London's Spanish kitchens by region.

  • Restaurants
  • Spanish restaurants
  • Tapas
  • Dining
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A flat iron steak sliced on a wooden board with creamed spinach and beef dripping chips

Food and drink

The Best Steak in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major Guide and Ranking of the Year

Not our opinion. Every restaurant here is ranked by how many independent awards, critics and reviewers name it.

  • Restaurants
  • Steak
  • Steakhouse
  • British restaurants
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The Buns from Home shopfront, cream painted with the name in yellow lowercase lettering above a window counter

Food and drink

The Best Bakeries in London: 24 Worth Queuing For

The ten London bakeries named among Britain's best for 2026, the queues locals actually join, and a Portuguese custard tart institution that has been on Golborne Road since 1984.

  • Bakeries
  • Pastries
  • Breakfast
  • Cheap eats
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The corner shopfront of Rosslyn Coffee on London Wall, with two customers on the outside bench holding takeaway cups

Food and drink

The Best Coffee in London: 18 Roasters and Counters

London's best independent coffee — the roaster trading since 1978, a counter inside a Victorian lavatory, and beans roasted inside prisons.

  • Coffee
  • Cafes
  • Breakfast
  • Cheap eats
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A New Haven-style pepperoni pizza at Crisp in Mayfair, its crust blistered and charred dark at the edge, topped with cupped pepperoni, tomato and spoonfuls of ricotta, on a metal pan

Food and drink

The Best Pizza in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List and Review of the Year

Not our opinion. Every pizzeria here is ranked by how many independent awards, critics and reviewers name it.

  • Restaurants
  • Pizza
  • Italian restaurants
  • Cheap eats
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A table of Indian curries and accompaniments at a Brick Lane restaurant

Food and drink

The Best Indian Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major Guide and Award of the Year

Not our opinion. Every restaurant here is ranked by how many independent awards, critics and reviewers name it.

  • Restaurants
  • Indian restaurants
  • Indian food
  • Vegetarian restaurants
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Floor-to-ceiling wine racks packed with bottles along a bare brick wall at Diogenes the Dog, with a small round table and bar stools on a wooden floor

Food and drink

The Best Wine Bars in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

Fifteen independent sources across 158 wine bars. Which ones the critics actually agree on, what a bottle costs if you drink it where you bought it, and the award that almost never goes to a wine bar.

  • Bars
  • Wine
  • Restaurants
  • Dining
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The dining room at Circolo Popolare, walls stacked floor to ceiling with bottles under a ceiling of hanging greenery, wisteria and fairy lights

Food and drink

The Most Instagrammable Restaurants in London, Ranked by How Many Lists Name Them

The rooms London's guides keep naming — a Mayfair Greco-Roman fantasy with Damien Hirst marbles, a townhouse of rooms with egg-pod lavatories, a courthouse atrium — and which ones cook as well as they photograph.

  • Restaurants
  • Design
  • Dining
  • Photography
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The Feng Shang Princess, a red three-tiered Chinese pagoda restaurant moored on the Regent's Canal

Food and drink

London's Most Unusual Restaurants: 23 Strange Rooms

A Mongolian yurt, a floating pagoda, a Victorian lavatory, a prison-roasted coffee shop and a former school bike shed — London restaurants where the room comes first.

  • Restaurants
  • Unusual
  • Quirky London
  • Dining
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The dining room at Duck & Waffle, forty floors up in the Heron Tower, with floor-to-ceiling windows over the City at dusk

Food and drink

Late-Night Eating in London: Where to Eat After Midnight

A 24-hour caff with no front door, Whitechapel lamb chops and a fry-up forty floors up — where London feeds you late.

  • Restaurants
  • Late night
  • Cheap eats
  • Nightlife
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A vintage green Rolls-Royce parked outside Rules restaurant in Covent Garden, beneath red awnings reading Rules, Est 1798

Food and drink

Special Occasion Restaurants in London: Where to Book

All six of London's three-Michelin-star restaurants, the rooms worth booking for the room alone, and which take months rather than weeks.

  • Restaurants
  • Fine dining
  • Michelin
  • Special occasion
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Two loaded tacos on a metal tray at Club Mexicana, piled with pickled red onion, jalapenos, coriander, crema and chilli sauce

Food and drink

The Best Vegetarian and Vegan Restaurants in London

London's best vegetarian and vegan restaurants, from the UK's first Michelin-starred vegan kitchen to a lunchtime thali buffet on Drummond Street under £15 — with what each actually costs.

  • Restaurants
  • Vegan restaurants
  • Vegetarian restaurants
  • Plant-based
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A singer and band perform on the stage at Quaglino's while diners eat at candlelit tables in front

Food and drink

Dinner and a Show in London: Jazz Suppers, Cabaret Dinners, Drag Brunches and Restaurants with Live Music

A free house band with a £16.95 prix fixe at Brasserie Zédel, jazz with dinner from £16 at the 606 Club, burlesque at The Maine and Basil Fawlty serving the soup. What the show costs on top of the food, which nights, and what to book.

  • Dinner and a show
  • Live music
  • Jazz
  • Cabaret
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The blue-painted shopfront of Hoppers at 49 Frith Street in Soho, with a cream awning and a menu case beside the door

Food and drink

The Best Sri Lankan Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List and Award

Not our opinion. Every restaurant here is ranked by how many independent awards, critics and reviewers name it — and Sri Lankan is kept separate from South Indian throughout.

  • Restaurants
  • Sri Lankan restaurants
  • Sri Lankan food
  • Hoppers
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The dining room at Chishuru: green leather chairs at pale timber tables, a faceted wooden bar front, and glasses hanging above the open pass

Food and drink

The Best West African Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

Michelin's African selection for London is three restaurants and all three hold a distinction — plus the Peckham stalls the magazines miss. Nigerian, Ghanaian, Ivorian and Senegambian, sorted by country.

  • Restaurants
  • West African restaurants
  • Nigerian restaurants
  • Ghanaian restaurants
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A clay pot of caramel-braised fish topped with sliced red chilli and spring onion, photographed from above on a white plate

Food and drink

The Best Vietnamese Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

Thirteen independent sources, one Michelin Bib Gourmand, and whether Kingsland Road is still where London's Vietnamese food is.

  • Restaurants
  • Vietnamese restaurants
  • Cheap eats
  • Dining
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Crowds eating at red bistro tables under the curved roofs of Coal Drops Yard, with a summer stage at the far end and people on the brick arch balconies above

Food and drink

The Best Places to Eat Outside in London: Yards, Squares and Waterfronts

Coal Drops Yard, Canary Wharf, Eccleston Yards and Exchange Square — the precincts where outdoor eating is concentrated, which ones are heated, and where you can sit down with food you brought yourself.

  • Outdoor dining
  • Restaurants
  • Food markets
  • Things to do
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The counter at Fish, Wings & Tings in Brixton Village, yellow and green signage above an open kitchen with two chefs working, and a chalkboard listing jerk chicken, rotis and cod fish fritters

Food and drink

The Best Caribbean Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

Thirteen independent sources across 82 venues. Trinidadian, Jamaican, Guyanese and where each one is.

  • Restaurants
  • Caribbean restaurants
  • Cheap eats
  • Dining
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Women making gozleme in the window of Hala Restaurant on Green Lanes, Harringay, during the Green Lanes Festival

Food and drink

The Best Turkish Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major Guide of the Year

The best Turkish restaurant in London, ranked by how many independent guides name it. Mangal II and Antepliler lead, and most are on one road in north London.

  • Restaurants
  • Turkish restaurants
  • Ocakbasi
  • Kebab
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