The Top 100 Places to Eat Near A Bar with Shapes for a Name
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Rank 2. Logma
Middle Eastern
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Rank 3. Tavern
Modern British
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Rank 4. Quince Bakery
British Bakery
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Rank 5. BRAT
Wood-fired Steakhouse
BRAT is a wood-fired restaurant in Shoreditch that's been on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, and it earns it without any fuss. The open kitchen, timber, and natural light make it feel genuinely lived-in rather than designed within an inch of its life. The cooking is restrained and precise, built on Welsh instincts with a Basque lean. The crowd skews creative-industry, comfortable with a decent wine bill, and nobody's performing.
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Rank 6. One Club Row
American
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Rank 7. Miga
Korean
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Rank 8. Luca
Italian
Luca is a handsome Italian restaurant in Clerkenwell where the kitchen plays a long game of mixing proper Italian tradition with the best British ingredients, and mostly wins. The fresh pasta is the reason to come, especially anything stuffed. The room pulls in an international crowd who know their food without making a fuss about it, and the space itself, all exposed brick and quiet industrial warmth, is genuinely one of the nicer dining rooms in London.
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Rank 9. Ikoyi Restaurant
Experimental
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Rank 11. Tiella Trattoria & Bar
Italian
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Rank 12. Ararat Bread
Bakery
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Rank 13. The Dreamery
Dessert
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Rank 14. Teal by Sally Abé
British
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Rank 15. Zoilo
Argentine Steakhouse
Zoilo is an Argentine steakhouse tucked into Marylebone that takes fire seriously without making a whole thing of it. Charcoal-grilled cuts from carefully sourced British and Argentine beef, aged properly and cooked with the kind of restraint that actually works. The room feels warm and lived-in, with a counter downstairs and something quieter upstairs. The wine list leans Argentine and rewards the curious. Ranked among the world's best steak restaurants, and it earns it.
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Rank 16. OMBRA
Italian
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Rank 17. Sagardi
Basque Spanish
Sagardi is a Basque steakhouse in Shoreditch that earns its reputation through the txuleton, a thick bone-in steak from older cattle, cooked over wood fire with nothing but salt and good judgment. The room smells of charcoal, the tables are wooden, and the crowd tends to be people who knew exactly what they were ordering before they sat down. No fuss, no foam, just fire and very good beef.
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Rank 18. Soft & Swirly
Dessert
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Rank 20. KOL MEZCALARIA
Modern Mexican Cocktail Bar
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Rank 22. Bar Etna
Pizza Cocktail Bar
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Rank 23. EDAMI
Lebanese Middle Eastern
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Rank 24. Trullo
Italian
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One of those grand Mayfair hotels that's been around forever and somehow still feels genuinely special rather than stuffy. Think shining marble, original wood paneling, and a mahogany staircase so good that Ralph Lauren copied it. The crowd skews wealthy and quietly glamorous, the kind of people the impeccably discreet staff will never name. Three staff for every guest means you'll feel looked after in a way that's almost unsettling.
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Rank 26. Zeit für Brot
German Bakery
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Rank 27. Trattoria Brutto
Florentine Italian
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Rank 28. St. John
British
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Rank 29. Ibai
Basque Steakhouse
Farringdon's answer to the Basque question of how to cook a steak, Ibai is a proper grill restaurant built around sourcing mature Galician cattle, dry-aging the beef seriously, and cooking it over charcoal with the kind of restraint that makes the fire taste like flavor rather than an accident. The room is a converted warehouse, the wine list leans Spanish, and the crowd skews like people who actually read the menu before arriving.
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Rank 30. Bouchon Racine
French
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A serious steak restaurant tucked inside The Ned, right in the City, where the finance crowd loosens their ties but not much else. The room is all leather and mahogany, the kind of place where the beef gets carved tableside and nobody rushes you. The Beef Wellington is a genuine reason to go, and the dry-aged cuts are sourced with real care. It's on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, which feels about right.
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Rank 33. The Devonshire
British
A Soho pub downstairs, a serious fire-grill steakhouse upstairs, and somehow both halves feel exactly right. The Devonshire has landed on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, and the beef earns it: in-house dry-ageing, open-ember cooking, the kind of care that shows. The room draws a confident, well-dressed crowd who ordered without much deliberation. Polished but never stiff, and very much worth the trip.
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Rank 34. Dim Sum Duck
Cantonese Chinese
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Rank 35. Sonora Taquería
Mexican
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Rank 36. Burro
Italian
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Rank 37. Hawksmoor St Pancras
British Steakhouse
Hawksmoor has been doing British beef better than almost anyone for years, and this location takes it somewhere absurd: a Gothic Revival cathedral of a dining room inside St Pancras hotel, all vaulted grandeur and serious steakhouses energy. Dry-aged, charcoal-fired cuts served with the kind of quiet precision that makes you stop mid-sentence. The Martini Bar is a genuinely good reason to arrive early. Jackets optional, but the room will make you wish you'd worn one.
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Rank 38. Nagare Bankside
Japanese-inspired Bakery
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Rank 39. Master Wei Xi'An
Xi'an Chinese
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Rank 40. Fortitude Bakehouse
Bakery
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Rank 41. Akoko
West African
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Rank 42. Oddono's Gelati
Dessert
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Rank 43. Kiln
Thai
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Rank 44. HIMI
Japanese
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Rank 45. Donia
Modern Filipino
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Rank 46. Simpson's in the Strand
British Cocktail Bar
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Rank 47. Arôme Bakery
Bakery
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Rank 48. Impala
Egyptian Middle Eastern
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Rank 49. Onsu
East Asian Bakery
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Rank 50. Belly
Modern Filipino
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Rank 51. Kumori Handroll Bar
Japanese
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Rank 52. Bake Street
Coffee
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Rank 53. Ciao Bella
Italian
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Rank 54. BiBi
Modern Indian
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Rank 55. Farha
Middle Eastern
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Rank 56. Gymkhana
Indian
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Rank 57. Tarn Bakery
Bakery
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Rank 58. MAZA Mayfair
Greek
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Rank 59. Panadera Marylebone
Filipino Coffee Shop
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Rank 60. Berenjak Mayfair
Persian
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Rank 61. Osteria Vibrato
Italian
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Rank 62. Legare
Italian
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Rank 63. Bocca di Lupo
Regional Italian
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Rank 65. SUBA Walthamstow
West African Bakery
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Rank 66. Chin Chin Dessert Club
Dessert
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Rank 67. Taiyakiya
Japanese Dessert
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Rank 68. Ice Cream Union
Dessert
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Rank 70. Eat Vietnam Bar B Grill 1
Vietnamese
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A wood-panelled Mayfair grill room that's been around forever and has absolutely no interest in reinventing itself, which turns out to be the whole point. The beef is serious, grass-fed, properly aged, and cooked with the quiet confidence of a place that's never needed a rebrand. The room feels like old London money with its jacket off. It made the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, and honestly, you can see why.
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Rank 72. Gelupo
Dessert
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Rank 73. Bilmonte
Dessert
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Rank 74. Common Breads
Lebanese Mediterranean
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Rank 75. Weezie’s
Wine Bar
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Rank 76. TOAD Bakery
Bakery
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Rank 77. Zeret Kitchen
Ethiopian
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Rank 78. The Dover
Italian
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Rank 79. Nina
Italian
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Rank 80. Noble Rot
Modern European
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Rank 81. 27 Romilly St
Persian
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Rank 82. Maison Bertaux
Bakery
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Rank 83. Hoppers
Sri Lankan
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Rank 84. Koya Soho
Tokyo-style Noodles
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Rank 85. Chunk Provisions
Dessert
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Rank 86. Barrafina
Spanish
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Rank 87. Quo Vadis
British
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Rank 88. The French House
French
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Rank 89. SOLA
American
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Rank 90. DUCKSOUP
Modern Mediterranean Wine Bar
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Rank 91. Crunch
American
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Rank 92. Nanahoshi
Sushi
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Rank 94. Andrew Edmunds
Modern European
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Rank 95. Rita's
American
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Rank 96. BAO Soho
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 98. Bancone Golden Square
Italian
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Rank 99. Unico Gelato & Caffè
Dessert
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Rank 100. Kabul Ice Cream
Afghan Dessert