The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Balfour Winery
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Rank 1. Tasty Jerk
Jamaican Caribbean
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Rank 2. FORNO
Italian Bakery
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Rank 3. Ikoyi Restaurant
Experimental
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Rank 4. Eric’s
Bakery
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Rank 5. Eat Vietnam Bar B Grill 1
Vietnamese
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Rank 7. Osteria Angelina
Italian
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Rank 9. Bunhead Bakery
Palestinian-inspired Bakery
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Rank 11. TOAD Bakery
Bakery
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Rank 12. KOL MEZCALARIA
Modern Mexican Cocktail Bar
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Rank 13. 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 14. Maya’s Bakehouse
Bakery
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Rank 15. Kurisu Omakase
Sushi
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Rank 16. Zeret Kitchen
Ethiopian
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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 18. Caravaggio Gelato
Dessert
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Rank 19. Ice Cream Union
Dessert
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Rank 20. Farha
Middle Eastern
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Rank 21. Legare
Italian
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Rank 22. One Club Row
American
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Rank 23. Miga
Korean
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Rank 24. 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 25. Nagare Bankside
Japanese-inspired Bakery
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Rank 26. Nardulli
Dessert
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Rank 27. 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 28. 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 29. August Bakery
Bakery
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Rank 30. Logma
Middle Eastern
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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. Bouchon Racine
French
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Rank 34. Tavern
Modern British
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Rank 35. Trattoria Brutto
Florentine Italian
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Rank 36. St. John
British
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Rank 37. 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 38. Burro
Italian
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Rank 39. OMBRA
Italian
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Rank 40. 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 41. Teal by Sally Abé
British
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Rank 42. Tiella Trattoria & Bar
Italian
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Rank 43. Simpson's in the Strand
British Cocktail Bar
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Rank 44. Common Breads
Lebanese Mediterranean
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Rank 45. Weezie’s
Wine Bar
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Rank 46. Soft & Swirly
Dessert
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Rank 47. Ararat Bread
Bakery
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Rank 48. Kiln
Thai
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Rank 49. Arôme Bakery
Bakery
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Rank 51. Quince Bakery
British Bakery
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Rank 52. Chunk Provisions
Dessert
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Rank 53. SUBA Walthamstow
West African Bakery
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Rank 54. Donia
Modern Filipino
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Rank 55. Onsu
East Asian Bakery
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Rank 56. Kumori Handroll Bar
Japanese
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Rank 57. HIMI
Japanese
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Rank 58. EDAMI
Lebanese Middle Eastern
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Rank 59. Master Wei Xi'An
Xi'an Chinese
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Rank 60. Zeit für Brot
German Bakery
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Rank 61. Trullo
Italian
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Rank 62. Gymkhana
Indian
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Rank 63. Akoko
West African
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Rank 64. Impala
Egyptian Middle Eastern
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Rank 65. Fortitude Bakehouse
Bakery
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Rank 66. Dim Sum Duck
Cantonese Chinese
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Rank 67. MAZA Mayfair
Greek
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Rank 69. 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 70. BiBi
Modern Indian
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Rank 71. Bar Etna
Pizza Cocktail Bar
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Rank 72. Bocca di Lupo
Regional Italian
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Rank 73. Osteria Vibrato
Italian
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Rank 74. Sonora Taquería
Mexican
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Rank 75. Berenjak Mayfair
Persian
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Rank 76. Taiyakiya
Japanese Dessert
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Rank 77. Made in Italy
Italian
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Rank 78. Chelsea Grill
Steakhouse
A serious steakhouse on King's Road that's earned a spot on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list without breaking a sweat about it. The beef is dry-aged in-house, sourced from British farms the kitchen actually knows, and cooked over a wood-fired grill with the kind of restraint that lets the meat do the talking. Warm room, knowledgeable staff, Chelsea money at the tables. Order confidently and don't overthink the sides.
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Rank 79. Panadera Marylebone
Filipino Coffee Shop
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Rank 80. The Dreamery
Dessert
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Rank 81. Gelupo
Dessert
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Rank 82. Bilmonte
Dessert
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Rank 83. Chin Chin Dessert Club
Dessert
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Rank 84. Ciao Bella
Italian
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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 86. Bake Street
Coffee
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Rank 87. The Dover
Italian
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Rank 88. Hunan
Chinese
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Rank 91. MARTINO'S
Italian
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Rank 92. 27 Romilly St
Persian
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Rank 93. Maison Bertaux
Bakery
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Rank 94. Normah's
Malaysian
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Rank 95. Ixchel
Mexican
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Rank 96. Crunch
American
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Rank 97. Hoppers
Sri Lankan
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Rank 98. Nanahoshi
Sushi
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Rank 99. The French House
French
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Rank 100. Koya Soho
Tokyo-style Noodles