The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Gravetye Manor
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Rank 1. Gravetye Manor
Modern British
The kitchen garden behind this country house hotel restaurant does most of the heavy lifting on the menu, and the chef lets it. Ornate fireplaces and plaster ceilings give way to a contemporary dining room extension, which shouldn't work but does. Produce travels about fifty yards from soil to plate, and the cooking is careful enough that a simple garden salad can actually stop a conversation. One Michelin star.
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Rank 2. Cat Inn
British
Pewter tankards hang from the beamed ceiling, open fires flicker in the corners, and nobody seems in any hurry to leave. This West Hoathly village pub has been around forever and still feels like it belongs to the locals rather than the tourist trail. The kitchen sticks to hearty pub classics, the kind of cooking where a steak and ale pie with triple-cooked chips is exactly the right answer. Four bedrooms upstairs if you'd rather not drive home.
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Wallabies roam the gardens outside, which is either charming or surreal depending on your mood, and inside the Italianate mansion chef Jean Delport runs a long, expensive tasting menu shaped by the Sussex estate and his South African upbringing. Foraged ingredients, braai-inflected main courses, and carrot biltong making an appearance mid-menu. Michelin have given it a star.
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The name is Krio for "fancy," which tells you exactly what Maria Bradford is going for in this intimate fine dining room in Sevenoaks. Small plates and sharing dishes draw on Sierra Leonean family recipes, the kind passed down through generations, then reframed with contemporary technique. Beef short rib in groundnut and coconut sauce is the dish people keep talking about. A Michelin Bib Gourmand and a National Restaurant Awards Trailblazer of the Year for 2026.
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · Trailblazer of the Year · The National Restaurant Awards · Maria Bradford
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #91 · The National Restaurant Awards
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 5. Ben Wilkinson at The Pass
Modern British
The kitchen is the dining room: high counter seats wrap around the pass so you watch every move through a tasting-menu dinner. Set inside a country house hotel near the South Downs, Ben Wilkinson holds a Michelin star and runs a quiet, precise kitchen where day-boat fish and wild deer from the surrounding landscape do the talking. The dessert course tends to linger in memory longer than you'd expect.
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Rank 6. Kentish Hare
Modern British Pub
A converted village pub in the Kent countryside, roughly split between bar and dining room so it never quite forgets what it is. The kitchen leans into seasonal produce from Kent and the West Country, mixing both in a way that reads as modern British without being precious about the label. The garden out back fills up when the weather agrees, and the crowd skews local and commuter, which is exactly what the place was built for.
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Rank 7. Maré by Rafael Cagali
New American
Rafael Cagali's Hove restaurant earned Brighton and Hove its first Michelin star in roughly fifty years, which gives you a sense of what the south coast was working with before this arrived. Maré is a modern sharing-plates restaurant where the cooking runs from Brazilian to Mediterranean to Japanese without feeling lost, held together by a kitchen that came up through Da Terra. The room is sleek; the service is warm enough that you won't notice the ambition.
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Rank 8. The Fox Pub & Dining Keston
British Pub
A plush green and gold interior, walled prints, and a fire in the waiting area make it clear this Keston village pub took its refurbishment seriously. The Fox is a full pub and dining room, running from bar snacks with dogs welcome at your feet through to a kitchen that leans on seasonal, local produce for its menu of British classics with the occasional ecurious detour. The Great British Pub Awards named it Stonegate Group Pub Partners Pub of the Year in 2025.
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Rank 9. The Bucks Head
British Pub
A Kentish country gastropub where the steak list leans on Ightham beef, with côte de boeuf cuts cooked for sharing, and the bar snacks include a venison and nduja Scotch egg that has no business being that good. The menu runs from battered fish and chips to roasted chalk stream trout, all of it grounded firmly in the surrounding countryside. It landed on the Top 50 Gastropubs list, which tracks for a place that manages to feel genuinely local rather than aspirationally rural.
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Rank 10. Buon Appetito
Pizza
A neighborhood pizzeria on London Road that's quietly gotten serious about its dough, working it toward a lighter, more digestible structure that holds the toppings without competing with them. The menu tilts contemporary without abandoning the classics, and the ingredients are chosen with more care than the setting might suggest. It ranked 31st in 50 Top Pizza Europe, which is a remarkable thing to achieve on a suburban high street.
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A pink neon sign pulls you off Western Road into a small, easygoing neighbourhood spot built around sharing plates that wander freely between Asia and South America. The cooking leans on spice and follows no single flag, which sounds like a recipe for chaos but mostly just means dinner stays interesting. Cocktails open things up, the prices won't make you wince, and the Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, which tells you roughly where it sits.
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Rank 12. Cin Cin
Italian
Housemade pasta is the whole point at this compact Italian in Hove, and the all-Italian wine list makes sure nothing distracts from it. The room gives you options: counter seats in front of the open kitchen, a horseshoe bar, a window perch, or a quieter back room. The Michelin Guide hands it a Bib Gourmand, and the regulars who clearly know the menu by heart suggest the kitchen has been quietly earning it for a while.
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The building was once Hannington's department store; now the flint-stone shell holds a brasserie with a first-floor cocktail bar, a terrace, and a stainless-steel counter wrapping an open kitchen below. The menu roams freely across global influences in small-plate format, colourful and casual enough that grazing feels like the point. Wines come by the glass in decent number. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and priced like they mean it.
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Rank 14. Burnt Orange
Mediterranean
Wood-burning fire in the middle of Brighton's Lanes, retro music on the speakers, and cocktails moving fast, this is the kind of sharing-plates spot that doesn't feel the need to announce itself. The menu leans Mediterranean with North African and Middle Eastern threads running through it, and the Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks. Easy to walk past on Middle Street, which is half the point.
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Rank 15. Thackeray's Restaurant
Modern British
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Rank 16. The Counter by Robin Read
Modern British
Four counter seats in a dark, moody room sounds like a math problem, but it's the whole point here. This intimate Modern British restaurant on a leafy Tunbridge Wells street builds its menu around local suppliers and a kitchen garden, letting the central ingredient do the talking. The counter spots are the ones to request: you're face to face with the chef and close enough to feel the heat.
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A chef's table counter upstairs handles special occasions, while the dining room below keeps things rustic and neighbourhood-warm, looking out over Southborough Green. This is the kind of modern British cooking where technique stays out of sight and the flavours do the talking instead. Seasonal desserts lean into unusual pairings without making a fuss about it. Small, personal, and run by a couple who seem to actually enjoy what they do.
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Rank 18. Starling
Modern British
A neighbourhood restaurant on Esher's high street with a Michelin star and, somehow, the good sense not to make a fuss about it. The room is spacious and unfussy, and the menu reads simpler than it cooks, the kind of food that tastes effortless precisely because it isn't. The chef's Orkney scallop with Thai green curry sauce has become a calling card. Lunch is good value, and the steaks give the regulars a reason to stay loyal.
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Rank 19. Ginger Fox
Modern British
A thatched pub on the edge of the woods in the South Downs, run by Brighton's Gingerman Group as their country escape. The menu keeps one foot in the classics, Welsh rarebit, prawns with Marie Rose, and extends the other toward something with a bit more ambition, with the kitchen applying equal care to both. Local wines on the list, cheerful staff throughout, and a room that feels genuinely tucked away from everything.
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Rank 20. Perry Hill Pub
British Pub
A giant bowl of free dog treats greets you at the door, which tells you almost everything about this big, restored south London pub sitting between Catford and Sydenham. There's a kids' corner in the dining room, an adults-only terrace for anyone brave enough to call it date night, and a calendar of events so packed it makes community centres look idle. It won Best Pub for Families at the Great British Pub Awards in 2025.
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Rank 21. Knepp Wilding Kitchen
British
An 18th-century barn on a rewilding estate in West Sussex, where lunch means seasonal British cooking shaped almost entirely by what the land around you is producing. The flatbreads with wild garlic butter are a good reason to arrive hungry. The estate runs a farm shop and walking trails, so the meal tends to become most of the day, which seems to be the point. Summer brings occasional BBQ evenings for those who plan ahead.
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Rank 22. Chez Bruce
Regional French
The building once housed Harvey's, where Marco Pierre White made his name, which tells you something about the ground Chez Bruce stands on. It holds a Michelin star and takes a deliberately old-fashioned line: classical French technique, house-made charcuterie, serious offal, a cheese board treated with the reverence it deserves, and a wine cellar stocked with rare bottles at prices that quietly embarrass most of the competition.
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Rank 23. The Set
Modern Japanese
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Rank 24. Amari
Spanish
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Rank 25. Dastaan
Indian
From the outside, Dastaan reads as a suburban curry house you might drive past without a second look, which is precisely what makes the packed dining room feel like a secret. It's a North Indian restaurant in Ewell with a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kitchen leans on layered spicing rather than heat alone. The service runs tighter than the room has any right to expect. The kulfi and gulab jamun finish things off properly.
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Rank 26. Tutto
Italian
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Rank 27. Furna
Modern British
Counter seats face a fully open kitchen at this sleek modern restaurant in central Brighton, where the chefs often bring the food out themselves. The cooking draws on seasonal British produce with a creative, internationally inflected edge, the kind of menu that changes with what's good rather than what's safe. The room mixes vintage and contemporary pieces in a way that shouldn't work but does.
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Rank 28. Chapter One
Modern European New American
A 1930s building in Locksbottom, with just enough period detail in the interior to feel considered rather than costumed, sets the scene for this neighborhood modern European restaurant. The Mibrasa grill does real work here, lending some smoke and char to prime British produce. Regulars clearly know the menu by heart, and the service team are the kind who notice when your glass is nearly empty.
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Rank 29. Stem
Modern British
The front half is a cocktail bar with a resident DJ on weekends and a record collection to match; the back half is a cosy bistro where you order off a blackboard of steaks and fish. This Edwardian shop conversion on Church Road captures Brighton's relaxed, slightly bohemian mood without making a big deal about it. Plates come in small and large, the wine list leans natural, and the whole thing moves at a pace that feels like someone actually thought about it.
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Rank 30. Wild Flor
Modern British
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Rank 31. Little Fish Market
Seafood
A former fishmonger's across from an old Victorian fish market, so the address was never really a choice. This is a small, unassuming seafood restaurant where the chef-owner has been quietly refining a set-menu format for years, cooking through courses that lean heavily on understanding the fish rather than dressing it up. He's also working the room himself, which keeps the whole thing from feeling stiff.
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Rank 33. The Bell
British
Top hats serve as lampshades and tubas apparently live in the bathrooms, which tells you most of what you need to know about this old coaching inn in a very pretty East Sussex village. It's a proper pub with traditional British cooking, bold flavors, and sourdough pizza from the outdoor Smithy Kitchen when the weather cooperates. The wine list runs to jeroboams and imperials, which feels appropriately unhinged for a place this charming.
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Rank 34. etch. by Steven Edwards
Modern British
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Rank 35. Dilsk
Modern British
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Rank 36. Trinity
Modern British
Parquet floors, a bar at the back, and an open kitchen that makes it feel less like a restaurant and more like a very serious dinner party. Adam Byatt's Clapham flagship holds a Michelin star and runs on classically French-trained technique quietly bent toward British produce. The cooking is rich and precise without being showy. The 450-bin wine list leans Bordeaux and Burgundy, which suits the food exactly.
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · Restaurateur of the Year · The National Restaurant Awards · Adam Byatt
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #8 · The National Restaurant Awards
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Rank 37. The Small Holding
Modern British
A former village pub in rural Kent, now a Modern British restaurant where two brothers grow much of what lands on the plate using no-dig, low-intervention methods. The monthly tasting menu leans Nordic as much as British, shaped entirely by what the kitchen's own land is producing. In summer, the terrace looks out over the garden you're about to eat, which makes the whole farm-to-table pitch feel less like a claim and more like a view.
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Rank 38. FORNO
Italian Bakery
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Rank 40. Kerfield Arms
Modern British Pub
A Michelin-starred gastropub on a Camberwell corner that holds a large bar for walk-ins alongside a proper dining room, so you can commit to whatever level of evening you're after. The cooking is deceptively plain, leaning on good produce and classical technique without making a fuss about either. The weekday lunch with a pint or a glass of wine for under £20 has made it a neighborhood institution at impressive speed.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #25 · Top 50 Gastropubs
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #81 · The National Restaurant Awards
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Rank 42. The Victoria
Modern British
A converted Victorian beer house on the high street, with exposed brick, open fireplaces, and a garden terrace that earns its keep in good weather. The menu is modern British with a classical spine, the kind of place where chicken Kiev arrives without irony and a char-grilled steak is sized for two. The wine list and the beer selection are both long enough to cause mild indecision. Surrey locals fill the banquettes like they've never considered eating anywhere else.
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A converted barn on the Wiston Estate winery, all oak beams and brick, where the soil type itself gives the place its name. Chalk is a smart, seasonal restaurant where the short menu changes with what's growing and the obvious move is pairing it with one of the estate's own sparkling wines. The cooking is clean and unfussy, letting combinations do the work. A good place to eat well without anyone making it complicated.
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Rank 44. ssam ssam
Korean
Some tables come fitted with their own barbecue grill, which sets the tone at this family-run Korean restaurant in Merton. You cook pork belly, short ribs, or Wagyu at your own pace, while the rest of the room works through bansang sets: a main like fried chicken or grilled mackerel flanked by three side dishes and kimchi that earns the praise heaped on it. The matcha crème brûlée is a quietly confident closer. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 45. Bowleys at The Plough
Modern British
The village of Trottiscliffe bought its own pub back from property developers, which makes Bowleys a Modern British restaurant with an unusually compelling origin story. The Yates family now runs the small dining room, turning out a concise menu of classically grounded, ambitious plates built around local produce, some of it their own. Even the butter is made in-house, which tells you something about how seriously they take the details here.
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Rank 46. The Star Inn
Beer Bar
A nano brewery in an outbuilding, mead on tap, and a beer garden with a fire pit that stays open whatever the weather: this is a real-ale pub in the Surrey town of Godalming that takes its cask seriously. The team has run it for years and the regulars have clearly noticed, packing the place reliably. It took the Greene King Pub of the Year at the 2025 Great British Pub Awards.
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Rank 47. Tasty Jerk
Jamaican
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Rank 48. The Merry Harriers
British Pub
Old oak beams, a roaring fire, and a menu that changes daily depending on what came off the farm that morning. The Merry Harriers is a proper country gastropub in the Surrey Hills, the kind that's been around forever but got a serious kitchen upgrade when the current team took over. Shepherd's pie uses lamb they raised themselves, the wine list is quietly considered, and local ales share the bar with an actual cocktail list. Fifteen rooms mean you can stay.
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Rank 49. Black Radish
Modern British
Twelve seats is the whole restaurant, so booking is not a casual afterthought. Black Radish is a tiny Modern British dining room tucked inside Merton Abbey Mills, a riverside spot that has spent centuries being other things. The cooking leans on serious sourcing, with the menu shifting to whatever the chef has decided is worth getting excited about that week. The chef's table for two puts you right at the pass.
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Lobster ravioli has been on the menu here long enough to be considered a Chelsea landmark in its own right. Gordon Ramsay's three-Michelin-star flagship on Royal Hospital Road is a formal French dining room that somehow avoids feeling stiff, the kind of place where the kitchen's classical precision does all the talking. Menus run from a prestige set to a full carte blanche, and the room fills with people who dressed for the occasion.
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Rank 51. Takahashi
Japanese
Nigiri arrives one piece at a time, and the room stays quiet enough that you notice. This is an intimate omakase counter in Merton run by a husband-and-wife team, moving through small otsumami bites before the sushi becomes the whole point. Chutoro, otoro, hamachi, scallop, each one handled with a precision that makes the format feel less like a trend and more like an argument. Sake pairings are on offer if you need convincing.
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Rank 52. Smoke & Salt
Modern British
The open kitchen drives the energy in this compact Tooting corner restaurant, where the team runs tasting menus built around seasonal British produce with a thread of pickled and preserved things running through. It started as a pop-up and never quite lost that scrappy enthusiasm. Two menu lengths, all available in pescatarian, vegetarian, or vegan form. Keep an eye out for the occasional Burger Nights, which feel like a reward for regulars.
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A one-star Michelin restaurant sitting inside a handsome Arts and Crafts building on the edge of Richmond Park, which already feels like cheating. The cooking is deeply seasonal, built on classical technique, and the tasting menu is where it all clicks into place. Sauces are a recurring pleasure here. The service is warm without hovering, and the team somehow also hosts quarterly classical music recitals, because why not.
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Rank 54. Heritage Dulwich
Indian
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Rank 55. Koyal
Indian
A clock tower and bell tower mark the spot just off Surbiton High Street, which is a bold architectural move for a neighbourhood Indian restaurant and one that largely delivers on the promise. Inside, it's bright and colourful, and the pan-Indian menu travels from tandoori dishes in the north to the gentler spicing of the south. Start with a street food snack, then let the kitchen's clean, well-balanced flavours do the persuading.
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Rank 56. A. Wong
Cantonese
A 42-cover Chinese restaurant in Victoria that holds two Michelin stars while somehow managing to feel relaxed about it. The evening menu takes you on a three-hour tour of China's regional cuisines, including dishes virtually unknown in the UK, while lunch leans into exceptional dim sum. Start with a drink downstairs in the Forbidden City bar before heading up, and let the team explain each dish, because they clearly want to.
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Rank 57. The Camberwell Arms
British Pub
The bread and ice cream are made in-house, which tells you something about how seriously this south London gastropub takes the everyday stuff. Seasonal cooking, a natural-leaning wine list, and simple cocktails fill out a room that feels genuinely neighbourhood, not aspirational. The chef's CV runs through St John and The Ledbury, though the food lands closer to comfort than show. The Sunday lunch has a devoted following.
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A no-frills Neapolitan pizzeria tucked into a quiet stretch of SW16, the kind of spot where the room gives you nothing to look at except your pizza, which turns out to be the point. Sharing plates and small bites fill out the table while you wait, and people do travel for it, which says something about the dough. Named on 50 Top Pizza Europe's list of Excellent Pizzerias, it wears the honour lightly, just like the place itself.
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Rank 59. The Anchor
Modern British
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Rank 60. Artusi
Italian
Named after the 19th-century Italian who wrote the cookbook that basically started everything, this compact neighbourhood trattoria on Bellenden Road does simple Italian cooking without fuss or fanfare. The homemade pasta is what most people come back for. Portions are generous, prices are the kind that make you feel good about ordering dessert, and the room runs with genuine warmth. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which fits it perfectly.
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A wine list arranged in chronological order starting around 7,000 BC is one way to open a conversation. Trivet is a two Michelin star modern restaurant a short walk from London Bridge, run by two Fat Duck veterans whose shared instinct is to pull back rather than show off. The cooking is precise and imaginative without the theatrics, and the wine leans hard into Georgia, Armenia, and the Middle East, which is rarer than it sounds.
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Rank 62. The Stile Bridge
British
A roadside pub in Kent where the menu roams considerably further than the address suggests, pulling from France, Thailand, Latin America, and the Mediterranean while keeping British ingredients at the center. The room mixes vintage fixtures with something a bit more current, and the kitchen leans generous, layering flavors rather than keeping things spare. Sharing steaks are the move if you come in a group.
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Rank 63. 2210 by NattyCanCook
Caribbean
The rum punch arrives before you've even thought about food, which is the right order of events at this Caribbean restaurant in Herne Hill. Chef Nathaniel Mortley built a following on Instagram as NattyCanCook before opening the room, and the crowd eating here suggests the transition worked out. Warming spices, sweet notes, jollof rice, and a sticky toffee pudding that quietly refuses to be conventional.
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Rank 64. The Swan Inn
Traditional British
The pub dog greets you before the staff do, which sets the tone perfectly. This old village inn, tucked into the South Downs near Fittleworth, leans hard into everything a proper British pub should be: a refurbished interior that still feels worn-in, a friendly room, and traditional cooking that runs to devilled kidneys and Barnsley chop. No pretension, no foam, just hearty food done with care.
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Rank 65. Corenucopia by Clare Smyth
Traditional British
Thick cream carpets, velvet upholstery, and mahogany tables set the tone for Clare Smyth's Belgravia fine dining room, where traditional British cooking gets quietly rewritten. The "fish and chips" turns out to be Dover sole filled with lobster mousse, which is either a betrayal or an upgrade depending on how attached you are to the original. A Michelin star hangs over it all, earned through that kind of precision.
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Rank 66. Lai Rai
Vietnamese
A banh mi and coffee spot by day and a fuller Vietnamese dinner by night, Lai Rai is a small, cheerful room on Rye Lane that holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand without making any fuss about it. The cooking runs bold and bright, and the team seems to take genuine pleasure in the whole enterprise. Peckham locals fill the place fast, so booking ahead is the move.
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Rank 67. Tamila
Indian
The onion bhajis that open the menu at this bustling South London Indian restaurant earn the Michelin Bib Gourmand they've been handed. The room is warm and relaxed in the way Northcote Road tends to encourage, and the short menu leans hard into a handful of things done well, the Thanjavur chicken curry among them. Prices are gentle enough that ordering broadly with friends leaves everyone in a good mood, including whoever picks up the bill.
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The open kitchen sits at the heart of the room, close enough that the fire smell follows the food to the table. Upstairs is a casual sharing plates spot above its quieter, fancier sibling on the ground floor, all high tables and the kind of noise that means everyone is eating happily. Much of the menu passes over flames. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the pricing makes that feel like a reasonable arrangement.
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Rank 69. Kruk
Thai
A railway-arch Thai restaurant in Peckham Rye that holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and takes the spice seriously, which is either a warning or a promise depending on your tolerance. The kitchen leans hard into heat without letting it flatten everything else, and every meat dish on the menu has a vegetarian counterpart, so no one gets stuck ordering plain rice. Loud, crowded, and cheap enough that you'll probably order one more dish than you planned.
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Rank 70. Llewelyn's
Mediterranean
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Rank 72. The Horse Guards Inn
British Pub
Oak beams, stripped floorboards, and a vegetable patch that shapes the menu: this South Downs gastropub changes its kitchen list daily based on what's growing, foraged, or sourced from nearby suppliers. The cooking is serious without the pub having forgotten it's a pub. Three en-suite rooms upstairs make it a reasonable excuse to stay the night and pretend you live somewhere quieter than you do.
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Rank 73. Elystan Street
Modern British, Mediterranean Cuisine
Huge windows face the street, and the light inside has clearly been given as much thought as the menu. This is a Michelin-starred neighbourhood restaurant in Chelsea, which is to say the room is elegant without trying to prove it, and the cooking follows the same logic: Mediterranean influences, pared-back flavours, nothing showing off. Philip Howard is behind it, if the name means anything to you. A casually dressed lunch works as well as a proper dinner.
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The smoked jollof rice arrives theatrically, which tells you something about how Jeremy Chan runs a tasting menu. Ikoyi is a creative fine dining restaurant on the Strand where British organic produce meets West African spices and the results tend to be strange and arresting in equal measure. It holds two Michelin stars and sits at number 15 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list, which is the kind of sentence that sounds made up until you're actually sitting there.
- 50 Best #15 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- The Infatuation #15 · The 25 Best Restaurants In London
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A two-Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant near London Bridge where the kitchen sends out a surprise set menu, so you sit down knowing almost nothing about what's coming. Tom Sellers' team works with serious ingredients, langoustines and turbot among them, presented in a way that makes the plate feel like a considered decision rather than a garnish situation. The room is bright and open, the service runs warm, and a second floor now handles private dining.
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Rank 76. River Café
Italian
The wood-fired oven runs the show at this Italian fine dining restaurant on the Thames, and has done for long enough that a table here still feels like an occasion. Ruth Rogers's kitchen keeps things honestly rustic, leaning on whatever the season offers, clams, crab, wild sea bass, and a wine list that Italophiles treat as the main event. The terrace over the river is the seat to request, and it holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 77. Wildflowers
Mediterranean
Tucked inside Newson's Yard, a design-forward development just off Pimlico Road, Wildflowers is a Mediterranean brasserie where an open kitchen fires produce-driven cooking that pulls from France, Italy, and Spain. The room is pale, airy, and a little quietly beautiful. A wine bar upstairs, Bar Flor, nods to cicchetti and pintxos for something looser. The chef previously worked at Trinity and Elystan Street, and the cooking carries that pedigree while sitting a notch more relaxed.
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #30 · The National Restaurant Awards
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 78. The Waterman's Arms
Modern British Pub
The Patty & Bun founder's pivot from smash burgers to Thames-side gastropub is less of a stretch than it sounds. The Waterman's Arms sits right on the river in Barnes, with a balcony view that earns its keep and a bar downstairs for anyone who just wants a pint. Upstairs, the kitchen runs a produce-led menu of seasonal modern British cooking, with a blackboard of steaks and market fish doing the heavier lifting alongside bar snacks worth lingering over.
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Rank 79. OMA
Greek
A crudo bar faces a live-fire kitchen upstairs from Borough Market, which is exactly as dramatic as it sounds. OMA holds a Michelin star for its Greek and Levantine sharing menu, where breads and dips give way to charcoal-grilled plates with a punchy, sun-scorched confidence. The wine list runs to 450 bins, arranged by proximity to the sea, because of course it is. Stone, dark wood, and eucalyptus tones set the room; the terrace looks straight down onto the market below.
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Rank 80. Cornus
Modern British Seafood
Linen-laid tables and an unhurried room in Belgravia set the tone for what's on the plate: southwestern seafood, handled with enough restraint to let the ingredients make their own case. Devon crab and Cornish cod appear regularly, and the kitchen's habit of not fussing with superb produce is a philosophy, not an oversight. A sibling to Medlar, and like that Chelsea stalwart, it holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 81. The Ritz Restaurant
Modern French
The dining room was designed so the pink palette would flatter a lady's blush, which tells you everything about the register you're operating in. This is formal hotel fine dining at full tilt, all gilt mirrors and chandeliers, with two Michelin stars and a spot at number two on the National Restaurant Awards 2026 list. John Williams has cooked here for close to two decades, keeping the cooking classical French but lighter than it looks.
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Rank 82. Mountain
Welsh-influenced Spanish
The wood-fired grill does a lot of heavy lifting at this sprawling two-floor Soho restaurant from the team behind Brat and Kiln. Welsh and Spanish influences collide on a menu built for sharing, running from raw red prawns with stracciatella to whole lobster caldereta served in an earthenware pot. A Michelin star sits alongside a genuinely casual atmosphere where dropping in for one glass and a snack is as welcome as a full feast. The wine list runs to around 500 bottles.
- 50 Best #74 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · Wine List of the Year · The National Restaurant Awards
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
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The dessert trolley arrives like a formal procession, and the baba is its reason for existing. This is French fine dining at the Dorchester, Alain Ducasse's name on the door and three Michelin stars on record. The kitchen moves between classical technique and something lighter, the way Ducasse has always wanted it, and the service team reads the room with the kind of easy authority that makes a four-hour dinner feel like the obvious way to spend an evening.
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Eggs Drumkilbo has been on the menu here so long it's practically listed on the deed. This Michelin-starred, fine dining room in Belgravia is the kind of place where people still dress for dinner without being asked, which in London is nearly a miracle. The kitchen runs on classic British foundations but handles modern technique without making a fuss about it. Quietly grand, quietly serious, quietly everything Belgravia thinks it is.
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Rank 85. Sollip
Creative Korean
Pastel walls and near-silence greet you inside this Southwark fine-dining room, a useful antidote to the railway arches outside. A Korean husband-and-wife team run the kitchen, folding techniques from European stints into flavours from home, and the result is a set menu that earns Sollip its Michelin star without announcing itself too loudly. The cooking is precise and quietly inventive, the kind where the surprise lands before you've spotted it coming.
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Rank 86. Bunhead Bakery
Palestinian-inspired Bakery
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Rank 87. Quilon
Indian
Sandstone walls and rattan screens set the tone at this Michelin-starred Indian restaurant inside the Taj 51 Hotel, where the kitchen focuses on the southwest coast rather than the usual suspects. The menu travels the Malabar Coast with fish curries, kori gassi, and pepper shrimps, and a separate vegetarian menu means no one draws the short straw. The team is sharp and the room is calm enough to make Westminster feel very far away.
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Rank 88. The Devonshire
Traditional British
The ground floor is a proper pub, rammed most hours with people working through what regulars insist is the finest pint of Guinness in London. Climb the stairs and The Devonshire becomes a grill room, where dry-aged beef butchered on site meets an open-fire kitchen. The team behind it includes a former Heston Blumenthal lieutenant, which explains the quiet technical seriousness underneath what looks, pleasantly, like a Soho pub having a very good time. Top 50 Gastropubs ranked it first in 2026.
- World's 101 Best #45 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #1 · Top 50 Gastropubs
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · Gastropub of the Year · The National Restaurant Awards
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Rank 89. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
Traditional British
Heston Blumenthal's two-Michelin-star dining room inside the Mandarin Oriental takes its cues from England's oldest recipe books, then does thoroughly Heston things to them. The signature dish arrives looking exactly like a mandarin orange and turns out to be chicken liver parfait, which tells you everything about the register here. Guests even choose how much the servers explain, a thoughtful touch in a room that could easily lean on ceremony. It closes for good in early 2027.
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Rank 90. Sorella
Italian
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Rank 91. Maya’s Bakehouse
Bakery
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Rank 92. Eric’s
Bakery
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Rank 93. Hélène Darroze at The Connaught
Modern French
Wood panelling and a Connaught address sound like the setup for a very stiff evening, but the pastel tones and soft furnishings land closer to a well-appointed living room. This is Hélène Darroze's three-Michelin-star modern French dining room, where seasonal produce meets the chef's international influences, lobster arriving with tandoori spices being the kind of combination that either makes you raise an eyebrow or lower it in admiration. The Armagnac trolley at dessert is not optional.
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Rank 94. Ploussard
Bistro French
The blonde-wood panelling gives this French bistro in Battersea an almost art deco warmth, which suits it: Ploussard has the feel of a neighborhood place that takes itself seriously without making you feel like a tourist in your own dinner. The menu runs classic Francophile territory, seasonal and carefully sourced, and the wine list is short but chosen with enough conviction that you'll probably just ask the staff what to drink.
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Rank 95. Muse by Tom Aikens
Contemporary New American
A Georgian townhouse tucked into a Belgravia mews, seating just 23, so the word "intimate" is an understatement. Tom Aikens' Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant uses each dish as a kind of edible autobiography, tracing moments from his childhood and career, climbing trees, late-summer barbecues, parental influences. It sounds like a conceit, but the cooking is sophisticated enough to pull it off without making you feel like you're eating someone's diary.
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Rank 96. Gymkhana
Indian
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Rank 97. Row on 5
Modern New American
Your coat gets dry-cleaned while you eat, which tells you everything about the register here. Row on 5 is Jason Atherton and Spencer Metzger's two-Michelin-starred fine dining room on Savile Row, where dinner begins underground with birdsong and champagne before you're led upstairs to a grand open kitchen. Tableside preparation, obsessive British sourcing, and a wine cellar situation that borders on theatrical. Dress accordingly.
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Rank 98. Camille
Bistro French
A blackboard menu that changes daily and leans hard into pig's cheeks, trotters, and fromage de tête sets the tone at this snug French bistro tucked into Borough Market. The team behind Ducksoup runs it with the same low-key ease: natural wines, rustic cooking done with precision, and a room that feels like it belongs on a Parisian backstreet rather than SE1. It landed at number 20 on the National Restaurant Awards list in 2026.
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #20 · The National Restaurant Awards
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 99. Amaya
Indian
Three live-fire grills, tawa, tandoor, and sigri, anchor the kitchen at this Belgravia Indian restaurant, and the menu is built around sharing plates that arrive as each one comes off the heat. The format means you cover real ground across a menu that earns its variety. Smoked chilli lamb chops tend to linger in the memory. The room runs warm and lively, the kind that fills with regulars who know not to rush. It holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 100. Pétrus by Gordon Ramsay
Contemporary French
A glass-walled wine store at the center of the room holds over 700 bins, including Château Pétrus going back decades, which sets the tone immediately. This is a fine dining room in Belgravia, named after the famous Pomerol estate, where the cooking runs to lobster and turbot in classically French, unfussy luxury. Gordon Ramsay's team holds a Michelin star, and the well-heeled regulars who fill it look like they already knew that.