The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near The Lanesborough
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Rank 1. Kabul Ice Cream
Ice Cream
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Rank 2. Tarn Bakery
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 3. SUBA Walthamstow
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 4. Sonora Taquería
Mexican
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Rank 5. Oddono's Gelati
Ice Cream
Oddono's Gelati trades in the kind of gelato that arrives with the weight and density of genuine ice cream, its flavors pitched somewhere between restraint and indulgence. The Stoke Newington location offers the rare luxury of a proper room to sit in while you eat it.
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Rank 6. Bake Street
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 8. Trullo
Italian
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Rank 9. Chunk Provisions
Ice Cream
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Rank 10. EDAMI
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 11. Bar Etna
Pizza
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Rank 12. Ararat Bread
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 15. The Dusty Knuckle Bakery
Sandwiches
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Rank 16. Teal by Sally Abé
British
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In a converted Shoreditch warehouse, Tomos Parry grills with the precision of restraint rather than spectacle, letting oak and timing speak louder than technique. The room is warm and unhurried, the wine list restless and curious, and every plate—from Hereford sirloin to mutton chop—reads as a quiet argument for doing one thing very well.
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Rank 19. The Dreamery
Ice Cream
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Inside Sir George Gilbert Scott's Gothic Revival masterpiece, Hawksmoor tends British beef with the kind of restraint that lets dry-aged flavor speak clearly over charcoal. The room is grand but the cooking refuses theatre, instead delivering precision through timing and heat—a welcome clarity in a space that could easily overwhelm.
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Rank 22. Soft & Swirly
Ice Cream
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Rank 23. Belly
Filipino
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In Farringdon, this Basque grill treats beef sourcing and dry-ageing as core identity, cooking Galician Blond over open fire with restraint rather than aggression. The confidence extends beyond the meat—clean plating, informed service, and Spanish wine all align behind the same disciplined intention.
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Rank 25. Mamasons Dirty Ice Cream
Ice Cream
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Rank 26. Quince Bakery
Bakery/Cafe
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Zoilo brings Argentine steak culture to Marylebone with quiet authority, sourcing British and Argentine beef and cooking over charcoal with precision rather than spectacle. The room—open kitchen below, intimate wood and leather above—matches the cooking's composure, while Argentine wines and unhurried hospitality complete the picture.
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Rank 29. Farha
Bakery/Cafe
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In Shoreditch, Sagardi channels Basque asador culture through wood-fired heat and dry-aged Spanish beef, letting product and flame do the talking without flourish. The txuleton—a thick, bone-in steak from older cattle—emerges charred and ruby-warm, a study in the authority that comes from trusting your tradition.
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Rank 35. Luca
Italian
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Rank 37. Miga
Korean
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Rank 39. OMBRA
Italian
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Rank 40. Logma
Iraqi
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Rank 41. Zeit für Brot
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 45. Tiella Trattoria & Bar
Italian
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Within The Ned's mahogany-lined dining room, Lutyens Grill handles dry-aged European beef with measured precision on the charcoal grill, letting each cut speak for itself. Tableside carving of Beef Wellington and classical service establish a restaurant where British grandeur feels earned rather than performed.
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Rank 48. Trattoria Brutto
Italian
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Rank 49. Dim Sum Duck
Chinese
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Rank 51. Ikoyi Restaurant
Experimental
Ikoyi operates in its own culinary universe, where Nigerian and global influences dissolve into something untethered and alive. The Strand dining room justifies the price if you believe in transformation through taste.
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Rank 53. Tavern
British
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A handsome Soho pub where the bar thrums with the energy of a Dickens novel filtered through a Guy Ritchie lens. The British cooking arrives without fuss—roasts and pies executed with the kind of precision that makes tradition feel inevitable.
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Rank 63. One Club Row
American
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Wood panelling and soft light frame a Mayfair institution where grass-fed British beef, dry-aged and char-grilled, arrives without pretense or flourish. The Guinea Grill endures because it understands that a great grill room need not perform tradition—it simply lives it, backed by service as assured and unshowy as the meat itself.
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Rank 72. Bouchon Racine
French
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Rank 73. Ciao Bella
Italian
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Rank 74. Unico Gelato & Caffè
Ice Cream
In a quiet corner of St. John's Wood, Unico dispenses gelato with the precision of a jeweler setting stone, each flavor distinct and unsweetened enough to taste like fruit rather than candy. The counter staff move without fuss; you leave with cold cream that tastes inevitable.
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Rank 75. Fortitude Bakehouse
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 77. St. John
British
In a converted Victorian smokehouse near Barbican, St. John practices a plainspoken gospel of nose-to-tail cooking and fresh pastry with the devotion of a monk. The madeleines arrive warm, the offal unflinching, the whole enterprise a rebuke to fashion.
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Rank 78. Master Wei Xi'An
Chinese
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Rank 79. Osteria Vibrato
Italian
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Rank 80. Burro
Italian
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Rank 85. HIMI
Japanese
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Rank 87. Donia
Filipino
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Rank 89. Bocca di Lupo
Italian
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Rank 90. Kiln
Thai
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Rank 93. Akoko
West African
Akoko's kitchen takes West African ingredients and technique—palm oil, fermented grains, slow-cooked proteins—and builds them into a tasting menu that moves with both intellectual rigor and genuine pleasure. The dining room on Berners Street feels like an arrival; you leave convinced you've witnessed something durable.
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Rank 95. Impala
Egyptian
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Rank 96. Chin Chin Dessert Club
Ice Cream
A narrow Soho parlor with polished surfaces and a gleam of refinement where ice cream becomes an occasion rather than an afterthought. The flavors bend toward invention—not gimmickry—and each spoon registers as a small discovery.
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Rank 98. Arôme Bakery
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 99. Nina
Italian
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