The Top 91 Restaurants in London
The best restaurants in London, by the professional record: 50 Best, Michelin Guide, and The Infatuation have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Ikoyi Restaurant comes out on top.
Core by Clare Smyth and Mountain hold the next two places. The Infatuation shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Michelin Guide next.
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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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Rank 2. Core by Clare Smyth
Modern British
Clare Smyth was the first British woman to hold three Michelin stars, and Core, her own Notting Hill fine dining room, holds three of its own. The tasting menus split neatly between seasonal new work and signatures like a potato dish finished with herring and trout roe instead of the expected caviar. Hogget, mutton, and vegetables carry the same weight here as truffle does elsewhere, which is either refreshing or quietly confrontational, depending on your table.
- Michelin Guide 3 Stars
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #87 · The National Restaurant Awards
- The Infatuation #16 · The 25 Best Restaurants In London
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Rank 2. 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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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 5. Bouchon Racine
French
The menu changes daily, chalked up fresh, though escargots and steak tartare have a way of always being there when you need them. Henry Harris runs this upstairs French bistro above a Clerkenwell pub as a love letter to Lyon and Paris, done without fanfare or a PR budget, which somehow makes it feel more French. It took the National Restaurant of the Year prize in 2026. Vegetarians will find it a struggle; everyone else will find it hard to leave.
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #1 · The National Restaurant Awards
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · National Restaurant of the Year · The National Restaurant Awards
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Rank 5. St. John
Traditional British
The whitewashed walls of this old Smithfield smokehouse went stripped-back before stripped-back was a design choice. Fergus Henderson's nose-to-tail restaurant holds a Michelin star and has been teaching chefs to use the whole animal for decades. Bone marrow on toast with parsley salad is the dish people make pilgrimages for, but the room's easy conviviality makes the whole meal feel like someone just happened to cook very well.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #96 · The National Restaurant Awards
- The Infatuation #3 · The 25 Best Restaurants In London
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Rank 7. Gymkhana
Indian
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Rank 7. Kiln
Thai, South East Asian
The clay pots, woks, and open grill do most of the talking at this compact, no-bookings Thai spot on Brewer Street. The menu pulls from northern Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, and Yunnan, and when the kitchen says something is hot, believe them. Ingredients are sourced with quiet obsession, Cornish dayboats and serious British meat producers, at prices that make the Michelin Bib Gourmand feel like an understatement. Get there early, and grab the counter if you can.
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- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #21 · The National Restaurant Awards
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 7. Luca
Italian
The pasta course at this Clerkenwell Italian draws the room together: cappelletti of salt-baked potato, tortelli of pumpkin with ricotta, all made with the kind of attention that treats fresh pasta as a serious subject. The kitchen runs a "Britalian" line, pairing Italian technique with Orkney scallops and Hebridean lamb. The 1950s art deco interior seats well over a hundred, yet it still reads as a proper grown-up dinner. Holds a Michelin star.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
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Rank 10. BiBi
Indian
Chet Sharma studied physics at Oxford, did a PhD, and then decided kitchens were more interesting, which tells you something about what progressive Indian fine dining in Mayfair looks like at BiBi. The menu shifts with the seasons and the sourcing, leaning on small UK suppliers alongside carefully traced ingredients from India. The room feels more like Sharma's grandmothers' living room than a colonial-era throwback, which around here is a deliberate statement.
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- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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The kitchen counter at this Fitzrovia fine dining room puts you close enough to watch the team work through dishes rooted in West African tradition, from Ghanaian and Senegalese to Nigerian, each one handled with the kind of care that earns a Michelin star. The cooking stays true to regional flavors while finding its own register, which turns out to be a more interesting argument for a cuisine than any manifesto could make.
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Rank 11. Impala
Egyptian Middle Eastern
The name comes not from the antelope but from a cherry-red 1964 Chevrolet the chef drove around Egypt as a kid, which tells you most of what you need to know about how personal this Soho restaurant is. Egyptian and North London cooking wind together across a menu that moves through wood-oven breads, grilled meats, pilaf, and pasta, with duck roasted in molasses and fig sauce as the dish people can't stop talking about. It landed at number 15 on the National Restaurant Awards list.
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Rank 13. 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 13. 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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Rank 13. Miga
Korean
The bone broth recipe alone has been in the family for generations, which tells you most of what you need to know about this bright, airy Korean restaurant on Mare Street. Dad runs the open kitchen while his sons work the room, and a mural outside traces the whole culinary lineage back to Seoul. The menu is modern Korean without being showy about it, and the Michelin Bib Gourmand keeps the crowds loyal without tipping the place into self-importance.
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #56 · The National Restaurant Awards
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation #6 · The 25 Best Restaurants In London
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Rank 13. 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 17. One Club Row
Modern British
The entrance is a graffiti-covered door behind a Shoreditch pub, which tells you almost nothing about the bright, panelled dining room upstairs. Paris brasserie meets New York tavern is the pitch, and it mostly checks out: big flavours, generous portions, martinis leaning hard into the pour. Counter seats put you closest to a team that seems to be having the best night in the room. A National Restaurant Awards listing in 2026 confirms what the regulars already knew.
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #41 · The National Restaurant Awards
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation #9 · The 25 Best Restaurants In London
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Rank 18. Osteria Vibrato
Italian
The owner's former career as an opera singer gives this compact Soho trattoria its name, and something of its personality. Osteria Vibrato draws from across Italy rather than a single region, with a menu written in English on one side and Italian on the other, and a 300-bin natural wine list that leans heavily Italian. Rosewood panels, leather banquettes, and candlelight keep things warm without tipping into fussy, and the late-night Soho energy does the rest.
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Rank 18. Oudh 1722
Awadhi Indian
Aktar Islam, the chef behind Birmingham's two-Michelin-starred Opheem, chose a quietly off-pitch spot near Borough Market for his London debut, which says something about his confidence. Oudh 1722 is an upscale Indian restaurant spread across three floors of a Victorian building, dedicated entirely to Awadhi cuisine, the slow-cooked, court-refined tradition of Lucknow. Dum cooking, sealed and unhurried, anchors the menu. The National Restaurant Awards named it One to Watch for 2026.
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Rank 18. Simpson's in the Strand
British Cocktail Bar
Master Carvers in toques wheel silver trolleys of roast rib of Devonshire beef through one of London's grandest dining rooms, and the effect is exactly as theatrical as it sounds. This is old-school British fine dining, the kind that also finds room for railway mutton curry and spotted dick with custard. Jeremy King, the man behind The Wolseley and The Ivy, revived the place after a long closure, keeping the ceremony intact while making it feel lived-in rather than museified.
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Rank 18. Teal by Sally Abé
British
The penny lick ice cream costs £1, a nod to a pre-cone Victorian street treat, with proceeds going to Hackney Food Bank. That detail tells you a lot about Teal. Sally Abé, formerly of The Ledbury and The Harwood Arms, has opened a high-reaching bistro on Wilton Way where the technique is fine-dining sharp but the mood is looser, more generous. Brawn scotch egg, devils on horseback, baked bone marrow with snails: classic British flavors, pulled tighter.
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #95 · The National Restaurant Awards
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Rank 18. The Dover
Italian
The plush red curtain parts to reveal a narrow wood-panelled bar that feels like Mayfair's idea of a Brooklyn red-sauce joint, which is exactly what it is. The Italian-American menu runs to spaghetti and meatballs and prawn cocktail with horseradish, all served with a studied elegance that stops just short of self-parody. Order a martini, because the staff will swap your glass for a freshly chilled one the moment it warms, which tells you everything about the tone of the room.
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #36 · The National Restaurant Awards
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Nacho Carbonell's ceiling installation, which calling a chandelier would be an understatement, sets the tone for this Italian restaurant inside a contemporary art space in north Kensington. The dining room itself reads as a permanent exhibition, with design-forward furniture and garden seating when the weather cooperates. The kitchen leans into traditional Italian cooking, lighter on fat than the classics usually allow, with pasta that earns the attention it gets.
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Rank 29. Donia
Filipino
Perched on the top floor of Kingly Court, this Filipino restaurant holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a room with a history of turning into something better than you expected. The chef grew up in the UK, so the menu runs Filipino flavors through British produce, with dishes like chicken inasal and lechon with liver and peppercorn sauce doing most of the talking. Come with friends and a tolerance for noise.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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The interior glows like a lantern, which is precisely what the chef intended when he commissioned Danish architect David Thulstrup to do the copper panels and steel mesh ceiling. This is a high-end tasting menu restaurant just south of Piccadilly, rooted loosely in Nigerian flavors but unbound by them, moving freely between smoked jollof rice with lobster and whatever else Chan's sourcing dictates. Spice is controlled, produce is serious, and the bill is steep.
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Rank 31. Perilla
Modern European New American
Natural light pours into this Newington Green restaurant where pendant lamps hang over a mix of marble and wood tables, and a bare brick wall behind the bar does most of the decorating. The kitchen has a fine-dining pedigree but the room doesn't perform that way. Modern European cooking, menus that change daily, seasonal ingredients taken seriously. The kind of neighbourhood spot that pulls people from further away than they'd usually admit.
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Rank 32. Belly
Filipino
A Filipino bistro on Kentish Town Road where the menu is short enough to read twice and still leave you in genuine trouble deciding. The cooking is bold and a little unexpected, the kind that makes you want to come back before you've even paid the bill. The frozen custard profiterole with fish sauce caramel sounds like a dare and tastes like a good idea. Warm room, no pretension, and the Michelin Guide has noticed.
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Rank 32. Burro
Italian
The name means butter, which gives you a reasonable preview of the cooking philosophy at this Italian restaurant tucked into a secluded courtyard off Floral Street in Covent Garden. High ceilings and a terrace keep it feeling more civilised than the tourist bustle outside would suggest. The team behind Trullo in Islington opened this, and the tiramisu doughnuts have already become a talking point among the sort of people who track these things.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 32. DALLA
Italian
The tiramisu lives permanently in the glass vitrine outside the kitchen; everything else shifts with Italy's seasons, moving from northern richness in winter to lighter southern seafood and vegetables come summer. Dalla is a neighbourhood Italian in Hackney built on the traditional antipasti-to-secondi structure, and it carries itself with the easy warmth the name implies. It landed at number 70 on the National Restaurant Awards list in 2026.
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Rank 32. Dim Sum Duck
Cantonese
No reservations, a queue out the door by noon, and a gazebo on the pavement that somehow makes waiting feel intentional. This small, family-run Cantonese spot on King's Cross Road keeps things simple and unadorned, with a wide menu of carefully cooked dishes that reward the patient. An hour in the queue is not unusual, but the team moves things along, and the room is lively enough to make you feel smug for staying.
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Rank 32. HIMI
Japanese
Counter seats facing the open kitchen are the ones to angle for at this Soho izakaya, where the vibe tips firmly toward cold beer and loosened collars after dark. The team behind Roji opened it recently, and the robata grill and deep-fryer do most of the talking: fried chicken, duck udon, red shrimp off the coals. Small, lively, and not the place for a quiet conversation.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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The bowl-shaped fermented rice pancake the place is named for comes from Sri Lanka, and ordering one here feels like an obligation rather than a choice. This casual Soho canteen holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for its Sri Lankan and Tamil Nadu street food, and the room moves fast, which suits the short eats and karis that fill the menu. It's the kind of spot where you eat quickly, spend modestly, and immediately wonder when you're coming back.
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Rank 32. Josephine Bouchon
Lyonnaise, French
Tightly packed tables, colourful posters on the walls, and a menu that reads like a love letter to Lyon: vol-au-vent, andouillette, frog's legs. Claude Bosi's Chelsea bouchon is an old-school French bistro in full earnest, with service delivered in high spirits and a wine list leaning heavily on French producers. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, and the set menu makes a compelling case for why.
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Rank 32. Legare
Italian
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Rank 32. Tiella by Dara Klein
Regional Italian
A former Victorian pub on Columbia Road, now a snug regional Italian trattoria where the cooking draws on Pugliese heritage and time spent in Emilia-Romagna. The portions are generous, the vibe is unpretentious, and the wine list was built with the chef's father at Artigiano Imports. Thirty covers go fast, so most people discover the bar seats or the front terrace by necessity rather than preference.
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Rank 32. Tollingtons
Seafood Basque
The stainless steel frying counters and Formica floors are still here from the chip shop this used to be, but the kitchen is now doing Basque-inflected seafood with serious intent. Order vermouth over ice at the front bar, or book one of the handful of tables out back for something more substantial. The chips bravas, made with beef dripping, have acquired the kind of following that makes regulars territorial about them. It landed on the National Restaurant Awards list in 2026.
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Rank 32. Trullo
Italian
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation #20 · The 25 Best Restaurants In London
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Rank 43. Bocca di Lupo
Italian
The marble counter running along the open kitchen is the seat to ask for at this long-running Soho Italian, where the menu lists each dish's region of origin as if the boot itself were the organizing principle. The cooking leans into classic technique, the room hums most nights, and the service keeps pace. When dessert comes up, they run Gelupo, an ice cream shop across the street, which is a tidy arrangement.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 43. Osteria Angelina
Italian and Japanese
The pasta lab is visible from the dining room, which tells you everything about where the priorities are at this Italian-Japanese osteria in a converted East London yard. It's the looser, à la carte sibling of the kaiseki-leaning Angelina in Dalston, with grilling over binchotan doing as much heavy lifting as the handmade pasta. Order the house fries before someone at the next table does and spends the rest of dinner resenting you.
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Rank 45. Bao
Taiwanese
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Rank 45. Barrafina
Spanish
The only Barrafina in the small chain that won't take a booking, which means joining the queue, but the L-shaped counter and a glass of something cold make the wait feel intentional rather than punishing. It's a tapas bar in Soho, loud and lively, with a blackboard of the day's catch sitting beside the printed menu. Order the tortilla first, then start eyeing what the person next to you is having.
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Rank 45. Stanley's
Modern British
A flower-covered courtyard tucked behind Sydney Street, with a lean-to glasshouse for when London remembers it has weather. Stanley's is a neighborhood restaurant in the fullest Chelsea sense: regulars who never open the menu, seasonal Modern British cooking that lets a leek or a pork chop do the talking without much fuss from the kitchen. On a sunny afternoon, the courtyard fills up fast, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Rank 45. The Barbary
North African Middle Eastern
A 24-seat counter wrapping around a robata grill and a tandoor oven, tucked into Neal's Yard so discreetly that finding it feels like a reward in itself. The Barbary is a snug, smoke-forward counter restaurant pulling from the old Barbary Coast: harissa, dukkah, and zhoug turn up alongside charred octopus and cauliflower. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the knafeh is a good reason not to rush out.
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Rank 50. Sexy Fish
Asian
The coral reef ceiling by Damien Hirst sets the tone before you've ordered anything: this is Mayfair doing Asian-inspired food and cocktails with a straight face and a very large budget. The room is all bronzed mermaids and mirrored walls, and the crowd dresses accordingly. The bar program is serious despite the spectacle, and the kitchen sends out sushi and robata to tables full of people who booked weeks out.
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- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 51. Trattoria Brutto
Florentine Italian
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Rank 52. Normah's
Malaysian
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Rank 53. Berenjak Mayfair
Persian
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Rank 53. Eat Vietnam Bar B Grill 1
Vietnamese
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Rank 53. EDAMI
Lebanese
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Rank 53. Logma
Middle Eastern
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Rank 53. MAZA Mayfair
Greek
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Rank 53. Sonora Taquería
Mexican
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Rank 53. Tasty Jerk
Jamaican
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Rank 53. Tavern
Modern British
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Rank 53. Zeret Kitchen
Ethiopian
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Rank 63. Made in Italy
Italian
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The txuleton, a thick bone-in steak from older Basque cattle, is cooked over a wood-fired grill with nothing but salt and a lot of patience. This Shoreditch asador brings Basque grilling culture to London without softening it for the audience, and the room, all wooden tables and open flames, smells accordingly. It landed on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, which tells you what to order. Service runs on warmth rather than ceremony, the way it would back in San Sebastián.
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Rank 65. Ciao Bella
Italian
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Rank 65. Ida
Italian
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Rank 65. Nina
Italian
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Rank 65. OMBRA
Italian
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Rank 65. Tiella Trattoria & Bar
Italian
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Rank 71. 27 Romilly St
Persian
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Rank 71. Bancone Golden Square
Italian
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Rank 71. Bottarga
Greek
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Rank 71. Cadogan Arms
British Beer Bar
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Rank 71. Crunch
American
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Rank 71. DUCKSOUP
Modern Mediterranean Wine Bar
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Rank 71. Hunan
Chinese
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Rank 71. Ixchel
Mexican
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Rank 71. Koya Soho
Tokyo-style Noodles
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Rank 71. La Famiglia
Italian
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Rank 71. La Mia Mamma
Italian
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Rank 71. MARTINO'S
Italian
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Rank 71. Myrtle Restaurant
Irish British
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Rank 71. Phat Phuc Noodle Bar
Pan-Asian Noodles
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Rank 71. Rita's
American
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Rank 71. SOLA
American
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Rank 71. The Shaston Arms
British
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Rank 71. Villa Mamas
Bahraini Middle Eastern
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Rank 71. Zheng
Malaysian