London (Central)
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Polpo Smithfield, Italian and American restaurant, London EC1
Traditional Italian and American food, using high quality ingredients in a Venetian bàcaro style. Owners: Russell Norman and Richard Beatty. -
Roux at the Landau, Michelin-starred restaurant, London W1
Albert Roux and son, Michel Roux Jr run this restaurant at the Langham Hotel. Need we say more! French gourmet fine dining at its best. -
Polpo, Italian and American restaurant, London W1
Traditional Italian and American food, using high quality ingredients in a Venetian bàcaro style. Owners: Russell Norman and Richard Beatty. -
Royal Court Theatre Café, London SW1
Buzzing theatre café frequented by actors and directors. British food, with treats from Europe. Quality, choice, value for money. -
Oriental Dragon, Chinese restaurant, London W1
Chinese (Cantonese) restaurant serving very fresh seafood and meat dishes, including lots of offal dishes. High quality, intense flavours. Bare and functional interior. Highly rated restaurant. -
Bentley’s Oyster Bar & Grill, London W1
Traditional dark-wood panelled oyster bar. Bar and grill downstairs, restaurant upstairs. Chef: Richard Corrigan -
Shimogamo, Japanese restaurant, London NW1
Japanese restaurant near Regents Park, serving sushi, sashimi, sukiyaki (hotpots), teriyaki skewers, belly pork, sushi rolls with uni (the roe from sea urchins), kimchi, gyoza dumplings, Japanese salads, soba or udon noodles, plus a range of chef's specials. -
The Cinnamon Club, fine dining Indian restaurant, London SW1
Run by Vivek Singh, a frequent guest chef on Saturday Kitchen, the award-winning restaurant presents constantly evolving menus of modern fine-dining Indian food, and a carefully matched wine list, and is set in the historic Grade II listed former Westminster Library. -
The Gilbert Scott, fine dining restaurant, London NW1
Restaurant with beautiful and impressive décor in a magnificent restored Gothic hotel, serving classic and modern British food in fine dining brasserie style. Chef: Marcus Wareing. -
Yum Bun, stuffed rice buns, London N1C and E8
Pillow-soft steamed rice buns, hand made from scratch and filled with quality ingredients from award-winning producers. Served from market stalls: Eat Street (N1C) and Broadway Market (E8). -
Bocca di Lupo, Italian restaurant, London W1
Authentic Italian restaurant, specialising in the obscure and the delicious highlights of food and wine from all across Italy's twenty regions. -
Big Apple Hotdogs, London EC1
Cheap, high-quality hot dogs, 94-98% meat (pork, beef, or pork and beef) with a choice of free toppings and relishes. -
Burger & Lobster, American diner, London W1
American style. No menu, just burger or lobster or lobster roll. Address: 29 Clarges Street, Mayfair, London W1J 7EF. -
Oblix, restaurant in The Shard, London SE1
Classily handled comfort food 32 floors up in The Shard, just south of the River Thames, with fantastic views. Main courses tend to focus on meat cooked on a rotisserie, grill, or charcoal oven (josper oven). -
Newman Street Tavern, London W1
Newman Street Tavern serves elegant British food using best quality seasonal, specialist and wild produce from around the UK. -
Master and Servant, restaurant, London N1
Short and constantly changing menu which aims to bring together new combinations of flavours, with varying results from "excellent" to "didn't really work", according to the critics. Exposed brickwork and mirrors décor. -
Lima, Peruvian restaurant, London W1
Fine dining Peruvian cuisine in a modern atmosphere. -
José, tapas bar, London SE1
Tiny tapas and sherry bar, serving the best of fresh produce from the morning's markets, which tends to get packed and crushed at peak times. Chef: José Pizzaro. -
Mari Vanna, Russian restaurant, London SW1
(Russian) Georgian food, in shabby chic, over-the-top style. Authentic Georgian cooking widely praised by critics. -
Ottolenghi, Mediterranean restaurant, London N1
Mediterranean food restaurant whose philosophy requires that everything is hand-crafted with extreme care and attention, from basic raw ingredients. -
Honey & Co, café, London W1
Middle Eastern café, run by ex-Ottolenghi chefs Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer. Jewish food from Algeria to Morocco and Iraq. -
Restaurant Story, London SE1
New restaurant run by chef Tom Sellers, which has gone down extremely well with the critics and is very hard to get a booking at. Very experimental food which will delight foodies looking for something different. -
Balthazar, French restaurant, London WC2
A copy of the famous Balthazar restaurant in Manhattan, French brasserrie style in décor and food, with Amercian-style service. Mixed reviews from the critics regarding the standard of the food. Sumptuous interior. -
Koffman at The Berkeley, London SW1
Chef Pierre Koffman, who held three Michelin stars at his own restaurant La Tante Claire, has come out of retirement to run a restaurant the The Berkeley in Knightsbridge. -
Benares, Michelin starred Indian restaurant, London W1
Michelin starred Indian restaurant, run by chef Atul Kochhar. A really different Indian dining experience from what we have become accustomed to in the UK.
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