London Restaurants

Asia de Cuba combines elements of Asian and Cuban cuisine served sharing-style in a high energy, sophisticated, yet relaxed environment. Located on St. Martins Lane, Asia de Cuba is a one-of-a-kind space centered around a series of majestic "art columns", each displaying a different and stunning composition. The Asia de Cuba concept also includes the famous Rum Bar; it has the largest selection of "sipping" rums available in London, as well as unusual and intriguing selection of specialty cocktails, many of which are Asia de Cuba signatures.

An always popular restaurant on the style-forward Kings Road in London’s Chelsea, Benihana offers an exciting take on Japanese dining. A concept originated way back in the 1960s over in the Big Apple, Benihana brings together food and performance, pioneering ‘eatertainment’. Ideal for families, Benihana is sleek and stylish with a modern interior, but chances are you won’t be paying much attention to your surroundings – most diners are too busy being charmed by the tableside teppan-yaki cookery which sees the chefs create real drama before your very eyes. In addition to the delicious personally created dishes cooked and served at your table, Benihana also offers eat in and lunchtime take away sushi.

Situated in a Grade II listed Victorian building, this Covent Garden restaurant and martini bar is something of a London institution. Christopher’s restaurant is housed in a stunning building; Victorian features such as the high moulded ceilings have been preserved, and tall windows in the dining room offer views over Waterloo Bridge. Decor is elegant - rich deep colours are complemented by soft, subtle lighting and starched white linen. The food here is best described as modern American. Steaks are the star of the show and the grill section of the menu features a tempting range of American steak and lobster dishes.

Welcome to Corrigan’s Mayfair – the newest home of acclaimed Irish chef, Richard Corrigan. Corrigan’s Mayfair redefines the concept of quintessential British cuisine. Fusing seasonal produce with Richard’s unmistakable flair, it offers some of the most refreshing dishes to whet London’s appetites in a very long time. Inspired by Richard’s humble, rural upbringing, Corrigan’s Mayfair brings honest, no-nonsense food to one of the city’s most enviable postcodes. Corrigan's Mayfair combines 21st century luxury and style with down-to-earth, home-inspired cooking. Corrigan's Mayfair also has two private dining rooms.

Inspired by luxury and executed with impeccable taste, Les Trois Garcons is a place to marvel. The dark interior is softened by candle light and the reflective sparkles from the chandeliers. An electric blend of furniture and objects selected carefully to achieve sheer opulence. Chef Michael Chan creates a menu packed with flavours using classic French techniques with an modern approach. His philosophy is to use the best seasonal ingredients available on the market from forager herbs to award winning Herdwick lamb.

One of London’s most beautiful restaurants L’Oranger offers a perfect haven in St James’s in which to enjoy the Provencal cuisine of chef Laurent Michel. From his three Michelin star background, Laurent brings an elegance and subtlety to the French Classics. Whilst the rest of London offers diners cutting edge menus, there is comfort in the knowledge that L’Oranger delivers the seasonal French classics time and again executed to perfection. The service and environment is traditional but warm, serving comfortably spaced tables, with highly polished silverware and crisp white linen. Aged oak panels surrounds the restaurant itself and the interior is lit by a glass-domed ceiling.

The eponymous Nobu London was the first European venture for the celebrated Japanese chef Nobu Matsuhisa. Opened in conjunction with partners Robert De Niro, restaurateur Drew Nieporent, managing partner Richard Notar, and hotel owner Christina Ong, the restaurant occupies the first floor of The Metropolitan Hotel on Park Lane. The menu at Nobu London, draws heavily on Matsuhisa's classic Japanese training as a sushi chef in Tokyo, as well as on South American influences gained during his extensive travels. This innovative "new style" Japanese cuisine has become both his trademark and the foundation of his success.

As close as it gets to a flag-ship, Islington is the biggest Ottolenghi and a proper restaurant. As well as take-away food, we seat about 50 in the cool, sophisticated-yet-laid-back environment, mostly around communal tables (with a few small tables for two). The restaurant, just opposite the Almeida theatre, serves hot breakfast, voted by the Observer the best in town (get the French toast or make your own toast at the table), lunch from the counter (call us around 11am, and we can email you a copy of the daily menu) and amazing hot food from the kitchen at dinner time, served to share in mezze size portions. We take bookings for dinner but not during the day. If you want to have brunch on the weekend try to arrive early, to avoid the long queues.

The Pacific Oriental is housed within an impressive high-ceilinged period building, creating a dramatic effect from the moment you walk through the door. Pacific Oriental is renowned for both fine dining and its buzzing bar atmosphere. On the ground floor there is also an informal, luxurious-style brassiere. From the menu, you might come across starters such as duck and tamarind gyozas, followed by a main course of Sukiyaki beef with udon noodles. Lovers of Japanese cuisine will find that Pacific Oriental has an ample selection of nigiri, maki, sashimi and tempuras.

Jun Tanaka’s Pearl is one of London’s most glamorous dining rooms. From the moment you walk in, the restaurant exudes opulence with trails of hand-strung pearls, pearl chandeliers and walnut interior. An exquisite modern French menu changes seasonally and is complemented by the stunning surroundings of the restaurant. Pearl’s award-winning wine list features over 200 wines stored in the expertly crafted wine cellar. Set in the former banking halls of the Pearl assurance company, Pearl was designed by internationally renowned United Designers with the brief to carry the heritage of the past into the future.

The Rex Whistler Restaurant at Tate Britain is home to one of the most original restaurants in London bringing together a great modern British menu, award winning wines and a spectacular mural. Head Chef Paul Newbury has created a delightful menu of contemporary British cuisine using the finest ingredients available to develop a menu that suits a broad range of tastes. The restaurant is also home of the award winning Tate wine list compiled by Head Sommelier Hamish Anderson.

Serving Aces since 1969. Wimbledon's most prestigious restaurant has served both a local and an international clientéle for almost 40 years, with a unique blend of Tuscan-rooted recipes. Virtually everything, from bread to cantucci, pasta and ice-cream is hand-made on the premises, ensuring a culinary style of the highest quality, true to it's maternal traditions. Deceptively large, with modern, classic interiors furnished with many important artworks, and with a beautiful summer courtyard for perfectly secluded al-fresco dining, right in the heart of SW19. Possibly the most enduring restaurant south of the river, San Lorenzo Fuoriporta's longevity reflects its SW3 pedigree by adhering to the same basic principles of quality and simplicity.

Small but perfectly formed, as the saying goes, the Scandinavian Verru restaurant is nestled in the very heart of London’s lovely Marylebone Village in the West End. Great effort has gone in to creating a chic but unpretentiously frill free interior here, in a long, narrow dining room with exposed brick walls, large mirrors and parquet flooring, the simplicity of the décor recognisably true to the roots of the Verru menu. Indeed Executive Chef and owner Andrei Lesment, previously at big name London restaurants such as Maze and Pied a Terre, has plundered his own Estonian background as well as the flavours of its Baltic neighbours in creating Verru’s two AA Rosette daily changing menu.

Following the success of their Oyster & Porter House in Borough Market, the Wright Brothers is joining the culinary renaissance happening in this area of Soho. Wright Brothers Soho will be showcasing the biggest selection of oysters in London and the freshest seafood caught from Cornish day-boats. With vast experience in the kitchen David Gingell & Jai Parkinson (Wolseley, St.Alban, Galvin, Terroir & Wright Brothers Oyster & Porter House...)will be preparing staple and classic seafood dishes unique to their new site.

Michelin starred Yauatcha, in the heart of Soho, is an informal dining dim sum teahouse offering an all day grazing experience by providing modern authentic dim sum and teas at exceptional quality and value. The palette of design materials used throughout the space informs a modern interpretation of the old Chinese teahouse. At the same time, the lighting and seating environment embody the atmosphere of a congenially vibrant ‘chatter shop’, akin to the traditional Hong Kong dim sum restaurants during the early hours of the morning. Yauatcha’s newly opened bar, on the ground floor, allows diners to enjoy an innovative range of cocktails along with ‘small eats’ at any time of the day.