The Best Restaurants in London for 2023, from well-seasoned favourites to tasty newcomers
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Contemporary restaurant Roka Mayfair is famed for its delectable robatayaki cuisine, which involves placing seafood and vegetables over hot charcoal. On the menu is a tempting mix of sushi and sashimi to tempura, snacks and salads, making it perfect ...
ROKA Mayfair
Visit characterful new pub and restaurant The Barley Mow in the heart of Mayfair. Tuck into Scotch eggs and sausage rolls washed down with ales and lagers in the pub, or head upstairs to the stylish first-floor restaurant for daily roasts from the ca...
The Barley Mow – Westminster's Favourite Pub
When chef Douglas McMaster opened Silo in Brighton in 2014, most people’s response to ‘zero waste’ would have been ‘zero what?!’ McMaster was well and truly ahead of the green curve with his innovative approach to cooking based on the simple but quit...
Silo London
This small Stoke Newington cafe seriously overdelivers, preparing some of London’s best American diner-style smash burgers, Nashville hots, playful samosas, and the inimitable chicken makhani sandwich come the weekend, with a solid core menu for week...
Bake Street
Max Fishman’s Quarter Kitchen — the breakfast and lunch kiosk which he opened with chef Rodrigo Cervantes in a Hackney churchyard in the summer of 2022 — serves some of London’s best Mexican food.
Bad Manners
Trullo’s elegant dining room and simple, seasonal food make it one of London’s best Italian restaurants and one of its finest neighbourhood restaurants. Dark wood, low lighting, white tablecloths, and straightforward plating make Trullo decidedly ant...
Trullo
The area around Euston station is replete with no-frills, delicious places to eat. This little Malaysian basement setup from chef Sugen Gopal on Doric Way may be the best. Two pieces of freshly made, high-moisture roti canai — to eat in or take away ...
Roti King
At the late chef Kate Armah’s outstanding east London neighbourhood Ghanaian restaurant, the sharing platter — which includes tsofi, chicken wings, kebabs, plantains, and more — is the manifestation of generosity in hospitality. Other highlights incl...