Best Restaurants in London

Nobu Mayfair

Nobu Berkeley St is located at 15 Berkeley Street in the heart of Mayfair. The critically acclaimed Nobu Berkeley St is now one of London’s most fashionable restaurants and has also been the venue for some of the capitals most high profile parties. Located over two floors, Nobu Berkeley St which was designed by celebrated designer David Collins is open for lunch and dinner and houses a suitably glamorous 200 cover restaurant and a stylish, yet relaxed lounge bar with a licence until 2am.

http://www.noburestaurants.com/london/index.html

Claridges

Unforgettable fine dining in London's most luxurious restaurant Welcome to the exclusive world of Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's where you can experience exquisite world-renowned cuisine. Lavishly redesigned by New York architect Thierry Despont, Gordon Ramsay restaurant at Claridge's retains its beautiful Art Deco features. Gordon Ramsay presents enticing modern European dishes.

http://www.claridges.co.uk/page.aspx?id=1786

The Ivy

"Still Theatre Restaurant No. 1, the hot, post-theatre table everyone wants to nail. But what is it exactly that gives the Ivy its unique edge? A clubby, timeless room with virtually no bad tables; a kind of imperceptible attitude of noblesse oblige so that, once seated, Joe Collins gets the same treatment as Joan or Phil Collins, and food that is consistently good and not overpriced. A typical post-show dinner might be dressed crab followed by calf's liver and bacon - simple and unpretentious."

Jeremy Wayne, Tatler 2009

http://www.the-ivy.co.uk/

Bibendum

Dining at the Restaurant is a visual feast as well as a treat for the tastebuds. During the day, light streams through the spectacular stained glass windows, and the high-ceilinged Restaurant buzzes with reassuring activity. Comfy chairs and well-spaced tables add to the feeling of space. The evening brings with it a sense of elegance and glamour, and the right combination of welcome, attentiveness and professionalism has been honed to perfection over the Restaurant's 20-year history. Dining at the Restaurant always feels like a special occasion.

http://www.bibendum.co.uk/

Hakkasan

Hakkasan feels like a cinematic vision of the sexiest nightclub you'd never been to. Often imitated but never bettered, Hakkasan's design divides the bar, with its team of cocktail shakers and soundtrack setting DJ, from the central dining area via a lacquered lattice of carved Chinese screens, from behind which impossibly glamorous waiting staff emerge to deliver dishes from a Michelin-star winning, modern Cantonese menu created by chef Tong Chee Hwee.

http://www.hakkasan.com/

Abracadabra Russian Restaurant

The Abracadabra Restaurant serves an authentic and eclectic menu of delicious, wholesome dishes from around the world including a wide selection of Russian & Eastern European dishes. The restaurant is space with rich decor, occupying a large area below Jermyn Street. No expense has been spared to provide a multifarious dining room featuring private dining booths - each offering its own unique experience, a large revolving table, private dining rooms and a large main dining area which can be easily adapted to house almost any function.

http://www.abracadabra-restaurant.co.uk/

Yauatcha

There's something indefinable about Yauatcha. It's part luxury dim sum restaurant, part tea-house and French patisserie. As such it is a grand assembly of the world's most refined food. It's perhaps fitting then that this Michelin-starred restaurant is situated on the corner of one of London's oldest fruit and veg markets, at the very heart of Soho. Because while Yauatcha is so modern in attitude it's also clear about the debt it owes to some of the oldest culinary traditions.

http://www.yauatcha.com/

The Wolseley

The Wolseley is a café-restaurant in the grand European tradition located in St James' on London's most famous of boulevards, Piccadilly. 160 Piccadilly is a Grade II Listed Building. We have several menus in the Grand Café tradition including breakfast, morning pastries, afternoon tea, and an all day menu with sandwiches, salads, crustacea and plats du jour.

http://www.thewolseley.com/

Quaglinos

From its inception by Giovanni Quaglino in 1929 to its reinvention by Terence Conran in 1991, Quaglino's has always been the place for celebratory drinks and dining. Fashionably glamorous, the restaurant has over the decades welcomed people from every walk of life and is still the place to see and be seen.

http://www.quaglinos.co.uk/

The Connaught

For many years the restaurant at the Connaught in Mayfair has been one of London's greatest gastronomic experiences. Now, Hélène Darroze, one of France's most distinguished chefs, is at the helm of the Connaught's kitchens and the Connaught's love affair with gastronomy is entering a new, exciting phase. The new restaurant in London, 'Hélène Darroze at the Connaught', like The Coburg Bar, has been designed by Parisian designer India Mahdavi. Hélène is inspired by authentic regional and seasonal flavours, with roots in her native Landes region of South West France. With cooking in her DNA, she worked as Alain Ducasse's right hand woman at the Louis XV restaurant in Monte Carlo. Already the proud holder of two Michelin stars for her restaurant on the Left Bank in Paris, Hélène has recently received her first Michelin star for Hélène Darroze at the Connaught in the Great Britain and Ireland 2009 Michelin Guide. The London restaurant has also been awarded three AA Rosettes for 2009.

http://www.the-connaught.co.uk/london_restaurant.aspx