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Who needs diplomatic relations with France when the Ambassador creates so well the food we hope to find there? A proper all-day café, with wide-open doors and tables...
Clerkenwell: 55 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QL
Chef and co-owner Anthony Demetre oversees a consistent kitchen and an enticing menu strong on hearty British fare, accented with continental flavours. Seasonality...
Soho: 63-64 Frith Street, W1D 3JW
When Rowley Leigh left KP after 20 years as chef in 2006, the doom-sayers predicted it was the end of the line for this Notting Hill pioneer. That didn’t stop D&D...;
Kensington: 201-209 Kensington Church Street, W8 7LX
3 course fixed price menu, including a glass of wine for £19.50The locations in Joël Robuchon’s restaurant empire sound like 007 stopovers – Macau, Hong Kong, Monaco – but Robuchon is no Bond baddie, he’s a French...
Covent Garden: 13-15 West Street, WC2H 9NE
3 courses for £69This sister restaurant to the fabled Pied à Terre made its debut in autumn 2007 with talented chef Marcus Eaves at the helm. Prices are at a level that suggests...
Marylebone: 5-7 Blandford Street, W1U 3DB
Behind the silky threads that screen the discreetly wealthy clientele from the street, this haute-cuisine haunt, soothingly decorated in shades of lilac and dove grey,...
Gloucester Road: 36 Gloucester Road, SW7 4QT
To describe this as Balham’s best restaurant doesn’t do it justice. Lamberts is more than able to hold its own in any neighbourhood. It is run with mustard-keen...
Balham: 2 Station Parade, Balham High Road, SW12 9AZ
In autumn 2007, Launceston Place was acquired by D&D; London, owners of Coq d’Argent, Plateau, Sartoria, Le Pont de la Tour and numerous other top-end establishments....
Kensington: 1A Launceston Place, W8 5RL
3 course fixed price menu (Lunch) for £18Chef-proprietor Rowley Leigh’s new restaurant opened to great acclaim at the end of 2007. There have been grumbles since, but we found little to complain about on a...
Bayswater: 8 Porchester Gardens, W2 4DB
Under chef Bryn Williams, a representative of Wales in the second Great British Menu series, the new-look Odette’s has become more than a useful local in a chi-chi...
Camden: 130 Regent's Park Road, NW1 8XL
Since opening in 2003, this sleek, family-run venture has garnered a following of customers discussing business over an impeccable lunch, or dining peacefully in...
Mayfair: 4 Mill Street, W1S 2AX
40% off the total food bill‘You can never get in here without a booking,’ said the beautifully suited man at the next table. ‘And you know, it has never even been in a guide book,’...
Mayfair: Sotheby's, 34-35 New Bond Street, W1S 2RT
A cool sedate restaurant tucked away to one side of the forecourt at Kew’s pretty mid-Victorian railway station, the Glasshouse is well worth the readies. Patrons of...
Kew: 14 Station Parade, Kew, Surrey, TW9 3PZ
It only takes a few seconds after crossing the threshold of this sister of Arbutus to be won over by the charm and professionalism of the place. The oak-panelled walls...
Mayfair: 12 St George Street, W1S 2FB
Ramsay and Hartnett's new bar, restaurant and hotel
Camden: 127-129 Parkway, NW1 7PS
This light-filled, white-painted room above the Design Museum remains one of the best places to dine beside the river. Tables by the (often open) windows are at a...
Tower Bridge: Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, SE1 2YD
3 course fixed price menu (Lunch & Dinner) for £20Everything you could wish for in a local restaurant is present and correct here. Pistachio-painted rooms are furnished with minimalist flair and some remarkable modern...
Kensington: 11 Abingdon Road, W8 6AH
You can’t beat the Michelin building for charm, with those Michelin men brandishing bicycle tyres in the stained-glass windows, lying in mosaic form on the floor and...
South Kensington: Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, SW3 6RD
It was the mid 1980s when Sally Clarke, inspired by her experiences dining at Chez Panisse in California, brought something fresh, light and sunny to a dour and grey...
Kensington: 124 Kensington Church Street, W8 4BH
This popular Bermondsey lunch spot began life as a canteen for the resident artists of the Delfina Studio. Although no longer run by the Delfina Studio Trust (it was...
London Bridge: 50 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3UD
At Fouronine you press a buzzer by the front door and (assuming you’re not selling encyclopedias) someone lets you in and shows you to your table. Whether this is to...
Clapham: 409 Clapham Road, SW9 9BT
Harrison’s , the latest venture of Sam Harrison (co-owner of Sam’s Brasserie in Chiswick), opened in October 2007. Like the west London original, this is a lovely...
Balham: 15-19 Bedford Hill, SW12 9EX
Sundry media bigwigs, heiresses, chefs and restaurateurs congregate here, paying top whack (starters are £11-£15, mains £14-£29) to eat amid potted plants, their...
Richmond: Church Lane, off Petersham Road, Petersham, nr Richmond, Surrey, TW10 7AG
Plateau is about occasion dining. The occasion in question here is impress-the-client business entertaining, Canary Wharf-style. Which means expense-account prices, a...
Docklands: Canada Place, Canada Square, E14 5ER
3 course fixed price menu (Lunch & Dinner) for £25John Torode’s eating and drinking emporium – each floor with a different offer – continues to attract Smithfield socialisers. It’s a former warehouse, with...
Farringdon: 67-77 Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HJ
The Barnes faithful have kept Sonny’s thriving for almost a quarter of a century. It’s part of a trio of neighbourhood restaurants run by Rebecca Mascarenhas,...
Barnes: 94 Church Road, SW13 0DQ
The glass wall frontage brings a touch of metropolitan modernism to this old-school street, and the cavernous space remains a temple to hard-edged simplicity. The...
St James's: 7-9 St James's Street, SW1A 1EE
2 course fixed price menu (Lunch & Dinner), including a half bottle of wine for £20Walk into this little place and you feel you’ve made a friend. The Anglo-French owners are exceptionally welcoming, greeting each arrival and chatting over wines and...
West Hampstead: 182 Broadhurst Gardens, NW6 3AY