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The National Gallery

★ 4.8 (62K)

🖼️The National Gallery

Museum

Occupying the north side of Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery holds one of the greatest collections of Western European painting in existence, sp…

art museumold mastersfree entryhistoric

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Central Park

$$★ 4.8 (300K)

🍽️Central Park

Restaurant

A neighbourhood favourite in Fulham, Central Park delivers confident, unfussy modern European cooking in a setting that feels genuinely lived-in: warm…

local favoritehidden gemmodern europeanneighbourhood dining

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Photo: Central Park Hotel

Churchill War Rooms

$$★ 4.6 (16K)

🖼️Churchill War Rooms

Museum

Preserved exactly as it was on the night the lights were switched off in 1945, the underground bunker where Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet dire…

historicworld war iiundergroundchurchill

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Photo: Adrian Smith

Trafalgar Square

★ 4.6 (139K)

🏛️Trafalgar Square

Landmark

London's great civic stage, where Nelson's Column rises 52 metres above four bronze lions and the city's gravitational centre seems to hold firm no ma…

historicscenicpublic squareart

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Photo: Naeem Qureshi

Restaurant Gordon Ramsay

$$$$★ 4.4 (1.8K)

🍽️Restaurant Gordon Ramsay

Restaurant

The Chelsea flagship that has held three Michelin stars longer than almost any other restaurant in the UK, and it earns them through consistency and c…

🏅 3 Michelin Stars; held continuously since 2001🏅 3 Michelin Stars, held continuously since 2001🏅 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations S01E01, Paris

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Photo: Restaurant Gordon Ramsay

Madame Tussauds London

$$★ 4.5 (85K)

🖼️Madame Tussauds London

Museum

The original wax-figure attraction, open in London since the 19th century, delivers an unapologetically theatrical experience across multiple themed z…

family friendlyentertainmentpop cultureinteractive

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Photo: Madame Tussauds London

The Ledbury

$$$$★ 4.7 (1.7K)

🍽️The Ledbury

Restaurant

Brett Graham's Notting Hill restaurant has long been the kind of place that serious food travellers build a London trip around, a calm, elegant room w…

🏅 3 Michelin Stars; Notting Hill; sustainability-minded menus using whole animals from chef Brett Graham's own farms🏅 3 Michelin Stars

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Primrose Hill

★ 4.8 (15K)

🌅Primrose Hill

Viewpoint

On a clear day, the 360-degree panorama from the summit of Primrose Hill is London laid out like a living map: the Shard, the BT Tower, the dome of St…

local favoritehidden gemviewpointscenic

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Photo: Martyna Panek

Big Ben

★ 4.6 (100K)

🗿Big Ben

Monument

The Elizabeth Tower and its great bell, known universally as Big Ben, remains the single image most synonymous with London: a florid Gothic Revival cl…

local favoritehidden gemiconicgothic revival

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Photo: Alex

Kensington Palace

$$★ 4.5 (32K)

🏛️Kensington Palace

Landmark

A working royal residence since the late 17th century, Kensington Palace sits at the western edge of Hyde Park with a quiet, almost domestic grandeur…

royalhistoricgardensfamily friendly

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Photo: Martin Dusil

Dukes Bar

$$$$★ 4.1 (240)

🍸Dukes Bar

Bar

Tucked inside Dukes Hotel in St. James's, this hushed, wood-panelled bar is the address for what many consider London's finest dry martini. White-jack…

🏅 Featured in Somebody Feed Phil, Season 3 Episode 3 (London, 2020); Phil, Monica Rosenthal, and Liam Charles enjoyed martinis at the bar reputed to be where Ian Fleming wrote the James Bond novels; loc

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Gymkhana

$$$★ 4.4 (3.4K)

🍽️Gymkhana

Restaurant

Gymkhana set a new standard for Indian fine dining in London when it opened on Albemarle Street, translating the atmosphere of colonial-era Indian spo…

🏅 2 Michelin Stars; Mayfair; Indian; second star added 2024🏅 2 Michelin Stars; first star 2014, second star 2024

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Borough Market

$$★ 4.6 (129K)

🏛️Borough Market

Landmark

London's most celebrated food market sits beneath the Victorian ironwork of London Bridge railway viaduct and draws an extraordinary concentration of…

local favoritehidden gemmarketfood market

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Photo: Terence Teo

The Wolseley Piccadilly

$$$★ 4.4 (7.8K)

🍽️The Wolseley Piccadilly

Restaurant

The Wolseley is London's great all-day Viennese-style café-restaurant, a place where morning newspapers, eggs Benedict, and schnitzel share equal bill…

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Core by Clare Smyth

$$$$★ 4.7 (1.6K)

🍽️Core by Clare Smyth

Restaurant

Core by Clare Smyth in Notting Hill represents the most focused expression of what British fine dining can achieve: Smyth, the first British woman to…

🏅 3 Michelin Stars; Notting Hill; held since opening in 2017🏅 3 Michelin Stars🏅 World's 50 Best: No. 32, World's 50 Best Bars 2024, Mexico City

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Photo: Core by Clare Smyth

Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal

$$$$★ 4.3 (198)

🍽️Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal

Restaurant

Alex Dilling's dining room inside the grand Hotel Café Royal on Regent Street operates at the very top of London's fine-dining register, with a classi…

🏅 2 Michelin Stars; modern French cuisine at historic Cafe Royal🏅 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations S01E01, Paris

frenchfine diningtasting menuluxury

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Photo: Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal

Clos Maggiore

$$$$★ 4.4 (3K)

🍽️Clos Maggiore

Restaurant

Clos Maggiore is routinely cited as one of the most romantic restaurants in London, and the conservatory dining room, draped in flowering cherry bloss…

🏅 Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy S1E4, Milan (Lombardy), Milan (Navigli district)🏅 World's 50 Best: No. 32, World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024, Tokyo

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KOL

$$$$★ 4.5 (978)

🍽️KOL

Restaurant

Chef Santiago Lastra's Marylebone restaurant is a rare and genuine thing: a sophisticated translation of Mexican culinary tradition built almost entir…

🏅 World's 50 Best: Ranked 49th on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 list; Marylebone; high-end Mexican restaurant using British ingredients; helmed by ex-Noma chef Santiago Lastra🏅 World's 50 Best: Ranked No. 49 globally on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 list; Mexican cuisine using predominantly UK ingredients🏅 World's 50 Best: Ranked No. 17 globally on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024 list; top-ranking London restaurant that year🏅 World's 50 Best: No. 17, World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024, London

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Photo: KOL

Singburi

$$★ 4.3 (910)

🍽️Singburi

Restaurant

Singburi is one of east London's most quietly revered Thai restaurants, a family-run room in Leytonstone where the cooking tracks northeastern Thai an…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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The Harp, Covent Garden

$★ 4.6 (3.7K)

🍸The Harp, Covent Garden

Bar

One of London's most celebrated real-ale pubs, The Harp earns its loyal following with an ever-rotating selection of cask ales and craft beers drawn f…

🏅 World's 50 Best: No. 32, World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024, Tokyo

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Photo: The Harp, Covent Garden

Queen Mary's Rose Gardens

★ 4.8 (5.8K)

🌿Queen Mary's Rose Gardens

Nature

The largest dedicated rose garden in the UK sits at the heart of Regent's Park, dazzling from late May through September with roughly 12,000 roses acr…

🏅 World's 50 Best: No. 32, World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024, Tokyo

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Photo: Ebrahim Al Homoud

Hawksmoor Air Street

$$$$★ 4.5 (5.5K)

🍽️Hawksmoor Air Street

Restaurant

Hawksmoor Air Street occupies a dramatically beautiful former ballroom just off Regent Street, all gilded ceilings, warm amber light, and the kind of…

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Corenucopia by Clare Smyth

$$$★ 4.6 (82)

🍽️Corenucopia by Clare Smyth

Restaurant

Clare Smyth, the chef behind Core, brings her celebrated ingredient-led philosophy to this more accessible format, where British produce is treated wi…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (new 2026); British cooking

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Photo: Corenucopia by Clare Smyth

BRAT Restaurant

$$$★ 4.5 (2.4K)

🍽️BRAT Restaurant

Restaurant

Tomos Parry's Shoreditch restaurant is built around a wood-fired grill and a deep, sincere love of the Basque Country, and it delivers something that…

🏅 Featured in Somebody Feed Phil, Season 3 Episode 3 (London, 2020); Phil dined with Nigella Lawson at Tomos Parry's wood-fired restaurant; shared anchovy and garlic bread, roasted langoustine, and whol🏅 1 Michelin Star🏅 World's 50 Best: Ranked No. 65 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 51-100 list 2024; Basque-inspired wood-grill cuisine🏅 World's 50 Best: No. 49, World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024, London

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Hélène Darroze at The Connaught

$$$$★ 4.5 (901)

🍽️Hélène Darroze at The Connaught

Restaurant

Tucked inside one of Mayfair's most storied hotels, Hélène Darroze's dining room is all burnished wood panelling, Damien Hirst portraits, and the quie…

🏅 3 Michelin Stars; Mayfair🏅 World's 50 Best: No. 13, World's 50 Best Bars 2024, London

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Photo: Hélène Darroze at The Connaught

Horniman Museum and Gardens

★ 4.6 (9.6K)

🖼️Horniman Museum and Gardens

Museum

A Forest Hill treasure that punches well above its weight: the Horniman holds one of London's most eccentric and beloved collections, from a walrus so…

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Photo: Nuno Carmo

Evelyn's Table

$$$$★ 4.9 (1.5K)

🍽️Evelyn's Table

Restaurant

Tucked beneath The Blue Posts pub in Soho, Evelyn's Table is an eight-seat counter restaurant where dinner feels like being cooked for by a friend who…

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Victoria and Albert Museum

★ 4.8 (68K)

🖼️Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

The V&A is the world's foremost museum of art and design, and walking its seemingly endless corridors feels like touring every human civilization at o…

art and designfashionhistoricfree entry

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Photo: Mr Wrong

Tower Bridge

$$★ 4.8 (184K)

🏛️Tower Bridge

Landmark

The most theatrical crossing in London, Tower Bridge raises its twin bascules for tall ships roughly 800 times a year and still draws a crowd every ti…

iconichistoricscenicriverside

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Hyde Park

★ 4.7 (142K)

🌿Hyde Park

Nature

At 350 acres, Hyde Park is less a park than a city within the city, a place where Londoners swim in the Serpentine at dawn, rent deck chairs in the af…

parkoutdoorfamily friendlyscenic

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Photo: Jennifer Phillips

Richmond Park

★ 4.8 (31K)

🌿Richmond Park

Nature

London's largest Royal Park is 2,500 acres of ancient woodland, open grassland, and bracken-covered hillside through which roughly 630 red and fallow…

local favoritehidden gemnaturewildlife

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Photo: Ronald Chan

Walthamstow Wetlands, London Wildlife Trust

★ 4.6 (2.9K)

🌿Walthamstow Wetlands, London Wildlife Trust

Nature

Europe's largest urban wetland reserve spreads across 211 hectares of Victorian reservoirs in north-east London, a genuinely unexpected wilderness ten…

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Photo: Eli Abramovitch

Sir John Soane's Museum

★ 4.7 (5.5K)

🖼️Sir John Soane's Museum

Museum

Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields is the closest thing London has to a cabinet of wonders: the eccentric, labyrinthine house of the grea…

historicarchitectureartintimate

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Photo: Angus Hamilton

Camden Market

$★ 4.6 (151K)

🏛️Camden Market

Landmark

Camden Market is London's great counterculture bazaar, a sprawling labyrinth of stalls, street food halls, independent shops, and live music venues st…

local favoritehidden gemmarketstreet food

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Photo: Manuel

Hard Rock Cafe

$$★ 4.7 (16K)

🍽️Hard Rock Cafe

Restaurant

The original Hard Rock Cafe on Old Park Lane is where the global chain began in 1971, and that origin story still carries genuine weight: the walls of…

local favoritehidden gemamericanburgers

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Josephine Bouchon - Chelsea

$$$★ 4.0 (467)

🍽️Josephine Bouchon - Chelsea

Restaurant

Josephine Bouchon transplants the Lyon bouchon tradition to the King's Road with a conviction that few French restaurants in London manage: checked ta…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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Photo: Josephine Bouchon - Chelsea

Noble Rot Soho

$$$★ 4.6 (749)

🍽️Noble Rot Soho

Restaurant

The Soho outpost of Noble Rot doubles down on what made the original Lamb's Conduit Street location a cult favourite: serious, joyfully geeky wine pai…

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The Clove Club

$$$$★ 4.6 (1.1K)

🍽️The Clove Club

Restaurant

The Clove Club in Shoreditch Town Hall is the kind of restaurant that made critics and chefs alike sit up and recalibrate their expectations of what m…

🏅 World's 50 Best: Ranked No. 80 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 51-100 list 2024

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Photo: Jerry Gibson

Kappacasein Dairy

$★ 4.5 (628)

🍽️Kappacasein Dairy

Restaurant

A Borough Market institution run by cheesemaker Bill Oglethorpe, Kappacasein is the stall responsible for introducing a generation of Londoners to rac…

🏅 Featured in Somebody Feed Phil, Season 3 Episode 3 (London, 2020); Phil's group tried the celebrated 'toastie' (grilled cheese sandwich) at Borough Market

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MAURO COLAGRECO

$$$$★ 4.7 (79)

🍽️MAURO COLAGRECO

Restaurant

The London outpost of Argentine-born, Menton-based chef Mauro Colagreco brings the nature-obsessed, garden-rooted cooking philosophy of his flagship M…

🏅 1 Michelin Star, first awarded 2025

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Photo: MAURO COLAGRECO

Covent Garden

$$★ 4.6 (125K)

🏛️Covent Garden

Landmark

Covent Garden's restored Victorian market hall is one of the great free shows in London: the acoustics of the Piazza amplify buskers who have to audit…

🏅 World's 50 Best: No. 44, World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024, Alba

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The Barbary

$$★ 4.6 (2K)

🍽️The Barbary

Restaurant

The Barbary is a tiny, counter-only restaurant in the heart of Covent Garden drawing its flavours from the old Barbary Coast: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisi…

north africanmiddle easternwood-firedcounter dining

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The Shard

$$$★ 4.6 (47K)

🌅The Shard

Viewpoint

Renzo Piano's 310-metre glass spire is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, and its open-air viewing gallery on levels 72 and 69 delivers a pan…

local favoritehidden gemviewpointscenic

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Photo: Ruchi and Suketu Mehta

Queen Victoria Memorial

★ 4.7 (4.1K)

🗿Queen Victoria Memorial

Monument

The Queen Victoria Memorial anchors the ceremonial axis between Buckingham Palace and the Mall with an operatic self-confidence that rewards close ins…

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Photo: Jesse Ani

The British Library

★ 4.5 (3.8K)

🏛️The British Library

Landmark

The British Library holds over 170 million items and its publicly accessible Treasures Gallery, free to enter, is one of the most quietly extraordinar…

historicliteraryculturalarchitecture

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Photo: Tim French

Mr Fogg's Botanical Tavern

$$$★ 4.5 (2K)

🍸Mr Fogg's Botanical Tavern

Bar

The gin-focused sibling in the Mr Fogg's family, the Botanical Tavern channels the Victorian craze for botanical collecting into a bar draped in prese…

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Cahoots Underground

$$$★ 4.6 (5.2K)

🍸Cahoots Underground

Bar

Set inside a genuine disused air-raid shelter and former London Underground station tunnel beneath Carnaby Street, Cahoots transports you into a metic…

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Leadenhall Market

$$★ 4.4 (23K)

🏛️Leadenhall Market

Landmark

One of London's oldest markets, Leadenhall is a Victorian masterpiece of ornate ironwork and cobblestones tucked inside the glass-and-steel canyon of…

local favoritehidden gemhistoricvictorian

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Ikoyi Restaurant

$$$$★ 4.5 (1.1K)

🍽️Ikoyi Restaurant

Restaurant

Ikoyi occupies a genuinely rare position in London: a restaurant drawing on West African flavour traditions, specifically the ingredients and spice lo…

🏅 2 Michelin Stars; The Strand; West African and Asian spices with British produce🏅 World's 50 Best: Ranked 15th on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 list; highest climber of the year, up from 42nd in 2024; blends West African and Asian spices with British produce in a blind tasting menu🏅 World's 50 Best: Ranked No. 15 globally on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 list; Winner of the Highest Climber Award 2025, rising from No. 42 in 2024🏅 World's 50 Best: Ranked No. 42 globally on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024 list

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The Lecture Room & Library at sketch

$$$$★ 4.8 (52)

🍽️The Lecture Room & Library at sketch

Restaurant

Sketch's Lecture Room and Library is one of the most theatrically beautiful dining rooms in Europe, a soaring Mayfair space dressed in rich fabrics, a…

🏅 3 Michelin Stars; Mayfair🏅 3 Michelin Stars

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Photo: The Lecture Room & Library at sketch

Fallow

$$$★ 4.7 (12K)

🍽️Fallow

Restaurant

Fallow has quietly become one of London's most exciting dining addresses, built on a philosophy of radical waste reduction that never once feels preac…

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Tate Modern

★ 4.5 (83K)

🖼️Tate Modern

Museum

Housed in the converted Bankside Power Station on the South Bank, Tate Modern is Europe's most visited modern art gallery, and the building itself set…

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Photo: María Jesús Gonzalez Nevado

Tattu London

$$$★ 4.7 (7.6K)

🍽️Tattu London

Restaurant

Tattu in the West End is a high-impact Chinese restaurant where the interiors are as considered as the food, with cascading cherry blossom installatio…

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Surrey Hills National Landscape

★ 4.7 (16K)

🌿Surrey Hills National Landscape

Nature

South of London, the Surrey Hills rise through heathland, ancient yew forest, and the greensand ridge of Leith Hill to the highest point in southeast…

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Photo: Ashim Pokharel

Hampstead Heath

★ 4.7 (20K)

🌿Hampstead Heath

Nature

Eight hundred acres of ancient woodland, meadow, and swimming ponds sitting improbably close to central London, Hampstead Heath has been the city's gr…

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Photo: Janusz Nowak

Tom Brown at The Capital

$$$$★ 4.4 (217)

🍽️Tom Brown at The Capital

Restaurant

Tom Brown, the chef who made his name at Outlaw's at The Capital before taking full ownership of the room, runs one of Knightsbridge's most quietly ac…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (new 2026); Knightsbridge, The Capital Hotel; produce-led with sustainably sourced seafood

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AGORA souvla bar

$$★ 4.6 (1.2K)

🍽️AGORA souvla bar

Restaurant

AGORA brings the open-fire spirit of a Greek souvla grill to London with an energy that feels more Thessaloniki backstreet than tourist taverna. The c…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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Photo: Jonathan Priester

Caractère

$$$★ 4.8 (412)

🍽️Caractère

Restaurant

Emily Roux and Diego Ferrari's Notting Hill restaurant is one of the most quietly accomplished dining rooms in west London, combining French classical…

🏅 1 Michelin Star, first awarded 2025

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Rochelle Canteen

$$★ 4.4 (821)

🍽️Rochelle Canteen

Restaurant

Tucked inside a converted Victorian bike shed in a former school on Arnold Circus, Rochelle Canteen is the platonic ideal of the kind of lunch you wis…

🏅 Featured in Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 8 Episode 4 (London, 2016); Bourdain ate vitello tonnato and Welsh lamb chops with lentils and green sauce at Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, Shored

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Padella Borough Market

$★ 4.7 (12K)

🍽️Padella Borough Market

Restaurant

Padella is the rare place where a queue of forty minutes outside Borough Market feels entirely worth it, and the prices inside make the wait feel almo…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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St. John

$$$★ 4.5 (3.2K)

🍽️St. John

Restaurant

St. John is the restaurant that put nose-to-tail eating on the global culinary map, and Fergus Henderson's whitewashed former smokehouse in Clerkenwel…

🏅 1 Michelin Star; Clerkenwell; Fergus Henderson's landmark nose-to-tail British restaurant🏅 Featured in Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 8 Episode 4 (London, 2016); Bourdain ate roast bone marrow with parsley and caper salad, sourdough, pickled calves tripe, and pig's head and potato 🏅 1 Michelin Star🏅 Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown S08E04, London

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AngloThai

$$$★ 4.7 (372)

🍽️AngloThai

Restaurant

Chef John Chantarasak's singular project melds the seasonal discipline of British cooking with the bold, aromatic logic of Thai cuisine, producing som…

🏅 1 Michelin Star; Marylebone; Thai flavours combined with British produce; first star at 2025 awards🏅 1 Michelin Star, first awarded 2025; tasting menu combining Thai flavours with British produce

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Mr Fogg's Society of Exploration

$$$★ 4.6 (2.5K)

🍸Mr Fogg's Society of Exploration

Bar

Themed around the fictional Victorian adventurer Phileas Fogg, this Mayfair cocktail bar is a love letter to the age of grand expeditions, crammed wit…

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Photo: Mr Fogg's Society of Exploration

Tower of London

★ 4.7 (121K)

🏛️Tower of London

Landmark

Nearly a thousand years of English history are compressed into this medieval fortress on the north bank of the Thames, and the accumulated weight of i…

local favoritehidden gemhistoriclandmark

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Palace of Westminster

★ 4.7 (5.7K)

🏛️Palace of Westminster

Landmark

The mother of parliaments sits on the north bank of the Thames in a Gothic Revival masterpiece that manages to look as though it grew out of the river…

local favoritehidden gemhistoricarchitecture

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Photo: Minh-Chau Le

Natural History Museum

★ 4.6 (37K)

🖼️Natural History Museum

Museum

Even before you see a single exhibit, Alfred Waterhouse's cathedral-like terracotta facade on Cromwell Road stops you in the street, its twin towers a…

museumsciencefamily friendlyfree

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Photo: Anamaria Ghitoiu

Science Museum

★ 4.6 (76K)

🖼️Science Museum

Museum

On Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the Science Museum makes the history of human ingenuity feel thrillingly physical: Stephenson's Rocket, Crick…

sciencetechnologyfamily friendlyfree entry

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London Transport Museum

$★ 4.4 (13K)

🖼️London Transport Museum

Museum

Housed in the Victorian flower market hall of Covent Garden's piazza, the London Transport Museum is one of the finest design museums in the world dre…

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Parliament Hill Viewpoint

★ 4.7 (5K)

🌅Parliament Hill Viewpoint

Viewpoint

The summit of Parliament Hill is one of the few places in London where you can stand on open grass with the full city skyline spread before you, unobs…

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Chilterns National Landscape

★ 4.6 (10K)

🌿Chilterns National Landscape

Nature

An hour from central London by train yet categorically another world, the Chilterns unfurl as chalk escarpments, ancient beech hangers, and a patchwor…

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The Admiralty, Trafalgar Square

$$$★ 4.4 (4.9K)

🍽️The Admiralty, Trafalgar Square

Restaurant

Positioned inside the grand Somerset House complex adjacent to Trafalgar Square, The Admiralty serves confident modern British cooking in a setting th…

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Chinatown

$$★ 4.5 (35K)

🏛️Chinatown

Landmark

London's Chinatown clusters around Gerrard Street in Soho, a dense two-block corridor of Cantonese roast-meat restaurants, bubble tea shops, and Sichu…

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Restaurant St. Barts

$$$★ 4.8 (485)

🍽️Restaurant St. Barts

Restaurant

Set in the shadow of St Bartholomew's Hospital in Smithfield, this restaurant leans into its location with an atmosphere that feels both serious and w…

🏅 1 Michelin Star; City of London

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Lita Marylebone

$$$★ 4.3 (559)

🍽️Lita Marylebone

Restaurant

Lita brings a sun-warmed southern European mood to Marylebone, with a menu that leans into wood-fire cooking, quality charcuterie, and the kind of veg…

🏅 1 Michelin Star, first awarded 2025

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A. Wong

$$$★ 4.3 (1.3K)

🍽️A. Wong

Restaurant

Andrew Wong's Pimlico restaurant is the most intellectually rigorous Chinese cooking in Britain, a place where dim sum becomes a journey through the S…

🏅 2 Michelin Stars; Victoria/Pimlico; first two-starred Chinese restaurant outside Asia when second star awarded 2021🏅 3 Michelin Stars; first Chinese restaurant outside Asia to hold 3 stars

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Kolae

$$★ 4.6 (1.2K)

🍽️Kolae

Restaurant

From the team behind Som Saa, Kolae focuses on the grilled and coconut-marinated cooking of southern Thailand, a regional tradition that remains far l…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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manteca

$$★ 4.4 (3.4K)

🍽️manteca

Restaurant

Manteca is the kind of Italian-influenced nose-to-tail restaurant that makes you reconsider everything you thought you knew about pasta in London. Che…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand🏅 Rick Stein's Long Weekends S1E8, Cadiz. Rick tried white anchovies here.

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Camley Street Natural Park, London Wildlife Trust

★ 4.6 (635)

🌿Camley Street Natural Park, London Wildlife Trust

Nature

Two acres of woodland, meadow, and pond tucked against the Regent's Canal in King's Cross make Camley Street one of London's most improbable green poc…

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OMA

$$$★ 4.7 (2.4K)

🍽️OMA

Restaurant

OMA sits on the South Bank with a terrace that frames the Thames and St Paul's as elegantly as any restaurant in the city, and the food, rooted in Gre…

🏅 1 Michelin Star; Borough Market; first Greek restaurant to receive a Michelin star in the UK; opened April 2024, starred 2025🏅 1 Michelin Star, first awarded 2025; first Greek restaurant to receive a Michelin star in the UK🏅 Rick Stein's Long Weekends S1E6, Lisbon. Rick had grilled sardines here.

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Artusi

$$★ 4.7 (1K)

🍽️Artusi

Restaurant

Named after the father of Italian cuisine, Pellegrino Artusi, this Peckham stalwart quietly became one of south London's most trusted neighbourhood re…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand🏅 Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy S1E3, Bologna (Emilia-Romagna), Forlimpopoli

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HIDE

$$$$★ 4.5 (4.6K)

🍽️HIDE

Restaurant

Ollie Dabbous's flagship opposite Green Park occupies three floors connected by a sculptural spiral staircase carved from a single oak tree, and the v…

🏅 1 Michelin Star; Mayfair

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Michael Caines at The Stafford

$$$$★ 4.6 (31)

🍽️Michael Caines at The Stafford

Restaurant

Devon-born chef Michael Caines brings his refined, classically grounded cooking to the elegant surroundings of The Stafford hotel in St James's, one o…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (new 2026); St James's, The Stafford hotel

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Ekstedt at The Yard

$$$$★ 4.8 (754)

🍽️Ekstedt at The Yard

Restaurant

Swedish chef Niklas Ekstedt brings his signature open-fire cooking to Great Scotland Yard Hotel, where every dish on the menu is prepared using ancien…

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The Wallace Collection

★ 4.8 (11K)

🖼️The Wallace Collection

Museum

Tucked away in a Georgian townhouse on Manchester Square, the Wallace Collection is where you come when you want to feel what it was like to live insi…

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Flat Iron Covent Garden

$$★ 4.6 (11K)

🍽️Flat Iron Covent Garden

Restaurant

Flat Iron has built its reputation on doing one thing with absolute conviction: the flat iron steak, a cut that was largely overlooked before this gro…

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London Bridge

★ 4.6 (66K)

🏛️London Bridge

Landmark

The current London Bridge is a plain, functional 1970s concrete crossing that consistently disappoints visitors who have confused it with Tower Bridge…

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Little Ben Clock

★ 4.6 (536)

🏛️Little Ben Clock

Landmark

Standing just five metres tall outside Victoria Station, Little Ben is a cast-iron miniature clock tower that Londoners have been using as a meeting p…

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Tate Britain

$★ 4.7 (23K)

🖼️Tate Britain

Museum

Tate Britain on Millbank holds the world's greatest collection of British art, from Tudor portraiture through Blake, Constable, and Turner to Lucian F…

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Kenwood Viewpoint

★ 4.8 (81)

🌅Kenwood Viewpoint

Viewpoint

From the south-facing terrace in front of the Robert Adam-remodelled Kenwood House, the eye drops down a carefully composed slope of English parkland…

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St James's Café

$$★ 4.0 (3.9K)

☕St James's Café

Cafe

Perched at the edge of the lake in St James's Park with a direct sightline to Buckingham Palace, this café earns its place purely through its setting:…

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Drury Covent Garden | Cafe & Brunch

$$★ 4.8 (3.9K)

☕Drury Covent Garden | Cafe & Brunch

Cafe

A bright, welcoming all-day cafe on Drury Lane that has carved out a loyal following with generous brunch plates, excellent coffee, and a warmth that…

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Seven Dials

$$★ 4.5 (23K)

🏛️Seven Dials

Landmark

Seven Dials is the point where seven narrow streets radiate from a single sundial column in the heart of Covent Garden, forming one of central London'…

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Moco Museum London

$$★ 4.6 (3.1K)

🖼️Moco Museum London

Museum

The London outpost of the Amsterdam-born Modern Contemporary museum occupies a handsome space in the West End and pitches itself at the intersection o…

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The Alchemist St Martin's Lane

$$★ 4.4 (2.8K)

🍸The Alchemist St Martin's Lane

Bar

The Alchemist on St Martin's Lane is the cocktail bar as theatre, where bartenders dispense drinks involving dry ice, edible garnishes and unexpected…

🏅 World's 50 Best: No. 8, World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024, Copenhagen

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Bonheur by Matt Abé

$$$$★ 4.5 (48)

🍽️Bonheur by Matt Abé

Restaurant

Matt Abé, the American-born chef who spent years as Gordon Ramsay's right hand at Royal Hospital Road, brings a refined French-Japanese sensibility to…

🏅 2 Michelin Stars (new 2026); Mayfair; opened November 2025 on site of former Le Gavroche; classical French technique🏅 2 Michelin Stars, newly awarded 2026; opened November 2025 on former Le Gavroche site

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Cornus

$$$★ 4.7 (127)

🍽️Cornus

Restaurant

Cornus occupies a light-filled corner in Westminster's Eccleston Yards development and turns out precise, ingredient-led modern European cooking in a…

🏅 1 Michelin Star, first awarded 2025

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Akara Restaurant

$$★ 4.6 (946)

🍽️Akara Restaurant

Restaurant

Akara draws on West African culinary traditions with a menu that is rooted in Nigerian cooking but reaches across the region for technique and flavour…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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Trullo

$$★ 4.5 (1.8K)

🍽️Trullo

Restaurant

Trullo in Highbury has been quietly setting the standard for neighbourhood Italian in London since it opened in 2010, and a decade-plus of consistency…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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Labombe by Trivet

$$$★ 4.9 (69)

🍽️Labombe by Trivet

Restaurant

From the team behind the acclaimed Trivet in London Bridge, Labombe is a more playful and convivial expression of the same technical seriousness, with…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (new 2026); Mayfair

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Buckingham Palace

★ 4.5 (194K)

🏛️Buckingham Palace

Landmark

The official London residence of the British monarch since 1837, Buckingham Palace anchors the western end of The Mall with a composed grandeur that r…

🏅 James Beard: Winner, Best Chef: Mountain (CO, ID, MT, UT, WY) 2023, Boise, ID

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Plates Restaurant & Food Studio

$$$★ 4.8 (520)

🍽️Plates Restaurant & Food Studio

Restaurant

A plant-based restaurant in London Bridge that takes vegetables with the same seriousness a classical kitchen takes meat, producing refined, multi-cou…

🏅 1 Michelin Star, first awarded 2025; first ever vegan restaurant in the UK to win a Michelin star

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Blacklock City

$$★ 4.7 (3.6K)

🍽️Blacklock City

Restaurant

Blacklock City, tucked beneath the streets of the Square Mile, is the kind of place City workers guard like a local secret on weekdays and carnivores…

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Wellington Arch

$★ 4.5 (4.6K)

🗿Wellington Arch

Monument

Stranded on a traffic island at the south-eastern corner of Hyde Park, Wellington Arch is easy to circle in a taxi without ever stopping, which makes…

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Royal Air Force Museum London

★ 4.8 (20K)

🖼️Royal Air Force Museum London

Museum

Set on the former airfield at Hendon in north London, the RAF Museum is the kind of place that stops you mid-sentence: you walk into a hangar and a Sp…

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London Museum Docklands

★ 4.6 (8.2K)

🖼️London Museum Docklands

Museum

Set inside a converted early 19th-century warehouse on the West India Quay, the Museum of London Docklands tells the full, unvarnished story of the Th…

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Woodberry Wetlands, London Wildlife Trust

★ 4.6 (1.7K)

🌿Woodberry Wetlands, London Wildlife Trust

Nature

Built on and around a pair of Victorian reservoirs in Stoke Newington, Woodberry Wetlands is an improbable flourishing: reed beds, wildflower margins,…

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The London Dungeon

$$★ 4.3 (20K)

🏛️The London Dungeon

Landmark

A theatrical walk-through attraction beneath the South Bank that plunges visitors into London's most gruesome chapters: the Black Death, Jack the Ripp…

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Boxhill Viewpoint

★ 4.8 (1.3K)

🌅Boxhill Viewpoint

Viewpoint

Technically in the Surrey Hills rather than London proper, Box Hill is the capital's most accessible upland escape, a chalk ridge blanketed in ancient…

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Gunnersbury Triangle, London Wildlife Trust

★ 4.6 (219)

🌿Gunnersbury Triangle, London Wildlife Trust

Nature

A triangular wedge of ancient birch woodland marooned between three sets of railway lines in Chiswick, Gunnersbury Triangle is the kind of wild, unrul…

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Camden Lock Market

$★ 4.6 (5K)

🏛️Camden Lock Market

Landmark

Camden Lock is where the Regent's Canal and London's alternative subcultures converge, a sprawling labyrinth of market halls, outdoor stalls, and stre…

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Donia

$$★ 4.6 (624)

🍽️Donia

Restaurant

Donia brings North African and Levantine flavours together in a setting that feels warm and considered, with charred flatbreads and slow-cooked lamb a…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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Mignonette Bistro

$$★ 4.8 (228)

🍽️Mignonette Bistro

Restaurant

A neighbourhood French bistro that earns its stripes by getting the fundamentals exactly right: proper steak frites, a well-edited wine list heavy on…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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The Princess Victoria

$$★ 4.4 (1.2K)

🍸The Princess Victoria

Bar

One of West London's grandest Victorian gin palaces, The Princess Victoria on Uxbridge Road in Shepherd's Bush is an extraordinary pub interior: soari…

🏅 Featured in Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 8 Episode 4 (London, 2016); Bourdain ate Scotch egg, whitebait, fries, and Guinness with Nigella Lawson; located at 217 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bu

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Old Shades

$★ 4.7 (6.2K)

🍸Old Shades

Bar

One of Whitehall's oldest surviving pubs, the Old Shades sits just a stone's throw from the Cenotaph and has been pulling pints for civil servants, jo…

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Gunpowder

$$★ 4.4 (1.2K)

🍽️Gunpowder

Restaurant

Gunpowder on Spitalfields' Whites Row brings the kind of Indian home cooking that rarely makes it onto restaurant menus: the dishes here draw on famil…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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The Ritz Restaurant

$$$$★ 4.7 (1.4K)

🍽️The Ritz Restaurant

Restaurant

The dining room at The Ritz is one of the great theatrical spaces in European hospitality, a Louis XVI fantasy of gilded columns, painted ceilings, an…

🏅 2 Michelin Stars; St James's; held one star since 2016, second star added 2025🏅 2 Michelin Stars; held 1 star since 2016, elevated to 2 stars in 2025🏅 Rick Stein's Long Weekends S1E4, Vienna. Rick enjoyed Wiener Gemischter Satz wine here.

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Polo Bar - 24 Hour Great British Cafe

$★ 4.4 (5.7K)

☕Polo Bar - 24 Hour Great British Cafe

Cafe

One of the last genuine 24-hour cafes in central London, Polo Bar on Bishopsgate has been feeding the city around the clock for decades, making it a s…

🏅 Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy S2E3, Umbria, Orvieto

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London Eye

★ 4.5 (203K)

🌅London Eye

Viewpoint

At 135 metres, the London Eye remains the tallest cantilevered observation wheel in Europe, and a full rotation in one of its 32 glass capsules takes…

🏅 World's 50 Best: No. 39, World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024, Cusco

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Brooklands by Claude Bosi

$$$$★ 4.4 (88)

🍽️Brooklands by Claude Bosi

Restaurant

Claude Bosi, one of the most technically accomplished French chefs working in Britain, brings his Lyon-inflected cooking to this glamorous dining room…

🏅 2 Michelin Stars; Belgravia, at The Peninsula hotel; awarded two stars on debut despite opening late 2023

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Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High

$$$★ 4.6 (95)

🍽️Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High

Restaurant

A Gordon Ramsay Group venture that takes the elevated afternoon tea or high-dining concept and applies the group's characteristic precision and qualit…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (new 2026); 60th floor of 22 Bishopsgate, City of London; 12-seater chef's table; classic French technique with Scandinavian twist; chef James Goodyear🏅 1 Michelin Star, first awarded 2026; 12-seater chef's table at 22 Bishopsgate, classic French with Scandinavian twist

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Stave Hill Viewpoint

★ 4.9 (37)

🌅Stave Hill Viewpoint

Viewpoint

Built from the rubble of the former Surrey Commercial Docks and rising above the flat landscape of Rotherhithe, Stave Hill rewards the short climb wit…

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Bouchon Racine

$$$★ 4.8 (1K)

🍽️Bouchon Racine

Restaurant

Bouchon Racine is the most convincingly Lyonnaise restaurant in London, the project of chef Henry Harris, and it operates with the focused, generous s…

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Happy London

$$★ 4.4 (9.9K)

🍽️Happy London

Restaurant

Happy London is a neighbourhood Chinese restaurant with a devoted local following, offering a menu that ventures beyond the standard takeaway repertoi…

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Lambeth Palace

$★ 4.5 (819)

🏛️Lambeth Palace

Landmark

The official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury for over 800 years, Lambeth Palace sits quietly on the South Bank directly across the ri…

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De Vine

$$★ 5.0 (6.1K)

🍸De Vine

Bar

A compact, candlelit wine bar in the heart of the city that punches well above its size with a list that champions small producers, natural wines, and…

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Sherlock Holmes

$$★ 4.2 (9.7K)

🍸Sherlock Holmes

Bar

Named for the world's most famous fictional detective, this Northumberland Street pub is a pilgrimage point for fans of Arthur Conan Doyle and a genui…

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Stonehenge

$$★ 4.5 (67K)

🗿Stonehenge

Monument

Stonehenge sits on the open Wiltshire plain about 90 miles from London, a ring of sarsen stones and bluestones arranged with a precision that modern e…

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Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester

$$$$★ 4.3 (643)

🍽️Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester

Restaurant

Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester is one of the most accomplished French fine-dining rooms in the world outside Paris, a place where the cooking is the…

🏅 3 Michelin Stars; Mayfair🏅 3 Michelin Stars

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Tattershall Castle

$$★ 4.3 (5.8K)

🍸Tattershall Castle

Bar

A converted 1930s paddle steamer permanently moored on the Embankment between Hungerford Bridge and Westminster Bridge, the Tattershall Castle is one…

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Marble Arch

★ 4.4 (23K)

🗿Marble Arch

Monument

A triumphal arch in white Carrara marble stranded on a traffic island at the northeast corner of Hyde Park, Marble Arch is one of London's great displ…

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Rules

$$$★ 4.6 (3.7K)

🍽️Rules

Restaurant

Established in 1798, Rules is London's oldest restaurant and arguably its most atmospheric, a warren of red banquette rooms hung with oil paintings, b…

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National Maritime Museum

★ 4.6 (15K)

🖼️National Maritime Museum

Museum

In Greenwich, beside the Painted Hall and beneath the line of the Prime Meridian, the National Maritime Museum tells the story of Britain and the sea…

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Parkland Walk

★ 4.6 (2K)

🌿Parkland Walk

Nature

London's longest local nature reserve follows a disused Victorian railway line for nearly four miles through the leafy boroughs of Haringey and Isling…

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Cutty Sark

$$★ 4.6 (23K)

🏛️Cutty Sark

Landmark

The Cutty Sark is the last surviving tea clipper in the world, and standing beneath its copper-sheeted hull in the dry berth at Greenwich, the enginee…

historicmaritimefamily friendlyscenic

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Kruk

$$★ 4.6 (206)

🍸Kruk

Bar

Kruk is a Polish-inflected bar and small plates spot that makes a strong case for central European drinking culture in London, with an edited selectio…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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Miga

$$★ 4.6 (619)

🍽️Miga

Restaurant

Miga is one of London's most compelling Korean restaurants, bringing the flavours of a modern Seoul dining room to a compact, energetic space where th…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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Legado Restaurant

$$★ 4.5 (400)

🍽️Legado Restaurant

Restaurant

Legado brings the warmth and depth of Latin American cooking to London with a menu that honours the culinary heritage of the continent, leaning on bol…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (new 2026); Shoreditch; Spanish restaurant by Nieves Barragán Mohacho and JKS Restaurants; opened August 2025🏅 1 Michelin Star, first awarded 2026; Spanish restaurant by Nieves Barragán Mohacho and JKS Restaurants, opened August 2025

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Mountain Beak Street

$$★ 4.4 (1.4K)

🍽️Mountain Beak Street

Restaurant

Mountain on Beak Street in Soho is a lively, plant-forward restaurant with a cooking style rooted in the mountains and valleys of the Mediterranean an…

🏅 World's 50 Best: Ranked 74th on the World's 50 Best extended 51-100 list 2025; Soho; moved up from 94th in 2024🏅 World's 50 Best: Ranked No. 74 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 51-100 list 2025; up from No. 94 debut in 2024🏅 World's 50 Best: Ranked No. 94 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 51-100 list 2024; debut entry

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Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

$$$$★ 4.6 (2.5K)

🍽️Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

Restaurant

Dinner is the more approachable face of Heston Blumenthal's genius: a handsome dining room overlooking Hyde Park where every dish on the menu is roote…

🏅 2 Michelin Stars; Knightsbridge; menu researched alongside the British Library, each dish meticulously crafted for the modern palate

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York Watergate

★ 4.6 (59)

🗿York Watergate

Monument

Tucked behind the Victoria Embankment Gardens and largely ignored by the tourists hurrying to the Embankment tube, York Watergate is a piece of 17th-c…

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Sydenham Hill Wood

★ 4.6 (445)

🌿Sydenham Hill Wood

Nature

One of the largest remaining fragments of the Great North Wood that once blanketed south London, Sydenham Hill Wood is an ancient oak and hornbeam woo…

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Bywater Street

★ 4.4 (36)

💎Bywater Street

Hidden gem

Bywater Street is a short residential cul-de-sac off the King's Road in Chelsea, lined with pastel-painted Georgian terraced houses in a sequence of m…

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London Wall

★ 4.5 (863)

🗿London Wall

Monument

Fragments of London's Roman and medieval defensive wall survive across the City and beyond, and tracking them down on foot is one of the most rewardin…

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Cleopatra's Needle

★ 4.6 (887)

🗿Cleopatra's Needle

Monument

One of a pair of ancient Egyptian obelisks that stand on the Victoria Embankment, this 21-metre pink granite monolith is around 3,500 years old and pr…

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Imperial War Museum

★ 4.7 (31K)

🖼️Imperial War Museum

Museum

The Imperial War Museum in Lambeth is one of the most serious and well-crafted history museums anywhere in the world, covering every conflict involvin…

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Twist Museum

$$★ 4.6 (5.1K)

🖼️Twist Museum

Museum

Twist Museum on Oxford Street is London's dedicated optical illusion and immersive-art attraction, built almost entirely around the photograph: every…

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Wood Farm Viewpoint

★ 4.8 (174)

🌅Wood Farm Viewpoint

Viewpoint

A quieter, less-trafficked perch on the fringes of Hampstead Heath that rewards those willing to walk a little further from the main Parliament Hill c…

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The Nest

$★ 4.0 (886)

🍸The Nest

Bar

A compact, no-frills basement club in Dalston that has long been a reliable anchor of east London's underground dance music scene, The Nest punches we…

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Victoria House Coffee & Food

$★ 4.8 (7.9K)

☕Victoria House Coffee & Food

Cafe

A calm, well-run daytime cafe that takes both its coffee and its food seriously, Victoria House is the kind of neighbourhood-minded spot that earns re…

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Blacklock Covent Garden

$$★ 4.6 (2.7K)

🍽️Blacklock Covent Garden

Restaurant

Blacklock has made its name doing one thing with absolute conviction: chops and pre-batched cocktails in a basement setting that feels like a stylish…

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Osteria romana

$$★ 4.8 (6.4K)

🍽️Osteria romana

Restaurant

Osteria Romana is a small, unshowy trattoria that channels the working-class cooking of Rome with more fidelity than almost anywhere else in London, l…

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The Kerfield Arms

$$★ 4.7 (239)

🍸The Kerfield Arms

Bar

A proper neighbourhood local in East Dulwich that does the traditional London pub formula better than most: well-kept ales, a genuinely warm room, and…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (new 2026); Camberwell; only the second gastropub in London to receive a Michelin star🏅 1 Michelin Star, first awarded 2026; modern gastropub opened April 2025 by the team behind The Baring

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Leicester Square

★ 4.5 (25K)

🏛️Leicester Square

Landmark

Leicester Square is London's entertainment quarter in concentrated form: a pedestrianised plaza ringed by major cinemas, theatres, and restaurants tha…

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Pepper & Spice Restaurant London

$★ 4.3 (912)

🍽️Pepper & Spice Restaurant London

Restaurant

Pepper and Spice is a neighbourhood Thai restaurant that has built a loyal local following through consistent, honest cooking rooted in central Thai h…

🏅 Featured in Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 8 Episode 4 (London, 2016); Jamaican counter-serve at 40 Balls Pond Road, Dalston/Islington

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Brutto

$$★ 4.4 (1K)

🍽️Brutto

Restaurant

Brutto is Russell Norman's love letter to the Florentine trattoria, a room that gets the whole atmosphere right: red-and-white checked cloths, Campari…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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Row on 5

$$$★ 4.9 (199)

🍽️Row on 5

Restaurant

Row on 5 sits inside the Mayfair institution of Savile Row tailoring territory, a refined all-day restaurant that earns its address without trading on…

🏅 2 Michelin Stars (new 2026, promoted from 1 star); Savile Row, Mayfair🏅 2 Michelin Stars, promoted from 1 star in 2025 to 2 stars in 2026

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Ambassadors Clubhouse

$$$★ 4.6 (1.9K)

🍽️Ambassadors Clubhouse

Restaurant

Mark Sergeant's relaxed Covent Garden restaurant strikes a deliberately convivial note, a place built for long lunches and easy dinners rather than hu…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (new 2026); Mayfair; Indian restaurant

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Mambow

$$★ 4.4 (407)

🍽️Mambow

Restaurant

Mambow is a small, deeply personal Malaysian restaurant in Haggerston where chef-owner Abby Lee cooks the food of her childhood with the rigour and co…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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🍽️64 Goodge Street, Greater

Restaurant

64 Goodge Street is a quietly serious neighbourhood restaurant in Fitzrovia that rewards those who find it, offering a concise, confident menu built a…

🏅 1 Michelin Star, first awarded 2025

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