Puddings put Willy Wonka to shame with everything from a banana split to a classic crème brûlée on offer. It’s easy to get wrapped up in the shiny new things, and that makes it all the more exciting that our number one restaurant in London for 2024 is anything but. Executive chef Ben Orpwood leads the kitchen team, turning out seasonal dishes centred around ‘the pantry’, meat, game, seafood and vegetables.

London’s embarrassment of restaurant riches is evident across the entirety of the list - these 100 restaurants are the city’s elite. I just cannot tell what makes one plate with a lobster on it ugly and another plate with a lobster on it chic. They’ve assembled something of a crack team, with Ashley Palmer-Watts of Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston fame in the kitchen, front-of-house staff from St John’s and head butcher George Donnelly.

One of London’s truly influential great restaurants is still as good as ever, feeding the masses with humble British cooking, comforting pies and warm madeleines straight from the oven. A new year might be upon us, but we're still dreaming of some of the best restaurants that opened in 2023 – and, if you're anything like us, you haven't had a chance to eat at all of the wonderful new spots from the last few months of the year yet. The final string to Bambi's bow – sit back and enjoy some post-dinner tunes spun by resident DJs with vinyl plucked from the custom-made wall of records forming the back of the restaurant. The Water House Project developed from a popular supperclub to a thriving restaurant, where its tasting menus only and drink pairings are included in the veyr reasonable cost.

They’ve almost finished: all that has to be done is to sew in wooden dowels along the top edge and attach strings so they can be hung. Vivek Singh’s shaping of London’s culinary landscape has been instrumental in elevating Indian cuisine to whole new, elegant heights.Without these technologies, things like personalised recommendations, your account preferences, or localisation may not work correctly. Meanwhile, the Sinasir, a fermented and beautifully crispy crab cake, was stuffed with white crab meat that wasn’t overdressed and retained its natural sweetness. I’ve played some part in that – actual teaching – and it feels amazing, makes up for everything else. The power duo – who between them have 35 years of experience via Sydney, Mexico, and London’s Michelin-starred Lyle’s – have joined forces to launch Broadway Market’s latest eatery. Papi burst onto the scene in 2023 as a creative spot that takes a zero waste approach to food, fermenting and reinventing leftovers to create dishes for the following day's menu.

There are many great options for a night away for a couple, depending on your preferences and location. Dramatic, sophisticated interiors pay homage to the building’s brutalist roots, as does the honest British cookery. Some popular choices include cosy bed and breakfasts, luxurious city hotels, or even a romantic cabin in the woods. Sometimes she’s out of the house before the rest of us are up, and not back until 12 hours later, exhausted. If you fancy something altogether more unique, why not try glamping, a coastal escape, or a night in a treehouse?Chef and owner Andrew Wong’s flair for creativity, storytelling and fun is the reason his restaurant is still the only Chinese restaurant in London to retain two Michelin stars. Focusing on tasting menus only, Brett Graham and Tom Spenceley continue to deliver faultless cooking at this Notting Hill icon.

uk/talks-2021) at the beginning of November to talk about how we went about this work and we’re hoping to inspire other small businesses to do the same.Easily mistaken for a fishmonger from the outside, Prawn on the Lawn delivers heavenly fresh seafood and simple, generous cooking. Shoots are notoriously expensive endeavours, what with the cost of the crew, kit and location, not to mention the famous face that is usually fronting it (and charging by the minute). The pick of the mains was the smokey, melt-in-the-mouth guinea fowl with taro root, ehuru and uziza sauce. We have a special plinth in the house that is used to arrange trinkets on, but to create a backdrop for the photo you have to go upstairs and tie a sheet to the balcony and have it flop down just right behind it, which takes more tweaking, bending and knot-tying than I’d like.