152 Best European Restaurants in London 2026

May Fair Kitchen

$$$$ 70 Stratton St, W1J 8LT, Mayfair, London

International European Fine dining Elegant & Chic

Welcome to The Kitchens, a collection of award-winning restaurants featuring two distinctive cuisines in beautiful, modern and relaxed surroundings. Exquisite small plates are served from a carefully chosen combination of cuisines, including contemporary Spanish, Italian, Peruvian, Mexican, Japanese and Mediterranean. The restaurant is located in the heart of Mayfair, in central London.

Scott's

$$$$ 20 Mount St, W1K 2HE, Mayfair, London

English European Fine dining

Scott’s is located on Mount Street, Mayfair. The restaurant is open from midday and offers terrace dining and cocktails in Mayfair. The menu reflects its glittering heritage, serving the finest traditional fish and shellfish dishes alongside a variety of meat and seasonal game favourites in an atmosphere of urbane sophistication. Oysters, performed at the elegant oyster and Champagne bar, are a house speciality.

Apricity Restaurant

$$$$ 68 Duke St, W1K 6JU, Mayfair, London

International European Premium Casual

The warmth of the sun in winter. Symbolizing regeneration, rejuvenation, generosity and light, Apricity, the latest restaurant from award-winning chef-owner Chantelle Nicholson and her team, is a sustainable restaurant in Mayfair with one goal: to create a sustainable community. The objective is not just to achieve acceptable levels of sustainability commitment but to work hard to find the best methods and share these learnings.

The Grill At The Dorchester

$$$$ 53 Park Ln, W1K 1QA, Mayfair, London

English European Fine dining Elegant & Chic

The refurbished London restaurant in the heart of Dorchester features youthful talent Tom Booton's take on a contemporary British grill with a vibrant atmosphere to match. Try the food intake of our tasty desserts and enjoy Tom's latest outcomes. The Grill's take on a modern British grill with signature dishes, including home-baked hearty bread and lobster thermidor tart, as well as the fresh energy of our green chefs, makes for a warm and approachable dining adventure.

Rules

$$$$ 34-35 Maiden Ln, WC2E 7LB, Covent Garden, London

European Elegant & Chic

Rules serve the traditional food of this country at its best – and at affordable prices. It specialises in classic game cookery, oysters, pies and puddings. Rules is fortunate in owning an estate in the High Pennines, “England’s last wilderness”, which supplies training in game management for the staff, exercising its own quality controls and determining how the game is treated.

Langan's Brasserie

$$$$ Stratton St, W1J 8LB, Mayfair, London

English European Fine dining Elegant & Chic

Langan’s is an iconic Mayfair institution with an exceptional reputation for sophisticated cuisine, starry service and lavish parties. Step into a glittering world of British refinement respecting French tradition, open for early breakfasts, late night soirées and everything in between. Langan’s reputation for its parties, events and private dining has been unparalleled for decades. Through our bespoke events and private rooms, Langan’s offers signature continental elegance and fanciful British flair to those wishing to be more tailored and discreet.

Frog By Adam Handling Restaurant Covent Garden

$$$$ 34-35 Southampton St, WC2E 7HG, Covent Garden, London

English European Fine dining Elegant & Chic

Michelin-starred Frog by Adam Handling is a place to immerse yourself in a theatrical show. You’re facing the kitchen, the chefs come to your table, and you can interact with every team member. Frog is luxury in an atmosphere where you feel comfortable being whoever you are and where all elements in the restaurant are bound to offer a truly unforgettable experience. The dishes are very inspirational, and they all mean something to Adam. Each one of the dishes has a story behind it, whether it’s a memory from Adam’s childhood or something that has inspired him or the team.

Cora Pearl Covent Garden

$$$$ 30 Henrietta St, WC2E 8NA, Covent Garden, London

English European Casual Dining Family Style

Cora Pearl is the team's second restaurant behind the award-winning Kitty Fisher's in Mayfair. Named after the notorious 19th-century courtesan who resided nearby, Cora Pearl serves upscale British food, cocktails and wines for all occasions in a historic Covent Garden townhouse. A location in the full British style, which welcomes its customers with a round of wine and some appetizers, ready to immerse themselves in a sea of delicacies with English and European flavours.

Bancone Covent Garden

$$$$ 39 William IV St, WC2N 4DD, Covent Garden, London

Italian European Mediterranean Fine dining

Bancone was established in 2018 at its flagship Covent Garden, followed in 2019 with its second incarnation in Golden Square, Soho. Here is only handmade pasta inspired by Italy, London and much of Europe. The restaurant is lively and informal. The wine list complements our menu in terms of variety and quality, promoting lesser-known vineyards and growers alongside some big hits, while cocktails centre around vermouth, bitters and Campari.

Pivot Bar & Bistro

$$$$ 3 Henrietta St, WC2E 8LU, Covent Garden, London

European Fine dining Elegant & Chic

Overlooking Covent Garden’s famous Piazza Pivot British Bar Bistro span two floors of the historic English townhouse at 3 Henrietta Street. Pivot serves healthy, well-cooked gourmet classics with an all-day menu carefully curated by award-winning Chef Mark Greenaway. Chef Mark Greenaway, voted #160 among the top 300 chefs worldwide, is recognised for his chasm of flavours and the care he treats ingredients. Not to forget, a section dedicated to celebrating the best seasonal vegetables. Order a dish as a side or a delicious main course.

Sarastro

$$$$ 126 Drury Ln, WC2B 5SU, Covent Garden, London

European Mediterranean Turkish Premium Casual

Sarastro Restaurant, named after a character in Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’, opened its doors in August 1996. It continues to offer a heady mix of fun, Mediterranean food with a Turkish twist and music. Referred to by many as ‘The Show After The Show’, Sarastro hosts its unique musical events on various days of the week. Enter a world of drama, passion, and excitement where vibrant colour, glittering displays, and joyous music meet exotic cuisine to create a truly unforgettable dining experience.

The Delaunay

$$$$ 55 Aldwych, WC2B 4BB, Covent Garden, London

European Austrian Elegant & Chic

Inspired by the grand cafes of Mittel Europe, The Delaunay is an all-day café near Covent Garden, serving daily food from breakfast to lunch and dinner. In full British style, the restaurant offers typical European and international cuisine, satisfying all tastes and even the most demanding palates. An enchanting, elegant place where you can enjoy excellent food and excellent wines in the company of your sweetheart or family.

108 Brasserie

$$$$ 108 Marylebone Ln, W1U 2QE, Marylebone, London

English European Elegant & Chic

The chic, self-contained entrance to 108 Brasserie, set to the rear of the hotel on the cobbled Marylebone Lane, and characterized by its striking awnings and brick-coloured facade, set the scene for a continental-style restaurant. The menu is classic but refined for breakfast and lunch, or dinner. An intriguing but elegant location, perfect for any occasion.

Fischer's

$$$$ 50 Marylebone High St, W1U 5HN, Marylebone, London

European Austrian Premium Casual

A casual neighbourhood restaurant and café with a classic Viennese menu from The Wolseley Hospitality Group. Warmly evocative of Vienna in the early years of the twentieth century, Fischer's is open for breakfast until late into the evening. A place to stay on your own over a paper, cake and coffee; to relax with friends over lunch or dinner; to meet over breakfast or for an early evening aperitif. The classic Viennese café menu runs from breakfast to morning coffee to lunch, mid-afternoon snacks and a full dinner service. The menu has an extensive choice of cured fish, salads, schnitzels, sausages, brötchen and sandwiches, strudels, biscuits, ice-cream coupes, hot chocolates and coffees with traditional tortes mit Schlag.

Donostia Restaurant

$$$$ 10 Seymour Pl, W1H 7ND, Marylebone, London

Spanish European Mediterranean Casual Dining Family Style

Donostia takes its name from the city of San Sebastian in northwestern Spain. We serve Basque-inspired tapas and pintxo dishes prepared by a highly professional team of chefs, using ingredients guided by seasonality and quality. Donostia seats 40, with a bar where guests can watch the chefs at work in the open kitchen. There is also a private dining room.

OPSO

$$$$ 10 Paddington St, W1U 5QL, Marylebone, London

Greek European Mediterranean Casual Dining

OPSO [gr. OΨΟ] is an ancient Greek word for a delicious morsel of food, a delicacy! OPSO restaurant opened in the heart of Marylebone in 2014, introducing a new approach to modern Greek food to the London food scene. Inspired by Greek culinary heritage, OPSO combines our contemporary culinary perspective with famous Greek hospitality. Based on high-quality seasonal ingredients, most of which are sourced directly from Greece, the chefs create dishes that elevate modern Greek cuisine to new sensory heights.

Ponti's Italian Kitchen

$$$ Oxford Circus, 5-7 John Prince's St, W1G 0JN, Marylebone, London

Italian European Casual Dining Family Style Pizzeria

Ponti's Kitchen is the most traditional representation of Italian cuisine. In the heart of London, in Oxford Circus, Ponti's is the flagship of Italian cuisine. A mastery handed down over the years brings the colours, scents and Mediterranean flavours that Italy can offer to the customers' tables. Pizza is one of the strongest dishes, so much so that it has even created a pizza academy. Homemade pasta, fish and land first courses, and sea second courses, with daily catch from Italy, are just some of the delicacies you can find at Ponti's.

Kitchen At Holmes

$$$$ 108 Baker St, W1U 6LJ, Marylebone, London

International European Elegant & Chic

Located on Baker Street in the heart of Marylebone Village, Kitchen at Holmes is an all-day restaurant, neighbourhood café and destination for foodies. The restaurant offers a special seasonal menu Thursday through Saturday evenings, perfect for celebrations, family celebrations and date nights. For those who want to sit outside, there is the Chandon Garden Spritz Terrace, ideally located near the Baker Street bar. This is the perfect place to enjoy a family lunch, a business meeting, or, why not, a birthday party.

Elystan Street

$$$$ 43 Elystan St, SW3 3NT, Chelsea, London

English European Premium Casual

With many years of experience in the kitchen and at the table, Elystan Street has understood the importance of one concerning the other. The aim in the kitchen, as always, is to offer incredible pleasure in the dining room - and in Elystan Street, we aim to achieve this by serving pure, seasonal, ingredient-based dishes, without gimmicks, full of vitality and taste. Contemporary, English and international cuisine frame an elegant and refined location, perfect for a romantic dinner or a business meeting.

La Mia Mamma King's Road

$$$$ 257 King's Rd, SW3 5EL, Chelsea, London

Italian European Casual Dining Family Style

The concept of "La Mia Mamma" is unique. A group of mothers creates and designs dishes to serve at the table in a kitchen where you can breathe exclusively Italian from every corner. A project born on Facebook in 2018 has become reality. From "La Mia Mamma", the Italian cuisine is the master, together with its women behind the stoves, who, with love, dedication and years of experience, prepare typical traditional dishes, including homemade pasta, pizza, desserts, and much more. Italy was brought to the table by mothers.

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