The 38 Best London Restaurants

The Eater 38 hopes to answer any question that begins, “Can you recommend a restaurant?” It’s a curated list that covers the entire city, spanning more than 20 cuisines, neighborhoods, and price points. It’s a list that tells the story of the London food scene, documenting the dim sum, Sunday roasts, curries, pizza, sinasir, rarebits, banh mi, udon noodles, pepper pot, and moo krob. All these dishes and more place London among the very best and most diverse places to eat in the world.

This guide aims to reflect the best food and most important restaurants in the capital as of fall 2024, including new venues as they make their mark and significant older establishments that work to maintain their place in their communities. It continues to showcase a mix of over three dozen restaurants, which have all done outstanding things in extraordinary times: emerging, surviving, thriving, and continuing to enrich the city and its food culture through a half-decade of unprecedented change and tumult.

Adam Coghlan is a writer and editor based in London. In 2017, he launched Eater London and ran the site until it ceased daily publication in 2023. You can find him on Instagram @adamcoghlan.

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