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CORE by Clare Smyth

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London, United Kingdom

CORE by Clare Smyth

CORE by Clare Smyth sits at the formal end of London's Modern British movement, where the old promise of local produce has been pushed from pub comfort into tasting-menu precision. Clare Smyth's Notting Hill restaurant has La Liste 2026 recognition at 98 points, National Restaurant Awards Top 100 placement, Star Wine List accreditation, and a cooking style that gives British vegetables the same status usually reserved for luxury seafood and game.

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Greater London

Restaurants

Selected entries from the current guide for Greater London.

CORE by Clare Smyth restaurant in London

London, United Kingdom

CORE by Clare Smyth

CORE by Clare Smyth sits at the formal end of London's Modern British movement, where the old promise of local produce has been pushed from pub comfort into tasting-menu precision. Clare Smyth's Notting Hill restaurant has La Liste 2026 recognition at 98 points, National Restaurant Awards Top 100 placement, Star Wine List accreditation, and a cooking style that gives British vegetables the same status usually reserved for luxury seafood and game.

London, United Kingdom
KOL restaurant in London

London, United Kingdom

KOL

KOL arrived in Marylebone in late 2020 and rapidly became one of London's most closely watched restaurant openings, earning a Michelin star and a World's 50 Best ranking of #17 by 2024. The premise is structurally unusual: a ten-course tasting menu built entirely on British-sourced ingredients, reinterpreted through 9,000 years of Mexican culinary tradition. The downstairs Mezcaleria offers one of the UK's most serious agave spirit collections as a standalone destination.

London, United Kingdom
Sketch, The Lecture Room and Library restaurant in London

London, United Kingdom

Sketch, The Lecture Room and Library

Sketch's Lecture Room and Library has held three Michelin stars since its ascent to the upper tier of London's Modern French dining, operating from an 18th-century Mayfair mansion at 9 Conduit St. Pierre Gagnaire's multi-dish signature approach — langoustine in liquorice beurre noisette accompanied by a constellation of complex side preparations — defines the format, while head chef Johannes Nuding steers execution across a room that ranks #105 on La Liste 2026.

London, United Kingdom
Frog by Adam Handling restaurant in London

London, United Kingdom

Frog by Adam Handling

Adam Handling's Covent Garden flagship operates on a ten-course tasting menu format built around seasonal British produce and a zero-waste philosophy, priced at £199 per person. The room is deliberately spare, the kitchen open, and the atmosphere closer to a charged dining room than a hushed fine-dining sanctuary. A Michelin star and a five-Radish rating from the Sustainable Restaurant Guide signal where it sits in London's competitive tasting-menu tier.

London, United Kingdom
Trinity restaurant in London

London, United Kingdom

Trinity

Open since 2006 near Clapham Common, Trinity holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining top-500 ranking for its technically precise Modern British cooking under Adam Byatt and head chef Harry Kirkpatrick. The restaurant has expanded across several formats — a ground-floor dining room, a first-floor space, a chef's-counter experience called Tableside, and an alfresco kitchen — while sustaining the neighbourhood focus that defines its identity.

London, United Kingdom

Greater London

Hotels

Selected entries from the current guide for Greater London.

The Peninsula London hotel in London

London, United Kingdom

The Peninsula London

Opened on one of London's most historically weighted corners, adjacent to Wellington Arch and Hyde Park Corner, The Peninsula London brings the group's Asian-rooted service tradition to a purpose-built property designed by Peter Marino. Its 190 rooms carry rates from around $1,071 per night, and the in-house restaurant Brooklands by Claude Bosi holds two Michelin stars. La Liste ranked it at 96.5 points in its 2026 Top Hotels edition.

London, United Kingdom
The Savoy hotel in London

London, United Kingdom

The Savoy

Opened in 1889 on the Strand, The Savoy set the template for London luxury that every grand hotel since has worked against or toward. Now managed by Fairmont, its 268 rooms split between Edwardian and Art Deco interiors, its bars carry century-deep credentials, and its position near the Thames places it at the geographic and historical centre of the city's premium hotel tier. La Liste ranked it 99.5 points in 2026; World's 50 Best Hotels placed it 47th in 2023.

London, United Kingdom
The Beaumont Mayfair hotel in London

London, United Kingdom

The Beaumont Mayfair

Set on a quiet Mayfair street overlooking Brown Hart Gardens, The Beaumont operates in the tradition of the grand independent hotel: 101 rooms and suites with Art Deco interiors refined by architect Thierry Despont, a Michelin-starred restaurant under chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen, and Antony Gormley's ROOM — an inhabitable sculpture that is, to date, the only artwork of its kind bookable as a hotel suite. La Liste ranked it 94 points in 2026.

London, United Kingdom
Rosewood London hotel in London

London, United Kingdom

Rosewood London

A five-star Edwardian landmark on High Holborn, Rosewood London sits at the geographic divide between the City and the West End, placing guests within walking distance of the British Museum, Covent Garden, and the Inns of Court. Its 306 rooms and 45 suites occupy a former insurance headquarters redesigned by Tony Chi, while the dining programme — anchored by Holborn Dining Room, the Mirror Room, and the celebrated Scarfes Bar — runs seven nights a week. Virtuoso Hotel of the Year 2014, with a La Liste score of 99 points in 2026.

London, United Kingdom
The Berkeley hotel in London

London, United Kingdom

The Berkeley

Rated 98 points by La Liste (2026) and carrying Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star status, The Berkeley occupies a Knightsbridge address where Hyde Park begins and Harrods is a short walk. Part of the Maybourne Hotel Group, its 190 rooms span individually designed interiors by André Fu, Robert Angell and John Heah. Marcus Wareing's restaurant, Cedric Grolet's pâtisserie, and the Surrenne wellness club complete a property that competes in London's tightest luxury tier.

London, United Kingdom
Hotel Café Royal hotel in London

London, United Kingdom

Hotel Café Royal

At the southern curve of Regent Street, Hotel Café Royal occupies a position that is as much historical as geographical — the address where Oscar Wilde drank, David Bowie partied, and a Georgian façade now conceals 160 rooms of Portland stone and Carrara marble. With two Michelin stars at Alex Dilling, a La Liste Top Hotels score of 97.5 points, and pastry from Albert Adrià's Cakes & Bubbles, it remains one of London's most complete luxury addresses.

London, United Kingdom
Corinthia Hotel London hotel in London

London, United Kingdom

Corinthia Hotel London

Corinthia Hotel London holds Two MICHELIN Keys in the 2025 guide, placing it among a small cohort of London properties recognised for hospitality standards that match their architectural ambition. Set on Whitehall Place in Westminster, the hotel occupies a converted Victorian building whose public spaces set a tone of considered formality before a guest reaches their room. For travellers whose stay is itself part of the itinerary, this is a serious address.

London, United Kingdom

Greater London

Bars

Selected entries from the current guide for Greater London.

Marksman restaurant in London

London, United Kingdom

Marksman

A brown-tiled Hackney Road fixture with St. JOHN lineage, Marksman occupies a specific position in London's pub dining canon: wood-panelled bar downstairs, more considered dining room above, and cooking that takes British seasonal produce as seriously as any white-tablecloth room. Holding a Michelin Plate and ranked #444 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual Europe list, it earns its reputation through restraint and sourcing rather than spectacle.

London, United Kingdom
Happiness Forgets bar in London

London, United Kingdom

Happiness Forgets

One of Hoxton Square's most recognised addresses, Happiness Forgets earned a place in the World's 50 Best Bars every year from 2012 to 2019, peaking at number six globally. The basement bar trades in precisely constructed cocktails without theatrical staging, positioning itself in the quieter, more technically serious end of London's drinking culture. Open daily from 5pm, it remains a reference point for how East London reshaped the city's cocktail conversation.

London, United Kingdom

Greater London

Wineries

Selected entries from the current guide for Greater London.

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