Sleek West End restaurant, cocktail bar and club. Book a table for dinner — and stay for dancing.
It may well be the younger, louder and more fun younger sibling to celebrity chef Gary Rhodes’s adjacent restaurant, but the dependable modern British grub certainly isn’t much cheaper.
Set inside the wonderfully tranquil Holland Park, this picture-perfect spot is arguably London’s most romantic restaurant.
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From the Olivo Restaurants family comes an eatery where the specialty is gourmet pizza and the atmosphere is earthy and modern.
Private members’ club in a grand 18th-century Georgian townhouse. Choose to eat in the fine dining restaurant, casual living rooms, bar or garden; use the spa; hang out in the elegant drawing room; or check into a bedroom upstairs.
Serious foodies and posers flock to the slick Japanese restaurant, where the sushi melts in your mouth and flavourful dishes are cooked over the robata grill. Prices are high, and tables are hard to come by — but in the end it’s all worth it.
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Upmarket version of sister restaurant. Same tacky decor, equally good dim sum and Cantonese food and fresh seafood dishes that come straight from the in-restaurant fish tanks.
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For heavenly British food with a modern twist, head to this famous London landmark. Take a seat in the cathedral crypt and enjoy delicious, locally sourced produce in dishes such as treacle-cured salmon with watercress or pressed rabbit with carrot relish.
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Dance, pose and drink (while you eat) at this chic Knightsbridge Japanese restaurant and bar. Food is top quality, but you pay for what you get.
Old-school Notting Hill venue (Pink Floyd and The Clash played there in the ’60s) is a multipurpose theatre, art studio and gallery, as well as a bar and restaurant with an outside courtyard.