28 London restaurants have been honoured in a prestigious list of the best places to eat in the world

London is home to some of the best restaurants and chefs on the planet. Our glorious city has long been a leader in the world of fine dining, but in case you needed extra confirmation of just how brilliant this city’s food scene is, an impressive number of its restaurants have just been named among the best 1,000 on the globe. 

Every year, global gourmet guide La Liste compiles feedback from publications, guidebooks and online reviews to determine which eateries across the world are the greatest of them all. And, just like last year, 28 restaurants in London made the cut. 

Once again, the highest scoring London restaurants in this year’s ranking were Core by Clare Smyth in Notting Hill and the Ritz Restaurant in Piccadilly. Both earned 98 points out of 100. 

In our roundup of London’s Michelin decorated spots, Time Out food editor Leonie Cooper called Core (which boasts three Michelin stars) is ‘elegant, vibrant, not pompous, and great fun’ and that it’s dishes are ‘special with immense technical brio but also a playful streak that makes it all very accessible’. 

And when it comes to the Ritz Restaurant, which earned its second star this year, Leonie said: ‘Aside from the Michelin-starred food and all the gilt, what you are buying here is a conservative formula, complete with coat-tailed politesse, cloches, a tinkling piano and the reassurance that all remains unruffled in this privileged world.’

Meals at each place will set you back a hefty amount. A dinner at Core by Clare Smyth costs £225 per head, while a five-course sit-down at the Ritz is priced at £199. 

The third best score for a London restaurant went to Hélène Darroze at The Connaught. It was awarded 95 points to rise above last year’s number three Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester. In fact, Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester was bumped down to sixth place, with Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and Sushi Kanesaka also going up the ranks. 

The London restaurants in La Liste’s Top 1000 Restaurants 2026 

Here’s every restaurant in the capital that made it onto La Liste’s ranking this year, plus their score out of 100. 

1. Core by Clare Smyth - 98
2. The Ritz Restaurant - 98
3. Hélène Darroze at The Connaught - 95
4. Restaurant Gordon Ramsay - 93 
5. Sushi Kanesaka - 92.5
6. Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester - 92
7. Brooklands by Claude Bosi - 91
8. The Araki - 90.5
9. The Clove Club - 90.5
10. Story - 90
11. Row on 5 - 89.5
12. Kol - 86.5
13. Sketch - The Lecture Room and Library - 86
14. A. Wong - 85.5
15. Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal - 85.5
16. Endo at the Rotunda - 85
17. Da Terra - 82.5
18. Kitchen Table - 82.5
19. Muse - 82.5
20. Trivet - 82.5
21. Cornus - 82
22. Ikoyi - 81.5
23. The Ledbury - 81 
24. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal - 80.5
25. The Cocochine - 80
26. Humble Chicken - 79.5
27. Ormer Mayfair - 78
28. Gymkhana -76

For more fantastic restaurants (that suit every budget!), see Time Out’s expertly curated roundup of the capital’s 50 best places to eat in 2025. 

Plus: Check out the 35 London bars have been named in the 500 best in the world. 

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