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Esteemed restaurant guide Harden’s has revealed its list of the UK’s 100 best restaurants for 2026. And while no London restaurants ranked in the top three, the capital cleaned up quite nicely across the rest of the list.
The ranking, which is based on 30,000 reports from a survey of 2,500 diners, features 38 London institutions this year. And the highest ranked of the lot was The Ledbury in Notting Hill.
Placing fourth on the ranking, diners hailed The Ledbury for its ‘head-to-toe near perfection… from the the owner, to the staff and especially to the tasting menu’ and ‘wallet-scorching but exceptional’. It received a ‘very good’ four out of five for its food and ambiance and a ‘good’ three out of five for service.
The luxury institution from chefs Brett Graham and Nigel Platts-Martin has been around since 2005 and has been showered with accolades over the past few decades. It’s been named the UK’s best restaurant on multiple occasions, earned two Michelin stars by 2010 and picked up its third Michelin star in 2024. The Ledbury closed for two years after the pandemic but since returning in 2022 has gone from strength to strength. One reviewer called the dishes ‘genius’ while another said it has ‘unquestionably the most impressive front of house staff’ they’ve ever encountered.
Being so highly decorated, eating here doesn’t come cheap. If you were to stop by The Ledbury for a three-course dinner plus half a bottle of wine and coffee, you’re looking at spending around £345.
Other London restaurants to make it into Harden’s top 10 were Row on 5, Humble Chicken in Soho and Da Terra in Bethnal Green. First place went to the three Michelin-star Moor Hall in Lancashire.
All the London restaurants in Harden’s top 100 UK restaurants for 2025 (and where they placed)
- The Ledbury (4)
- Row on 5 (5)
- Humble Chicken (7)
- Da Terra, Town Hall Hotel (9)
- Behind (18)
- Rokesu (19)
- Plates (21)
- Sollip (23)
- Core by Clare Smyth (25)
- Kitchen Table (27)
- A Wong (29)
- Akoko (39)
- AngloThao (40)
- Restaurant St. Barts (41)
- Trinity (42)
- Hunan (43)
- Caractère (44)
- Cornus (45)
- Iyoki (46)
- Kioku at the OWO (50)
- Frog by Adam Handling (52)
- Sketch, The Lecture Room and Library (53)
- Aulis London (55)
- La Petite Maison (56)
- The Ritz (57)
- Sushi Tetsu (58)
- Brooklands (64)
- Takahashi (65)
- Hide (71)
- Evelyn’s Table at the Blue Posts (72)
- SOLA (73)
- Trivet (74)
- The Cocochine (79)
- Kai Mayfair (81)
- Nobu, Metropolitan Hotel (85)
- Bar des Prés (90)
- Ormer Mayfair by Sofian, Flemings Mayfair Hotel (91)
- Hakkasan Mayfair (97)
Check out Time Outs list of the 50 best restaurants in London for 2025 here.
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