Six London restaurants were just added to the Michelin Guide

It’s that time again. The esteemed Michelin Guide has just announced its roster of newly added restaurants. 

Michelin’s anonymous inspectors are constantly on the road sampling new and existing restaurants in the UK and beyond. At the beginning of each month, the guide reveals the restaurants with deemed worthy of a spot in the Michelin Guide. That means that they use exceptional produce, create impeccable dishes and provide great value for money. It also means that they could be in the running for a Michelin star (which are handed out around February each year). 

Of the 16 eateries that impressed Michelin inspectors the most last month, six were in London. Here’s a breakdown of each London restaurant that made it onto the Michelin Guide in September 2025. 

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The new London restaurants in the Michelin Guide

Tom Brown at the Capital

It’s been a busy year for seafood specialist Tom Brown. After shutting his Hackney restaurant Cornerstone in 2024, he launched Island at Mare Street Market in the summer and appeared to quietly bid farewell to Pearly Queen only last week. But in arguably his biggest move of the year, Tom Brown returned into boutique Knightsbridge hotel The Capital – the same place he forged his early career – back in April. 

The Michelin Guide said: ‘The cooking has a classical basis with a touch of the experimentation we saw at Cornerstone, with all the dishes doing a great job of showing off fish and shellfish of undeniably great quality.’ You can expect plates like turbot with courgettes or cuttlefish cacio e pepe. 

Aqua Shard

The Shard’s 31st floor restaurant has been around for more than 10 years, but only made it onto the Michelin Guide last month. Obviously, the views from your table at Aqua Shard are outstanding, and Michelin confirms that ‘the cooking lives up to the surroundings’. It said that the restaurant spotlights ‘quality ingredients’ and ‘wisely [puts] nothing superfluous on the plate – the duck breast with sour cherry sauce will leave you licking your lips’. 

Calong

Stoke Newington’s new Korean-inspired joint Calong was the next London addition to the Michelin Guide. According to the guide, its ‘appealingly priced blackboard menu’ offers ‘a great mix of European cuisine with subtle Korean flavours’. Think stuff like kimchi fritters, seafood jjamppong and roast lamb with gochujang fregola and merguez. 

One Club Row 

Michelin calls One Club Row a ‘delightfully fun little bistro’. Once you walk through its blue door on a graffitied street in Shoreditch, ‘utterly charming’ staff guide you up to the first floor via a secret stairway. Inspired by both Parisian brasseries and New York taverns, the kitchen offers dishes like pork schnitzel with mustard sauce and gorgonzola, rice pudding crème brûlée and moules frites with lemongrass, spring onion and curry leaf. 

Tamila

From the same people behind Islington’s Tamil Prince and Tamil Crown, trendy south Indian spot Tamila opened in Clapham last October. The Michelin Guide said: ‘The concise menu keeps things simple and is all the better for it, starting with moreish onion bhajis and continuing with a knockout Thanjavur chicken curry. What makes it even better is the mightily appealing prices, meaning you can share a broad range of dishes with friends and come away without your wallet feeling too bruised.’

Tamila opened a second branch in King’s Cross back in January and we gave a perfect five stars when we visited a few months later. 

The Connaught Grill 

One of Time Out’s favourite Mayfair restaurants, The Connaught Grill, also earned a spot on the Michelin Guide last month. Michelin said that the historic restaurant (it first opened in 1955) ‘manages to look refreshed while still retaining the sense of old-school glamour most come here for’.

When it comes to the food, grilled meat and fish takes centre stage. When he visited Time Out editor Joe Mackertich sampled the ‘slinky and silky’ wagyu, the ‘glossy and crispy’ blackleg chicken. He said ‘for fans of clever cookery, and flawless wood-burning brilliance, there’s tons to enjoy’.