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Forget the Ritz, forget St John and forget the River Café. The best fine dining restaurant in London and the second best in the whole of the UK, according to TripAdvisor, is on four wheels.
The website’s 2026 Travellers’ Choice Awards: Best of the Best Restaurants highlights restaurants and dining experiences around the world that have the highest proportion of exceptional reviews, and are among the top one percent of TripAdvisor listings.
Travelling restaurant Bustronome won silver on TripAdvisor’s list of the best fine dining venues in the UK. It’s no ordinary restaurant. Bustronome is a high-end experience aboard a double-decker bus, offering four to six courses while you cruise through London past 17 of its best known sights. If you suffer from motion sickness, this one might not be for you.
While you look out the window to admire Tower Bridge, St Paul’s Cathedral, Trafalgar Square and the Natural History Museum, you’ll be served dishes such as sea bass tartare, rolled cod, roasted chicken supreme and a tiramisu sphere. The menu changes every season, so if you come back for more, it could be an entirely different experience.
Tripadvisor calls the moving restaurant an ‘unrivalled combination of aesthetics and leisure’. It has an overall rating of 4.9 out of five on the site based on more than 900 reviews, and ranks 42nd out of 23,000 London restaurants.
One recent diner said that Bustronome’s food was ‘exceptional’. Another wrote enthusiastically: ‘Food is amazing. Service amazing. Driver amazing. Ambience amazing’. Someone who tried it earlier this month reported: ‘It sounds a little gimmicky at first, but once you’re actually on the bus, it’s such a nice way to see the city while having a meal. You’re eating, chatting, and then suddenly you’re passing some of London’s famous spots.’
The only other London restaurant in the top 10 was Baluchi at at Lalit London Hotel. TripAdvisor called it a ‘a perfect amalgamation of two great cultures. While the food takes you on a culinary journey of authentic flavours from the Indian subcontinent, the lavish interiors including vaulted ceiling, rich blues and dark wood highlight the British element.’ Los Mochis London City came 16th and Sparrow Italia Mayfair came 18th.
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