The best bottomless brunches in London

Take your pick between the ace avo toast or the Kimchi BEC – a Dusty Knuckle focaccia with bacon, Burford Brown eggs, kimchi and American cheese. Everything is served with chef-owner Freddie Janssen’s signature house-made dill pickle and you can get hash browns on the side, too. If that’s not enough, finish things off with a perfect pud, like a ice cream sundae with sour cherry and ricotta. Food coma bliss, incoming.

Price: £35 per person for one main, side and dessert as well as bottomless Mimosas or Bloody Marys.

Rise and shine in Shoreditch with a menu of Aussie-leaning brunch treats – from BBQ beef brisket hash and avocado poke bowls to coffee and cream French toast and smash avo on sourdough. Speaking of smashed, guests can choose from bottomless Mimosas for classic brunch vibes or go classy with prosecco a-flowing. Lantana is sympathetic to the teetotallers too, offering coffee and juices on tap. And with its Aussie roots, you know the coffee will be bonzer.

Price: £45 per person with bottomless prosecco, Mimosas and coffee with any brunch item. £39 with unlimited juices and coffee. Saturday and Sunday, 9am to 4pm. 90-minute time limit.

When the original, ultra-sleek Standard hotel opened in LA, it was a place for hyped bands to stay and for the city’s scenesters to party at super-exclusive disco nights. It’s no wonder, then, that its King’s Cross outpost feels very, very hip. Its restaurant Double Standard – with its sleazy ’70s aesthetic and dive-bar menu – is a big ol’ part of that. On Sundays, it hosts bottomless brunch, with unlimited Bloody Marys and a brunch burger with, er, Bloody Mary ketchup (plus American classics like banana pancakes). It’s also got a very nice, sunny terrace if eating breakfast in a space that screams ‘4am afterparty’ feels wrong.

Price: £25 for unlimited Blood Marys and prosecco. Food priced separately. Sunday 12pm to 4pm.

Toast devotees, shield your eyes – the menu at this Peckham restaurant offers Taiwanese takes on brunch classics with the traditional bready carbs replaced by Mr Bao’s soft ’n’ springy milk-white steamed buns. The bacon bao is the pick of the bunch and there's a veggie option with teriyaki shiitake mushrooms. Whatever you choose, at least one punchier-than-average Bloody Mary is non-negotiable. Food comes individually priced, and you add unrelenting booze for a hour a pop on top.

Price: £18-22 per hour for bottomless cocktails. 

The weekend brunch menu at Roka Aldwych goes under the title of ‘han setto’, which is Japanese for ‘gently wasted’. Just kidding (it means ‘set menu’) although the procession of ten sharing plates, plus a main and a sumptuous dessert platter, does come with the option of unlimited wine throughout the meal – and you’ll be pleased to hear that staff don’t hold back with top-ups. Move from dumplings, sashimi, tempura and the like to hearty grilled meats and veg from the robata. The dessert platter’s sugar rush will lift you from any post-wine slump.

Price: £69.50 per person for sharing plates, a main course, dessert platter and unlimited red or white wine as well as a cocktail on arrival. Saturday daytime and all day Sunday.  

The very swanky The Aubrey – which takes its name from the darkly decadent Victorian-era illustrator Aubrey Beardsley – one of the fancier options around. This lavish fine dining Japanese joint does a bountiful brunch every Friday to Sunday, with two hours of free-flowing booze to wash down the likes of okonomiyaki, matcha french toast and Tokyo eggs royale. Chic as hell. 

Price: £50 per person for bottomless sake, Champagne or cocktails for two hours. Food is priced separately. 

Timing is of the essence at The Blues Kitchen, where the bottomless deal on rum punch or prosecco runs for 90 minutes every Saturday and Sunday. Food is southern-ish, with eggs however you like them on sourdough toast, alongside your pick of bacon, sausage, spinach, roast tomato, avocado, miso mushrooms, halloumi, baked beans, potato hash, and veggie sausage. You can also wash down your booze with huevos rancheros and fluffy buttermilk pancakes. The Brixton and Shoreditch branches also offer the same boozy deal. 

Price: £19.95/£21.95 for bottomless drinks, food priced separately. 

This chic barbecue joint is a sort-of industrial, sort-of retro space where tough-nut chefs chuck huge hunks of meat on to charcoal fires in a central open kitchen. Sit back and watch the show with unlimited wines, beer, red gin fizz and lychilli Margarita cocktails. For food you'll get a BBQ platter with coal-roasted and dry-aged belted Galloway beef, house-made smoked beef sausages and pork burnt ends. Potatoes come with gochujang butter and there are fried eggs, charred Ramiro peppers with red onions, bourbon-pickled chillis, paratha and chimichurri. Woof. The deal's also available in the Soho and Shoreditch branches.

Price: £45 for 90-minutes of bottomless wine, beer or cocktails and a barbecue brunch platter. Saturday noon to 3.30pm.

After a heavy Saturday night, what do hardcore caners do? They carry on the party somewhere where the sun don’t shine and where the rock music doesn’t spare their tender eardrums. The Flesh & Buns brunch is a no-brainer for postponing and minimising your oncoming hangover, with a selection of chips, dips and edamame plus a choice of three small dishes per person (and a signature bao bun to boot) – plus as much hair of the dog as you can stomach (lager, prosecco, red or white wine) to ease the pain (for now). It’s not a traditional brunch menu by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s all tasty ballast.

Price: £65 on a Saturday or £45 on a Sunday. Sat service runs until 3.15pm and Sun to 4pm.

These two course bottomless brunch lets you pick whatever you fancy from a savoury menu, followed by a sweet and throws an hour and a half of endless fizz and Mimosas into the mix. Choose from fancy bacon rolls, banana bread sandiwches, and the ubiquitous smashed avo on toast. We're here for The Dirty Daisy; tater tots slathered with chipotle sourcream, cheese, chorizo, egg, green tomato and avocado salsa, refried black beans and pink pickled onions.

Price: £49.90 per person, or £35 for the 'Tea-Total' option, which comes with sparking Kombucha. 

Few London restaurants channel big holiday energy like El Pirata. The luxury Mayfair spot has the vibe of a fancy joint on a Spanish city break. Bottomless brunch is more about snacking on very good small plates – padron peppers, tortilla, prawns with chilli, garlic and olive oil – than eating and drinking yourself into a stupor. The booze add on is an hour and a half of non-stop sangria.

Price: £26pp - minimum two people - for food, add on £26 for bottomless sangria for 90 minutes. Saturday 12pm to 3pm.

Bourne & Hollingsworth does bottomless brunch in its purest form. The venue? A light-drenched conservatory filled with ferns and palms. The menu? Two courses of simple breakfast food – smoothie bowls, pancakes, avo on toast, hash browns – alongside as many Bellinis, Bloody Marys, fizz or spritzes as you can handle, plus hot drinks. It’s a formula that’s been copied across the city, but these lads do it properly. Prices go up depending on what booze you pick. 

Price: £39.50/42.50/44.50

Inject some colour into your mid-morning feasting, with the prettiest Peruvian plates paired with bottomless prosecco. That booze also goes well with sharing plates of sea bream tiradito, fried aubergine with smoked yoghurt or Pachamama’s signature brunch waffles – the sweet version topped with peanut butter, grilled plantain, coconut and Peruvian chocolate is a must-try. If you’re missing the famous full English, order up the bacon, egg and yacon syrup waffle while you jam to bachata beats.

Price: £27.50 per person for food, £22 extra for unlimited prosecco. Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 4pm. Two-hour time limit.

The NYC original of this dim sum restaurant rose to Insta fame for its cutesy spin on trad Chinese cuisine. For your dosh you'll get eight signature house dishes like Pac Man shrimp dumplings and black cod skewers served Szechuan hot pot style. There’s a decent booze offering too – from prosecco to chenin blanc and Tsing Tao. You’ll leave happily woozy and brimming with foodie snaps for the ’gram.

Price: £68 per person (bottomless house wine, champagne, and beer)/£48 for alcohol-free. Saturday and Sunday, seatings at 12pm or 2pm. 

The perfect brunch-time distraction for culture vultures who have bookmarked a weekend meet-up with friends and a visit to Tate Modern or the South Bank, Sea Containers’ waterside dining room offers a sharing deal in maritime-themed, trompe l’oeil surrounds. The menu goes on a transatlantic cruise, stopping off for buttermilk fried chicken bagel or a poshed-up mac ’n’ cheese with pulled pork. 

Price: £19 per person for bottomless prosecco or Bloody Marys. Bottomless Laurent-Perrier Brut for £59. All brunch items priced individually. Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays, noon to 4pm (last seating). 90-minute time limit.

Broaden your brunching horizons at the flagship branch of the Argentinian steakhouse tucked away near Regent Street. Its big on aesthetics: all modernist-style furniture and glitzy-glam decor. Looks aside, go for the South-American inspired brunch where your tastebuds will be similarly dazzled with the likes of Argentinian sausages, prawn tostadas, empanadas and beetroot ceviche. For mains there's Gaucho’s signature marinated churrasco de cuadrill or brunch burger.

Price: £75 (booze free £50).

Sure, breakfast might be the most important meal of the day, but brunch is obviously the most fun. If you’re in the game for top-notch cuts of quality meat and sausages, Smiths is right down your alley. Go all out for its ox cheek crumpet with Marmite hollandaise, poached egg and fried onions and swing for oysters as a starter. Plum and almond clafoutis is our pick of the puds.

Price: £60 per person for bottomless prosecco, Mimosas or Bloody Marys, a gin welcome cocktail and a three-plate meal, or £85 for the above plus champagne instead of prosecco plus caviar and cream cheese blinis. Saturday only, noon to 8pm. Two-hour time limit.

Le Bab’s founders trained in Michelin-starred restaurants and their interpretation of the humble kebab is as classy as it gets. They come served open sandwich-style, the seasonal ingredients artfully arranged over a thin, house-made flatbread cooked on a wood and charcoal-fired robata. Go for the small plates, convivial staff and Soho-cool atmos. This isn't quite a brunch deal however, but an evening offer. Post 5pm, you can have unlimited kebabs and mezze, Prosecco, wine and beers for two hours. The deal applied to groups of 10 or more every Thurs-Sat (maximum 25 people) and must be booked in advance. 

Price: £39 per person, from 5pm, for two hours.