Chelsea area guide

Even if you don’t live near Chelsea, you should try to visit this exceptional restaurant at least once. The decor is understated: soothing grey-green colour...

Although Tom Aikens first made his mark in haute cuisine, this brasserie is his stab at a more egalitarian style of cooking and service. It offers ‘food...

Clare Smyth MBE has now been appointed chef-patron of Gordon Ramsay’s flagship Chelsea restaurant. Her name features on the intelligently inventive menu, and...

Let’s get the awkward stuff out of the way. This long-awaited sequel to Dinings W1 is not cheap. But if sushi is your desert island dinner, it’s worth it. It’s...

A 300-year-old pub in Chelsea’s heartland now a full gastropub that is still just as dedicated to its beer-drinking crowd. 

This upmarket gastropub eschews any pubbiness in favour of a cocktail-bar-cum-restaurant feel. 

A food-focused pub that puts more focus on cocktails and wine than craft beers. 

A cosy and likeable boozer with an agreeable balance between drinkers and diners.

‘Tonteria’ means ‘nonsense’ in Spanish, and this Mexican-themed Sloaney hangout has silliness in spades: think fire-eating women in latex, live lucha libre...

If you like polish, Ritorno is the place for you. This cocktail bar on the King’s Road must go through buckets of the stuff. It’s got the kind of swish glossy...

A speakeasy themed cocktail bar in Sloane Avenue that's hidden behind an inconspicuous black door. Inside the venue is decorated like a quirky living room cum...

Once a magnificent art deco garage complex with links to speed racer Sir Malcolm Campbell (hence the name), this is now a multipurpose eating and drinking...

A five-star oasis just off Sloane Square providing a quintessentially British experience. 

Complete with dramatic, orientalist decor, this boutique hotel is a living casebook for interior design students.

Yes, you'll have to pay entrance to the Chelsea Physic Garden to enjoy this café, but then a wander within the garden's walls is a delight in itself – and the...

King’s Road café serving all-day breakfasts, afternoon tea and, come the evening, by-the-glass wines

This Sydney Street spot is the fourth branch from Bumpkin - a chain that kicked things off with a venue in Notting Hill. It's all about classic British cooking...

Selling the kind of clothes that cost a month’s rent (but that you’d consider going temporarily homeless for), Boutique 1 is Sloane Street’s latest swish...

Splash out on some of the capital's most inventive, tasty and jaw-droppingly presented Japanese food. 

Home to more than 150 species of plant, you can also find the lovely Tangerine Dream Café nestled in the half-acre garden. 

Discover some unknown, young and contemporary artists both homegrown and international.

Tucked away at the wrong end of Chelsea, this jazz club is almost exclusively limited to British jazz musicians.