The Best Hotel Restaurants To Visit

The English Grill at The Rubens at the Palace

Opposite the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace, The English Grill is The Rubens at the Palace’s rather grand ode to British cooking. Executive Chef Ben Kelliher oversees the two-AA-Rosette restaurant, where steaks hit the charcoal-fired Josper Grill and the signature Beef Wellington remains the thing to order. The glass wall overlooking the pass brings some kitchen theatre to proceedings, while a Champagne trolley and tableside service keep things suitably old-school.

Where: 39 Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, SW1W 0PS
Website: www.rubenshotel.com

Theo Randall Cucina Italiana at InterContinental London Park Lane

Theo Randall has been cooking at the InterContinental London Park Lane for two decades, which makes his restaurant something of a hotel dining institution. His rustic Italian cooking is informed by regular trips to Italy and changes with the seasons, balancing carefully sourced Italian ingredients with British produce. September brings a Lazio regional menu, while Randall’s cookery masterclasses and visiting-chef dinners give you plenty of reasons to return beyond a straightforward bowl of pasta and glass of Italian wine.

Where: InterContinental London Park Lane by IHG, One Hamilton Place, Park Lane, London W1J 7QY
Website: parklane.intercontinental.com

The Lanesborough Grill at The Lanesborough

If you want your hotel restaurant to actually feel like a hotel restaurant, The Lanesborough Grill delivers. Executive Chef Shay Cooper’s menus are proudly British, with ingredients coming from the country’s shores, farms and artisan producers. The current line-up includes sea bream carpaccio, native lobster risotto, its signature aged Cheddar soufflé and a Beef Wellington for two, followed by reassuringly British desserts such as apple and blackberry crumble soufflé. All of this is served in one of London’s grander dining rooms overlooking Hyde Park Corner.

Where: 39 Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, SW1W 0PS
Website: www.rubenshotel.com

Michael Caines at The Stafford

Michael Caines at The Stafford only celebrates its first birthday this September, but it already has a Michelin star to its name, awarded just six months after opening. Caines’ modern British cooking is the draw, but the setting helps considerably: tucked inside The Stafford in St James’s, it feels suitably removed from the bustle outside and works particularly well when dinner needs to feel like an occasion.

Where: 16, 18 St. James’s Place, London
Website: thestaffordlondon.com

Gordon Ramsay at Sea Containers

One of September’s biggest restaurant openings also happens to be inside a hotel. Gordon Ramsay has taken over the restaurant at Sea Containers London, putting British produce, seafood, shellfish and premium cuts from the grill at the centre of the menu. Floor-to-ceiling Thames views do much of the heavy lifting when it comes to atmosphere, while having Lyaness downstairs and 12th Knot upstairs means you could very easily turn dinner into an entire evening without leaving the building.

Where: 20 Upper Ground, London
Website: www.seacontainerslondon.com

Rosi at The Beaumont Mayfair

Lisa Goodwin-Allen is behind the food at Rosi, The Beaumont’s modern British restaurant. Her menu starts with familiar British classics and gives them a more contemporary treatment, guided by seasonality and British produce. The result fits The Beaumont rather nicely: elegant and polished, but without tipping into the formality that can occasionally make grand hotel restaurants feel like somewhere you should be whispering.

Where: The Beaumont Brown Hart Gardens Mayfair London W1K 6TF
Website: www.thebeaumont.com

Yopo Zaytoun at The Mandrake

The Mandrake has never exactly done understated, and Yopo Zaytoun follows suit. The restaurant moves between an art-filled interior and a heated outdoor space draped in jasmine and passionflowers, while the food looks towards the Mediterranean and Levant. Wood-fired sharing plates are the focus, spanning charcoal-grilled seafood, slow-roasted vegetables, meats and warm flatbreads with whipped dips. Come for dinner, but the wonderfully weird setting is at least half the reason to book.

Where: The Mandrake, 20-21 Newman Street, London W1T 1PG
Website: www.themandrake.com

Ormer Mayfair at Flemings Mayfair

Ormer is one for when a casual plate of something downstairs simply isn’t going to cut it. The Michelin-starred restaurant offers five- and seven-course tasting menus, priced at £95 and £140 respectively, with much of the seasonal produce supplied by its own two-acre kitchen garden in Essex. That relationship between garden and kitchen shapes the menus, making provenance more than something relegated to a sentence at the bottom of the menu.

Where: Flemings Mayfair Hotel, Half Moon Street, London, W1J 7BH
Website: www.flemings-mayfair.co.uk

Quilon at Taj 51 Buckingham Gate

Quilon has held a Michelin star since 2008, making it one of the considerably more established names on this list. Chef Sriram Aylur has headed the kitchen since the restaurant opened in 1999, specialising in the coastal cooking of South-West India. Seafood plays a major role, naturally, with signatures including Seafood Moilee alongside Baked Black Cod and Oyster Three Ways, while Malabar Lamb Biryani and plenty of vegetarian dishes round things out. Everything is designed to be shared, so bring people who aren’t precious about their plates.

Where: 51 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6JP
Website: taj51buckinghamgate.co.uk

Beefbar at Dear Jackie

Dear Jackie has had something of a transformation. From September, the restaurant inside Broadwick Soho becomes Beefbar at Dear Jackie, bringing Riccardo Giraudi’s Monaco-born steakhouse to London. Beef is obviously the point, but the menu isn’t simply a parade of enormous steaks: Beefbar signatures sit alongside street-food-inspired plates, pizzette and Wagyu and veal Bolognese, with an Italian influence carried over from Dear Jackie.

Where: 20 Broadwick Street, London
Website: www.broadwicksoho.com

190 Queen’s Gate at The Gore

Around the corner from the Royal Albert Hall, 190 Queen’s Gate is particularly useful to know before a concert. Head Chef Frederick Forster works with seasonal British produce, bringing a contemporary edge to recognisable British flavours, while Sunday lunch gives another excuse to visit. The Gore itself is gloriously historic and characterful, so there’s little danger of forgetting you’re eating inside one of South Kensington’s old-school hotels.

Where: 190 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 5EX
Website: collezione.starhotels.com

The Franklin Restaurant at The Franklin

With just 30 seats overlooking the private greenery of Egerton Gardens, The Franklin is about as far from the cavernous hotel dining room stereotype as you can get. Head Chef Roberto Roncolato’s cooking is rooted in Italy but wanders around the wider Mediterranean, while Anouska Hempel’s velvet, silk and Venetian-mirror interiors make dinner feel appropriately glamorous.

Where: 24 Egerton Gardens, London SW3 2DB
Website: collezione.starhotels.com

La Trattoria at The Pelham

Also under Roberto Roncolato is La Trattoria at The Pelham, a more relaxed proposition just opposite South Kensington station. Traditional Italian cooking forms the backbone of the menu, reworked with a contemporary touch and served in the colourful surrounds of the townhouse hotel. It’s family-friendly and intentionally informal, making this one of the options on the list that works just as well for an impromptu lunch as a planned dinner.

Where: 15 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2LA
Website: collezione.starhotels.com

Straits Kitchen at Pan Pacific London

Straits Kitchen’s five-course experience menu is the way to get properly acquainted with the restaurant. Available every evening, it pulls together some of the kitchen’s signature dishes, including Hereford beef and Cornish crab risotto, across five courses. It’s an easy option when you don’t particularly want the responsibility of navigating an à la carte menu yourself.

Where: 80 Houndsditch, London EC3A 7AB
Website: www.panpacific.com

Blue Door Bistro at The Montague on the Gardens

Blue Door Bistro is the sort of hotel restaurant that works because it feels remarkably like a neighbourhood one. Inside The Montague on the Gardens, close to the British Museum, it focuses on seasonal British cooking in warm, traditional surroundings. Its location also makes it particularly useful for a leisurely lunch or dinner before heading into the West End.

Where: 15 Montague Street, London WC1B 5BJ
Website: www.montaguehotel.com

The Tudor Pass at Great Fosters

For one worth leaving London for, The Tudor Pass has only seven tables and sits inside the historic Great Fosters estate. Michelin-starred and led since 2025 by Stefano Di Giosia, formerly of The Fat Duck and KOL, the restaurant serves inventive tasting menus built around seasonality and local produce, including ingredients grown in the estate’s kitchen gardens and orchards. With such a tiny dining room, this is very much the hotel restaurant to make the destination rather than stumble into after check-in.

Where: Stroude Road, Egham, Surrey TW20 9UR
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Palm Court at Sheraton Grand London Park Lane

Palm Court is best known for afternoon tea, but it’s also an all-day dining spot beneath the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane’s rather spectacular glass dome. This autumn sees the return of its Classic Afternoon Tea, with finger sandwiches, freshly baked scones and pastries including raspberry and pistachio opera and a mandarin cheesecake with Earl Grey biscuit. Afternoon tea starts at £59, but you can also stop by for everything from morning coffee to lunch, cocktails and light bites later in the day.

Where: Sheraton Grand London Park Lane, Piccadilly, London
Website: www.sheratonparklane.com

The Parlour at Great Scotland Yard Hotel

Designed as a modern tearoom with nods to the building’s 19th-century history, The Parlour offers all-day dining with a seasonal à la carte lunch built around British ingredients. This autumn, however, things get a little more theatrical. From September to November, its afternoon tea becomes The Great Autumn Investigation, an immersive mystery where each course reveals another part of the story and the sweet treats come with clues to crack along the way.

Where: 3-5 Great Scotland Yard, London SW1A 2HN
Website: www.hyatt.com

Eastway Brasserie at Andaz London Liverpool Street

Eastway Brasserie is the relaxed, all-day option inside Andaz London Liverpool Street, making it particularly useful whether you’re after a quick City lunch or something more substantial. The menu moves from aubergine romesco and corn-fed chicken with orzo to plenty from the grill, including Cornish sea bass, salmon and flame-grilled sirloin and ribeye steaks. There’s also a midweek two-hour Happy Hour, an Express Lunch prix fixe and a choice of afternoon teas, including a Champagne option.

Where: 40 Liverpool Street, London EC2M 7QN, England
Website: www.hyatt.com

The Montagu Kitchen at Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill

The Montagu Kitchen overlooks Portman Square and takes a Mediterranean approach to open-fire cooking, with the restaurant built around its Josper Grill. Start with sharing plates and skewers of octopus, chicken shish tawook or lemon and chilli prawns before moving onto the serious stuff, including a 550g, 21-day dry-aged T-bone. Southern European influences continue elsewhere with dishes like fresh egg rigatoni with mushroom, black truffle and Parmesan cream, backed up by a wine list designed for lingering over lunch or dinner.

Where: 30 Portman Square, London W1H 7BH
Website: www.hyatt.com

Brasserie Angelica at The Newman

Brasserie Angelica at The Newman turns big-room hotel dining into something intimate rather than cavernous. The dining room’s classic, European-leaning style — white linens, polished cutlery and a sandwich trolley — sets a rhythm that makes a long lunch feel like an afternoon. The kitchen leans on live-fire cooking with hits like smoky king prawns with herb garlic butter and a winter endive salad that balances sharp bitterness with soft vitality. For mains, the fillet steak with bone marrow gravy and hand-cut fries is a gorgeous, simple display of European dining, and the cinnamon doughnut with vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate sauce proves that dessert can steal the show, too. It’s a Brasserie with presence: anchored in technique, and exactly the sort of all-day hotel restaurant London should be relying on.

Where: 49 Newman Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 3DZ
Website: www.brasserieangelica.com

The Twenty Two

The Twenty Two, as well as being one of the coolest hotels in London, also hosts a charming neighbourhood restaurant that introduces a Mediterranean flair to modern British cuisine. Led by Executive Chef Alan Christie, the menu embraces a minimalist approach, ensuring each dish is crafted with a focus on natural flavours and a lighter style.

The drink selection offers features classic cocktails and unique creations, all made with the finest ingredients and a commitment to conscientious practices.

where: 22 Grosvenor Sq, London W1K 6LF
website: www.thetwentytwo.com

Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester

For the true pinnacle of London dining, it’s hard to look past Alain Ducasse’s eponymous three-star restaurant at The Dorchester. A new menu collection is introduced each month, dependent on seasonality, but the same French haute cuisine and London hospitality remain. Technical brilliance is paired with culinary innovation to create a menu that is always challenging and always delivering the cutting edge in modern cuisine.

where: 53 Park Ln, London W1K 1QA
website: www.dorchestercollection.com

The Grill at The Dorchester 

The Dorchester is less a hotel and more a London institution. And within its hallowed halls is The Grill, a restaurant that promises timeless glamour and culinary excellence, which is certainly what they deliver. Expect silver trolleys with steak tartare prepared in front of you, an extensive seafood selection and a few, very special steak options, including tomahawk and Wagyu. The desert range offers some contrasting old school classics like banana split and Alaskan flambé, but we recommend the apple tarte Tatin and decadent chocolate mousse. From the bar, we enjoy the “One sip martini”, which is thankfully more than one sip as it’s delicious and served with an orange twist. 

where: 53 Park Ln, London W1K 1QA
website: www.Thegrill.com

St Martin’s Lane

If you’re after a taste of Covent Garden, look no further than The Restaurant at St Martins Lane. The lunch and dinner a la carte is deliciously French-inspired with bites such as slow-cooked lamb breast, pan-seared sea bass, smoked trout or prawn mille-feuille.

Pair these with their extensive selection of delectable cocktails and fine wines, and you’ve got the perfect recipe for a day out in London’s West End.

WHERE: 45 St Martin’s Lane, WC2N 4HX
WEBSITE: www.book.ennismore.com

The Ritz

A place that needs no introduction, The Ritz has essentially become shorthand in London for upscale dining. First opening in 1906, it quickly became known as London’s most prestigious hotel and has played host to everyone from Anna Pavlova to Charles de Gaulle – most icons of the 20th Century, in fact. 

The restaurant offers a Michelin-star menu in its iconic dining room from Chef John Williams, focusing on the very best British ingredients and always seasonal. 

where: 150 Piccadilly, St. James’s, London W1J 9BR
website: www.theritz.com