It’s certainly no secret that London is a pretty decent city to be in if you’re on the lookout for a delicious place to stuff your face, but it’s nice to have it confirmed in writing every so often, isn’t it? Especially when the writing in question comes courtesy of one of the most highly-esteemed gastronomic guides on the planet.
That’s right, folks: The List has recently unveiled their coveted list of the world’s 1000 best restaurants for 2026. And a rather respectable number of London’s eateries managed to earn themselves a seat at the (perfectly set) table.
In case you weren’t already aware, the lovely lot over at The List have been carefully curating an annual catalogue of the world’s best restaurants for ten years now. Each year, they digitally scour the length and breadth of the planet, trawling through ‘thousands of publications, hundreds of guidebooks, and millions of online reviews’ in a bid to find the culinary crème de la crème. They give each restaurant a score out of 100, and then compile them all into a handy list for our perusal.
28 London restaurants made the cut this year, but two in particular came up trumps and landed in the top 100. Core by Clare Smyth and the Ritz Restaurant both earned themselves the outrageously impressive score of 98 out of 100. And it seems as though consistency is key, as they’re the very same two London restaurants that made the top 100 in last year’s guide, too. Not bad, hey?
The London restaurants that have been named among the best in the world:
- Core by Clare Smyth
- The Ritz Restaurant
- Hélène Darroze at The Connaught
- Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
- Sushi Kanesaka
- Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester
- Brooklands by Claude Bosi
- The Araki
- The Clove Club
- Story
- Row on 5
- Kol
- Sketch – The Lecture Room & Library
- A. Wong
- Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal
- Endo at the Rotunda
- From Earth
- Kitchen Table
- Muse
- Trivet
- Horn
- Ikoyi
- The Ledbury
- Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
- The Cocochine
- Humble Chicken
- Worms Mayfair
- Gymkhana
You can feast your eyes on La Liste’s full findings here.
