10 Of The Best New London Restaurants For Spring 2024

03.04.2024 - 18:41 / forbes.com / Mauro Colagreco / London

Here are ten of the newest dining experiences that contribute to London’s well-deserved reputation as a global culinary destination, from hotels with big-name chefs to some must-visit independents.

Mauro Colagreco at Raffles London is the new fine dining restaurant and first London venture from the globally renowned chef of three Michelin-starred Mirazur in France. Offering seasonal tasting menus focused on the British country garden, the chef has hand-selected his suppliers, drawing on local farmers and producers. Recent highlights have included: jerusalem artichoke, with hazelnut and cornish monkfish; lettuce, with vermouth and cockle sauce and plum, served in a crispy ravioli shell, black lemon ice cream and yoghurt fontainebleau. Next door, Mauro’s Table is an intimate space featuring an impressive dining table for up to 23 guests. His third restaurant, Saison, in the former historic library of the Old War Office, is more relaxed but the food is equally superb, serving locally sourced cuisine (the London Burrata with blood orange, basil, pistachio is outstanding, as is the Cornish Red Chicken) throughout the day including breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner.

The Nest Food Group was started by three friends, Johnnie, Luke and Toby whose newest venture is Nest (Old Street). Executive chef Johnnie Crowe (formerly of The Harwood Arms) chooses the very best of British seasonal produce from small-scale farmers and trusted suppliers including Alternative Meats, Shrub Provisions, Flourish Produce, Bello Wild, Flying Fish and Keltic Seafare. Nest, along with Restaurant St. Barts (Farringdon) serves reasonably-priced, innovative tasting menus. Nest focuses on one hero ingredient in the kitchen at a time and an optional “one-region” wine pairing. Recent menus have featured seafood with seaweed doughnuts and Chalk stream trout tart with wines from the Loire Valley. The current tasting menu (until 13 April) focuses on vegetables.

The team behind Michelin-starred Taku Mayfair has opened a brilliant new restaurant on the cobbled streets of Hampstead. Ine, meaning rice in Japanese, offers premium sushi, a contemporary Japanese a la carte menu and a 15-course omakase (I’ll leave it up to the chef) menu, with specialty sakes and wines. Highlights from the a la carte menu include: lobster with cauliflower and sudachi jelly; grilled Iberico pork; Wagyu beef katsu sando and grilled Yuan chicken. Available on both the omakase and a la carte menus is daily changing, fresh sashimi including Toro, Akami, Hamachi, Salmon and Saba. The chic, minimalist design complements the well-thought out menus.

If you love chicken, this chic new sibling to Bob Bob Ricard on Golden Square, is certain to please. The most