Aimed at gourmets and international travellers, La Liste publishes its annual ranking of the top 1,000 places to eat out on the planet.
They compile feedback from publications, guidebooks and online reviews to decide which eateries are the best – and 26 London restaurants have made their 2026 list.
Most are clustered around Mayfair and Central London – or feature top names such as Gordon Ramsay and Clare Smyth – but diners who stray outside the centre can discover top class restaurants.
The Clove Club in Old Street opened in 2013 and is named after the original supper club that brought founders Daniel Willis, Isaac McHale and Johnny Smith together.
The two Michelin star restaurant serves modern British cooking – thoughtful, precise and elegant food in a relaxed and informal setting – in a £285 tasting menu that includes venison celeriac, cacao nib and horn of plenty mushrooms, or Cornish red mullet with citrus beurre blanc and rockfish sauce – all in the historic surroundings of Shoreditch Town Hall.
KoL in Seymour Street Marylebone also makes the cut for La Liste.
The Mexican fine dining restaurant, headed by chef Santiago Lastra, earned a Michelin star in its first year of opening and is regularly named among the country’s best in polls and awards.
It serves creative tasting menus for £185 in beautifully designed warm surroundigs reimagining traditional Mexican dishes such as langoustine taco with smoked chili and sea buckthorn, mole of lamb saddle with rye koji and wood sorrel, or hand dived scallop with rhubarb and pil pil.
Last but not least is Da Terra in Patriot Square – in the elegant surroundings of Edwardian Bethnal Green Town Hall – under the watchful eye of Brazilian chef Rafael Cagali.
Meaning of the earth, the restaurant opened in January 2019, gained its first Michelin star within eight months, and its second star in 2021.
The dishes are inspired by the flavours of his origins and influences of his culinary experiences, with the tasting menu coming in at £260 per person and a set three-course lunch £110.
Dishes include quail tortellini with black truffle, chalk stream trout with nashi pear and daikon, and aged turbot with beans and farofa.
