Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in London Marylebone
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Marylebone restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 114 restaurants in Marylebone and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Marylebone restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. 108 Brasserie
British, Modern restaurant in Marylebone
108 Marylebone Lane - W1
This “well-run spot” with outdoor seating attached to a hotel on Marylebone Lane makes a “very useful venue for lunch when in the vicinity”, with an offering that “seems to have something for everyone”. “It’s nothing exceptional in one sense, but a menu of properly prepared classics is the sort of thing that sounds easy but needs to be done well… and it is”.
2. Les 110 de Taillevent
French restaurant in Marylebone
16 Cavendish Square - W1
“If you love wine… heaven!” – a “huge list (almost 2,000 bins)”, “some with no mark-up from merchant prices” and including 110 available by the glass (hence the name), is the big attraction at this plush Cavendish Square venue from a famous Parisian operation. It “finally seems to have found its footing as a real restaurant, not just somewhere that serves food as an afterthought to the wine list – there’s some very good cooking here”.
3. Clarette
French restaurant in Marylebone
44 Blandford St - W1U
“The wine list is pricey, even by Marylebone High Street standards” at this Tudorbethan pub, with leaded windows and inset stained glass. That’s to be expected, as it’s backed by Alexandra Petit-Mentzelopoulos – part of the family who own the legendary Château Margaux – and you really have to be a lover of wine (some famous names are available by the glass using the Coravin system) to get the most out of the place, which has extensive listings – amongst other areas – of bottlings from Bordeaux and Burgundy: for example, there is a ‘Château Margaux Experience’: a ‘degustation’ of 50ml glass of 4 vintages for £95. Viewed purely as a place to get fed? “We liked it, the food is lovely, but there are options offering better value”.
4. Colony Grill Room, Beaumont Hotel
American restaurant in Mayfair
8 Balderton Street, Brown Hart Gardens - W1K
With its colourful murals, dark-wood features and plush leather seating, the “lovely” dining room of this Art Deco hotel near Selfridges faithfully recreates a rather Manhattan-esque style. The menu is likewise praised by some reporters for its “superb American fare” (although its mix of grills with caviar, oysters and more generic locally sourced dishes – such as Dover sole – equally fit the image of typical British clubland venues). No longer run by Corbin & King as once it was, it is “still consistent but now quite expensive”.
5. Cavita
Mexican restaurant in Marylebone
56-60 Wigmore Street - W1U
“Confidently spiced, really excellent Mexican dishes” washed down with “brilliant cocktails” have won high acclaim from aficionados of Latino cuisine for Adriana Cavita’s lively Fitzrovia yearling, which – according to the FT’s Tim Hayward – “redefines the city’s Mexican food scene”. Not all our reporters are quite as sure though, a typical report being: “pretty good, but it needed something more to give it the wow factor”. It doesn’t help that the menu can strike first-timers as “incomprehensible”; and on some occasions staff can be “inarticulate” in explaining it.
6. Lazeez Lebanese Tapas
Lebanese restaurant in Westminster
29 Duke Street - W1U
Here at Lazeez Tapas we bring a sharing culture akin to that in Lebanon, serving up contemporary Lebanese cuisine with a Mediterranean twist in a great central London location right next to Selfridges department store in Oxford Street.We use the freshest of ingredients ...
7. Caffè Caldesi
Italian restaurant in Marylebone
118 Marylebone Ln - W1
“Very good Italian family food is served in a buzzy atmosphere” at chef Giancarlo Caldesi and his wife Katie’s Marylebone flagship – “all the classic dishes are available”, accompanied by an “interesting wine list”. The couple also have a country restaurant in Bray and a cookery school, while Tuscany-born Giancarlo has written a healthy cookbook following his diagnosis as a diabetic.
8. Le Relais de Venise L’Entrecôte
Steaks & grills restaurant in Marylebone
120 Marylebone Ln - W1
“So long as you don’t mind queuing and the fact that there’s just one item on the menu” – “entrecôte, salad, secret sauce and sublime frites” – this Gallic duo in Marylebone and the City can offer “a wonderful evening of no-frills dining”, and it’s an “obsession” to more ardent fans . “The only pressing question is ‘house red or Bordeaux’” – while the “hugger-mugger seating and bustle is all part of the charm”. The original Paris branch opened 60 years ago in a bankrupt Italian restaurant – hence the name.
9. Golden Hind
Fish & chips restaurant in Marylebone
73 Marylebone Ln - W1
“Going strong” since 1914, this Marylebone veteran is one of the oldest in central London, serving “reliable and authentic fish ’n’ chips in a part of town where no-nonsense dining is not so easy to find”. Unusually for a chippy there’s “outdoor seating in warmer months”, and when it’s cold you can finish your meal with a traditional sponge pudding.
10. The Ivy Café
British, Modern restaurant in Marylebone
96 Marylebone Ln - W1
“Trading on a once-great name but disappointing in every category (except perhaps breakfasts)” – this brasserie brand themed around the Theatreland classic feels “very ‘chain restaurant’ now”. Some reporters do suggest their “comfort food staples” and “buzzy interiors” make them useful destinations, but too many suggest they are “haphazard” and “not a place to return to”.
11. Taka Marylebone
Japanese restaurant in Marylebone
109 Marylebone High Street - W1U
An “upscale Japanese/fusion place” – “a modern take on Nipponese cuisine in a light and airy venue in the heart of Marylebone High Street”. It scores higher this year: even those who consider it “overpriced” still say the culinary results are “very good”.
12. Ottolenghi
Mediterranean restaurant in Marylebone
63 Marylebone Lane - W1U
“Stunning salads, amazing pastries” and a “lovely variety of interesting prepared dishes” have stood the test of time at Yotam Ottolenghi’s “vibrant” deli-cafés – still hugely popular 22 years on from the launch of the first in Notting HIll. The Israeli-born chef and writer has had an enormous influence on the way people shop, eat and cook, helping to create a whole category of modern Middle Eastern cookery and “totally living up to his reputation as a leading expert in vegetarian cuisine” – even though his premises serve meat and fish. An occasional quibble – “the prices? Too high for a few stalks of broccoli even taking into account the undoubtedly skills of the Chef!”
13. Tommi's Burger Joint
Burgers, etc restaurant in Marylebone
30 Thayer St - W1
“Well priced, tasty” burgers make this long-running Icelandic chain (with two outlets in London and one in Oxford; as well as Berlin and Copenhagen) a “cheap ’n’ cheerful favourite” for some reporters. Veteran burger-slinger Tómas Tómasson founded the group 43 years ago, and in 2021 was elected to Iceland’s parliament, the Althing, at the age of 72.
14. Daylesford Organic
Sandwiches, cakes, etc restaurant in Marylebone
6-8 Blandford Street - W1
Lady Bamford’s quartet of London ‘rus in urbe’ cafés should have caught the zeitgeist, with their focus on home-produced organic ingredients from her estate. But the offering is variable, with food that’s too often slated as “poor”; or incidents of “staff hanging around not knowing what to do”. The Pimlico branch scores the best of the bunch, but it’s worthy of note that visitors to the Daylesford farm mothership in the Cotswolds report an altogether different and “delightful” experience.
15. Blandford Comptoir
Mediterranean restaurant in Marylebone
1 Blandford Street - W1
Sommelier Xavier Rousset is behind this “wonderful and quiet little restaurant” and wine bar in Marylebone, “serving delicious, serious food” – mostly inspired by Italy – and “an outstanding Rhône-specialist wine list”. Service is notably “friendly, with a relaxed vibe”.
16. La Fromagerie Café
International restaurant in Marylebone
2-6 Moxon St - W1
“Simple food done well...and the cheese!!” – this small group has basic eateries attached to their stores as well as “an enormous selection of cheese to buy at retail”. WC1 is by far the most popular outlet – “like wandering into a village restaurant in the heart of Bloomsbury”. “If you like cheese and wine, what’s not to love about this place?”
17. Fishworks Marylebone
Fish & seafood restaurant in Marylebone
89 Marylebone High St - W1
The “super-fresh fish” – “simply prepared” and “never overcooked” – “never disappoints” at this “good value” trio of West End seafood brasseries, in Covent Garden, Marylebone and Swallow Street, off Piccadilly.
18. Trishna
Indian restaurant in Marylebone
15-17 Blandford St - W1
“Wonderfully scented dishes” are “delicately and expertly prepared” at JKS Restaurants’ exceptional Marylebone flagship, just off the high street, which fans claim “surpasses the Indian original” in Mumbai (which inspired it). But while its culinary performance impressively lives up to its reputation, perceptions of its “oddly shaped and slightly claustrophobic” premises are deteriorating. Top Menu Tip – “definitely get the Duck Keema Naan if it’s on the menu”.
19. Pachamama
Peruvian restaurant in Marylebone
18 Thayer Street - W1
“A super choice to explore Peruvian cuisine with a wide variety of dishes available on their tapas-style menu” (ceviche, croquetas, churros…) – these noisy and atmospheric, cocktail-fueled operations in Marylebone and Shoreditch make for a fun night out: “a great evening was had by all!”
20. CoCoRo
Japanese restaurant in
31 Marylebone Lane - W1
They look modest, but “great value Japanese food” (for example, “delightful sushi” and “very fresh salmon and tuna”) of “consistently high quality” is served by “lovely people” at this well-established Marylebone restaurant and its more deli-style offshoots in Highgate, Bloomsbury and Bayswater.
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