London Dining Guide: Chef Gizzi Erskine Shares Her Top Capital Restaurant Picks

Well-known London chef and food writer Gizzi Erskine has shared her top restaurant recommendations across the British capital, highlighting key dining spots favoured by industry professionals and food lovers alike.

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Top Dining Recommendations

• The Ritz (150 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London, W1J 9BR): Located in Mayfair, this establishment is praised for chef John Williams, who blends French techniques with British values. Highlights include traditional guéridon service, flambéing, and pressed duck.

• Otto's (182 Gray's Inn Road, King's Cross, London, WC1X 8EW): Situated in King's Cross, this French restaurant offers an opulent, theatrical, and chaotic dining experience. Menu items include foie gras, truffles, buckets of caviar, and ducks sourced from La Tour D'Argent in Paris.

• St. John (26 St. John Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1M 4AY): Found in Clerkenwell, this venue is noted for its focus on offal and traditional British cooking by Fergus Henderson, featuring dishes such as roasted bone marrow and parsley salad.

• Town (26-29 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, WC2B 5RL): Located in Covent Garden and opened by Stevie Parle, this restaurant features 1970s Vernor Panton style space-age glossy interiors. The menu offers wood-roasted cuts of meat, gilda variations, potato bread served with gravy and dripping, pork chops, and saffron rice with bone marrow.