These 10 restaurants in London hotels have won Michelin stars, adding a ready customer base for chefs and prestige for the hotel itself.
With the Michelin Guide announcing its new award for hotels, the Michelin key, it’s time to pose the question – what makes an ideal hotel experience? Impeccable service, great amenities and a relaxing atmosphere are all must-haves, but while some hotels regard food as a second thought, with basic continental breakfasts and hotel-room coffee, others are striving to use food and dining to attract visitors beyond the bookings.
A hotel restaurant can introduce London’s ever-evolving and diverse food scene to guests in the comfort of their temporary home. If it can successfully capture its city’s culture through quality cuisine, then it’s connected even deeper with its guests while they take advantage of all the property offers.
And if a hotel and its restaurant entices guests to stick around longer, then it’s done its job. These hotels and their accompanying Michelin-starred restaurants have properly nailed this task.
A fine-dining staple, the Ritz London opened in 1906 in Picadilly, but it wasn’t until 2017 that its restaurant gained its first Michelin star under its current chef, John Williams. Ceiling-to-floor windows, gold chandeliers and pink marble can be found in the famous Ritz dining room, with an outdoor terrace overlooking Green Park. But it’s the fine French cuisine and quality British ingredients that continue to make the Ritz restaurant the epitome of luxury dining. Find Devon crab paired with crème fraîche and Imperial caviar, hay-aged duck with apricot and lavender and the iconic beef wellington with hen of the wood mushrooms and Périgord truffle.
Address: 150 Picadilly, London W1J 9BR
Eighty bedrooms, five bars and an entire floor of event spaces make up the luxurious and contemporary South Place hotel near Liverpool Street station, and on the top floor is Angler, a Michelin-starred restaurant dedicated to showcasing the crème de la crème of British seafood by executive chef Gary Foulkes. Pescatarians can select from Cornish seabass and monkfish, Jersey oysters, Newlyn cod, Devon crab and more from the à la carte menu, along with carnivorous options such as stuffed, glazed chicken wings and duck, and signature cocktails to pair. Angler’s outdoor dining spaces are just as grand with clear views of the city and a semi-private chef’s table with a window peering into Angler’s kitchen.
Address: South Place hotel, 3 South Place, London EC2M 2AF
In central London, the Sofitel hotel in St James combines French design with bold artwork to create a modern hotel with 10 spacious rooms – each with its designated colour – and spa by Su-Man, who’s treated celebrity clients like Juliette Binoche. Chef Anthony Demetre leads the hotel’s Michelin-starred restaurant, Wild Honey St James, where guests dine à la carte for lunch, or choose from a variety of dishes for a flavourful English- and French-inspired three-course dinner.
Choose courses like chicken, pork and duck terrine ‘en croute’ with spiced relish, hand-rolled ricotta dumplings with gnudi, Japanese artichoke and black winter truffles or Cornish wild seabass with Moro blood orange, Belgium Witloof chicory and parsley. Wild Honey also offers a pre-theatre menu for those venturing to the West End, and an early supper option from 5pm-6:30pm.
Address: 8 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5NG
At the Town Hall hotel in Shoreditch, a 1910 Edwardian property and wedding venue with renovated rooms and suites, chef Rafael Cagaili runs the two Michelin-starred restaurant on the ground floor, Da Terra. Inspired by his Brazilian and Italian background, Cagali opened the restaurant in 2019 and won his first Michelin star after just eight months, and his second in 2021. In this three-hour dining experience, Da Terra’s chefs offer a blind tasting menu on arrival and personally serve the dishes, explaining each one.
The menu offers everything from Carabinero prawns, with datterini, palm heart and tomato vodka, to Hereford short rib with casava, artichoke and chimichurri. For dessert? The Brazilian classic, Romeo y Juliette, soft cheese with sweet guava.
Address: 8 Patriot Square, London E2 9NF
Apart from the Peninsula London’s 190 rooms and suites, its spa and wellness center, swimming pool and floor-to-ceiling views of Hyde Park Corner and Wellington Arch, it also has Brooklands – a two-Michelin-starred rooftop restaurant serving modern British cuisine by chef director Claude Bosi and chef de cuisine Francesco Dibenedetto.
Named after the Brooklands racetrack in Surrey, the birthplace of British racing and flight innovation, Brooklands at the Peninsula is decorated with iconic memorabilia of the racetrack’s history. A scale model of the Concorde aircraft hangs above the main dining room under which guests feast on dishes such as Devonshire monkfish with smoked eel and red pepper miso, Lake District lamb with mint and pastrami or even the restaurant’s full vegetarian tasting menu.
The restaurant also holds two private dining rooms, an open terrace with views of the city skyline and a vintage Napier Railton, the 1933 race car that set Brooklands’ current speed record.
Address: 1 Grosvenor Place, 8th Floor, London, SW1X 7HJ
Inside London’s Four Seasons hotel in Trinity Square, with a wedding venue, vitality pool and a Forbes five-star spa, its ground floor restaurant, La Dame de Pic, boasts two Michelin stars and four AA rosettes. Chef Anne-Sophie Pic showcases French cuisine with fine British ingredients within a bright contemporary dining space decorated with mirrors, warm lighting and spacious leather booths. Scottish crab, Yorkshire rhubarb, St Cera cheese – as well as a cheese platter from Neal’s Yard – are all on the menu, with different levels of tasting menus available, as well as a 12-person dining table for private events.
Address: 10 Trinity Square, London EC3N 4AJ
The Connaught hotel in Mayfair has been a staple of London’s hospitality history since 1815. The art- and design-led luxury property offers anything from spacious single rooms to an entire apartment with two kingsize beds, two terraces overlooking the city and 24-hour butler service. Then, there’s Hélène Darroze. With three Michelin stars, the self-named restaurant concentrates on seasonal produce sourced personally by chef Darroze. Guests can select from a five- or seven-course menu that highlights simple yet fine ingredients, such as French onions served with lomo iberico, fumaison cheese, sourdough bread and lemon thyme.
Address: Carlos Place, London W1K 2AL
Voted London's best hotel by the Condé Nast Traveller's Readers' Choice Awards, the Dorchester in London identifies as “undeniably British”, with a history that dates back to 1792. It served as the American Embassy, a hospital during World War I and as accommodation for Dwight Eisenhower while he planned the invasion of Normandy in World War II. In 1931, Sir Robert McAlpine designed the building that stands today, with 153 rooms, 67 suites, a wellness spa and fitness centre, 10 meeting and event spaces, three bars and four restaurants, one of them being Alain Ducasse.
Holding three Michelin stars and run by Ducasse’s prodigy, chef patron Jean-Philippe Blondet, Alain Ducasse indulges each guest with the best ingredient available for haute French cuisine. Hand-dived scallops, native lobster, Cornish turbot and saddle venison from Rhugg Estate are all on the tasting menu, with the option of adding black truffle or caviar to any dish. The restaurant’s Table Lumière allows diners to indulge in a private setting, with a glimmering wall of silver streamers that blocks the view from the rest of the space, while still enjoying the lively atmosphere.
Address: 53 Park Lane, London W1K 1QA
After winning Michelin stars for his restaurants across the globe, Yannick Alléno opened his debut London restaurant Pavyllon, set within Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane. It was the first in the hotel chain to be opened outside of Canada in 1970, situated close to London’s prime shopping streets and the greenery of Hyde Park.
The chef is known for modernising the foundations of French cuisine, which he has continued in London with a British expression. The restaurant was awarded a star just six months after opening and was praised by Michelin for its “excitingly original dishes masterfully executed by head chef Benjamin Ferra Y Castell, with cooking that enhances the excellent natural flavours of the ingredients.”
Address: Hamilton Place, Park Lane, London W1J 7DR
One of the oldest family-owned hotels in London, Flemings Mayfair opened in 1851 and was originally converted from 13 Georgian townhouses. Part of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, the award-winning hotel is located near Green Park and a short walk from Buckingham Palace. Ormer Mayfair by Sofian is the hotel’s fine dining restaurant serving seasonal British produce with Sofian Msetfi at the helm.
Since being appointed executive chef in 2021, Msetfi has adopted a tasting menu-only approach, championing refined and elegant dining. His menus reflect his Michelin-starred training (Adare Manor, the Hand & Flowers, Midsummer House), and passion for British ingredients.
Address: 39 Clarges Street, Mayfair, London W1J 7BH