LOTI Eats
Discover new places to eat out with our London restaurant reviews. London is overflowing with great restaurants. Where do you start? We’re asked daily about which new restaurants have opened, which ones are worth seeking out and what’s not living up to the hype.
From the hustle of Shoreditch to the back streets of our local ‘hood, we scour the city so we can tell you what impresses us (so you can impress your mates). It could be a new street food craze, the next hottest vegan place, a swish Michelin-starred restaurant or a tiny little pop-up without a tablecloth in sight. We’ve got high-end places for those baller occasions, along with the bank-balance-friendly cheap eats.
We’re fair on what we tell you, though we only write London restaurant reviews on what we can truly recommend. Why waste your time telling you something you shouldn’t experience when we can tell you something you most definitely should? We’ve rated our reviews too, from three to five stars, depending on how much we love them to help you prioritise your own all-important hit list. Don’t forget to check out our curated maps of where to find the best burgers, brunch, and loads more all across town too.
So what actually makes a good restaurant? For us, it’s four things. The food itself obviously. Secondly the service – we expect it to be on point. Interiors count for a lot too. Everyone likes an aesthetically pleasing place but we do appreciate that not everyone has a design studio on the books, and sometimes a hole in the wall is fine too. Then there is the atmosphere, the gentle chitter chatter, the sound of laughter, of people having a good time.
Long story short, if you’re looking for London restaurant reviews, for any occasion imaginable – we can help with that.
LOTI EATS | KURO EATERY
Notting Hill’s Kuro only opened in 2021 but it quickly gained a rep as one of the best coffee shops in town, and the team…
Read moreLOTI EATS | MARESCO
He already runs Bar Esteban in Crouch End and Escocesa in Stoke Newington, and now Stephen Lironi has opened his third spot, Maresco in Soho.…
Read moreLOTI EATS | DORIAN
Dorian is a lovely new bistro that recently opened in Notting Hill, headed by an A-Team that includes Chris D’Sylva of Notting Hill Fish +…
Read moreLOTI EATS | SCULLY
St James’ restaurant Scully has been around a fair few years now, having opened its doors in 2018. The restaurant, headed up by Ramael Scully,…
Read moreLOTI EATS | EKSTEDT AT THE YARD
If autumn was a restaurant, it would probably be Ekstedt at the Yard, Michelin-starred Niklas Ekstedt’s first outpost outside of Sweden, inside the five-star Great…
Read moreLOTI EATS | ELIS
Rafael Cagali already runs the two-star Da Terra in the Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal Green (which is one of our fave restaurants in town)…
Read moreLOTI EATS | BEHIND
Even if you’ve never been to Behind in London Fields before, you may well have heard of it – the restaurant made headlines back in…
Read moreLOTI EATS | LIMA
Ten years is a long time in the London restaurant game, so reaching that milestone is worthy of a celebration. Lima, a pioneering Peruvian restaurant…
Read moreLOTI EATS | RESTAURANT ST BARTS
St Barts is the new restaurant from the team behind Nest in Hackney and Fenn in Fulham. We’ve been huge fans of these guys ever since Nest…
Read moreLOTI EATS | “MU”
The team behind Brilliant Corners, Giant Steps, and Idle Moments have continued their tradition of venues named after jazz albums with their latest venue, which…
Read moreLOTI EATS | ERST
Obviously London is our first love but we’ve defo got a bit of a thing for Manchester and it seems we’re not the only ones…
Read moreLOTI EATS | MAMBOW
Down in Peckham you can find some of the best Malaysian food in London. Mambow, which originally started out in Spitalfields, has made the move…
Read moreLOTI EATS | KOYN
She’s already got Chinese restaurant MiMi Mei Fair and Indian spots Jamavar and Bombay Bustle to her name, and now Samyukta Nair has taken Japanese…
Read moreLOTI EATS | MILK BEACH SOHO
After doubling in size over in Queen’s Park in 2020, Aussie restaurant Milk Beach has expanded again, this time into Central with an outpost in…
Read moreLOTI EATS | THE PELICAN
The Pelican pub in west London joins the list of new “pubs” which are raising their food game – though it’s fair to debate whether…
Read moreLOTI EATS | ALEX DILLING AT HOTEL CAFE ROYAL
September brings a whole load of new restaurants to London and perhaps the Big New Opening of them all is Alex Dilling at Hotel Cafe…
Read moreLOTI EATS | AMETHYST
The absolute first thing to mention about Amethyst, a new restaurant in Mayfair, is the dining table. Yes we do mean dining table singular, as all the…
Read moreLOTI EATS | THE TENT (AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE)
You can probably tell just by the name of this place that it ain’t ya average restaurant. And we wouldn’t have expected anything less from…
Read moreLOTI EATS | THE BARING
If there’s one thing Islington isn’t lacking, it’s great boozers but there’s a new kid on the block and it’s already established itself as one…
Read moreLOTI EATS | CHOTTO MATTE MARYLEBONE
It’s been a big summer for Chotto Matte: not only is the refurb and relaunch of their original Soho site just around the corner, they…
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