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 (AT HOME) | MADAME PIGG
During lockdown we’ve had the obvious delivered (pizzas, burgers etc) and the not-so-obvious – a full on afternoon tea from The Dorchester, for example, and…
Read moreLOTI EATS (AT HOME) | JOSE PIZARRO
We’ve been checking out a few of the new DIY meal kits that London restaurants are offering and we’ve been pretty impressed so far. Some…
Read moreLOTI EATS | AVOBAR
We’re not going to lie, when we heard there was an avocado-themed restaurant in Covent Garden we couldn’t help but assume it would be gimmicky.…
Read moreLOTI EATS | DOMINIQUE ANSEL TREEHOUSE
He’s caused mad queues in New York and his Belgravia bakery is always busy thanks to crazy popular dishes like the banana paella, the chocolate…
Read moreLOTI EATS | ADAM HANDLING CHELSEA
With four restaurants and two bars to his name, not to mention overseeing the food at the Belmond Cadogan Hotel, Adam Handling has established quite…
Read moreLOTI EATS | GYMKHANA
After closing for several months in 2019 when a fire ripped through the building, Gymkhana finally reopened in February 2020. Widely considered to be one…
Read moreLOTI EATS | WILDER
Despite Albion and the Rooftop Bar & Grill always doing well, the basement space at Boundary in Shoreditch has been a tricky one to get…
Read moreLOTI EATS | THE NITERY
After Asia de Cuba closed this time last year, there’s been no permanent replacement for the restaurant inside St Martins Lane London. First St Martins…
Read moreLOTI EATS | FALLOW AT CRISPIN
Chefs Will Murray and Jack Croft, who worked together at Dinner by Heston, now run Fallow, a creative yet sustainable, nose-to-tail and root-to-stem restaurant concept.…
Read moreLOTI EATS | AQUA KYOTO
New year, new Aqua Kyoto. The Japanese sister to the Spanish Aqua Neuva (also in the same building) and the British Aqua Shard (over in…
Read moreLOTI EATS | MUSE BY TOM AIKENS
One of the best things about London is that you can live here all your life and still discover new things all the time. Case…
Read moreLOTI EATS | OKLAVA BAKERY + WINE
Selin Kiazim and Laura Christie closed their Anatolian restaurant Kyseri in Fitzrovia in late 2019 and flipped it into Oklava Bakery + Wine, which opened…
Read moreLOTI EATS | KITCHEN AT HOLMES
Round Baker Street way it’s hard to avoid references to the area’s most famous, if fictional, resident. The Holmes Hotel, and its in-house restaurant Kitchen…
Read moreLOTI EATS | LUCKY & JOY
Ellen Parr and Pete Kelly have been popping up across town for the past few years with Lucky & Joy and now the duo have…
Read moreLOTI EATS | AMPELI
Once Peru, now the Med, this spot on Charlotte Street has had quite the change in geography as Senor Ceviche has gone and Greek restaurant…
Read moreLOTI EATS | TOKII
Japanese restaurant Tokii is part of the Prince Akatoki, a newly opened five-star hotel which was formerly the Arch London. Like the food the decor is…
Read moreLOTI EATS | THE LAUNDRY
Melanie Brown, the woman behind The New Zealand Cellar in POP Brixton, has opened an all-day bistro and wine bar, The Laundry, just the other…
Read moreLOTI EATS | ARABICA KING’S CROSS
There’s been (and still is to be fair) a lot of development in King’s Cross recently, and one of the shiny new buildings just north…
Read moreLOTI EATS | 14 HILLS
14 Hills, on the 14th floor of 120 Fenchurch Street with Thomas Piat (previously of Bar Boulud) heading up the kitchen, opened at the end…
Read moreLOTI EATS | LYON’S
Seafood seems to have come back in fashion with a fair few openings towards the end of 2019 specialising in all things from the sea.…
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