London Restaurants - Marylebone

Originally launched by Xavier Rousset and Agnar Sverrisson (who are also behind Texture), this is a "wine workshop and kitchen" on Marylebone Lane. Once part of a group, it's now a solo wine bar with European food in Marylebone.

With just 36 covers, this compact and bijoux restaurant is the brainchild of Baltic chef and restaurateur Andrei Lesment with a menu to featuring hop shoots, beer, spatzle and plenty of beetroot.

They expanded from a pop-up, roaming outlet to become one of the biggest burger restaurants in London. Their first restaurant was in W1 and has now been replaced with this even bigger venue. There are burgers, hot dogs, lethal cocktails and - most useful - a very late licence.

This sees Michel Roux Jr in charge of the main restaurant at The Langham hotel in Marylebone. It's a more formal affair compared to his gastropub The Wigmore next door. There's also an excellent, world-class bar in the hotel, courtesy of Artesian.

This wine-focused laid back eaterie has been a huge success since it opened in Farringdon. The sister restaurant has 60 covers and a wine store alongside so you can buy what you've tried. There's 25 wines by the glass and a 285 bottle list.

Opening on the site of the former Eat and Two Veg, this modern European brasserie is the first London opening for popular Belgian restaurateurs Julie and Luc Van Oostende who currently run Cafe Theatre in Ghent.

There's a warm glow at Il Baretto, but is it just from the fabulous wood-fired oven? New owner Arjun Waney (Roka, Zuma, La Petite Maison) has done his best with a tricky floor layout and the introduction of an Enomatic machine does justice to an above-average wine list.

Have the owners of this gastro-pub made the classic mistake of spending all their time and effort on the decor rather than the food? While most of the critics found the whimsical interior design a delight, the same couldn't be said for the food or the menu.

It seems as if every new London restaurant has to have a 'philosophy' and Indali rises to that challenge with its stated aim of being London's first cream, butter and ghee-free Indian restaurant. The Indali lounge is owned by Dr Kartar Lalvani - the multimillionaire businessman behind vitamin giant Vitabiotics - who wants his first restaurant to be the healthiest curry house in the city.

Giorgio Locatelli's Marylebone restaurant is still one of the best and most highly rated Italian restaurants in town. It's very much a high-end special occasion type of place (but if you can afford to eat here regularly - go for it). Old school Italian dining done to perfection.

Modern European cooking from head chef Andy McFadden ...