London restaurants best for... English food

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goringnew
Westminster, Strand, Victoria

Beeston Place, London SW1W 0JW

The Goring has been a London institution for over 100 years. It's around the corner from Buckingham Palace and the Queen had been known to pop in from time to time, and if you're lucky you might still see a royal or two. Here you'll find high-end Michelin-starred dining. Don't miss out on the eggs drumkilbo - they were a favourite of the Queen Mother.

Rabbit
Chelsea, Kensington, Knightsbridge

172 Kings Road, London,SW3 4UP

If you could bottle the English countryside and transport it to the streets of Chelsea then you'd have Rabbit. From the Gladwin Brothers, this restaurant uses produce from their family's Sussex estate in a celebration of British seasonal produce.

Rules
Soho, Fitzrovia, Covent Garden

35 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7LB

One of London's oldest restaurants, there has been a Rules serving food in and around this part of Covent Garden since 1798. Here is where you come if you're after history and classic British dishes, served well. The upstairs cocktail bar is legendary.

The Jugged Hare
The City

49 Chiswell Street, London, EC1Y 4SA

Just up the road from the Martin Bros' Chiswell Street Dining Room is another Martin gastropub, and this time the theme is a British pub with a "real wine and food focus" and an open kitchen with rotiserrie and charcoal grilled food on offer. As with the Dining Room, it's also attached to the old Whitbread brewery, opened as a luxury hotel from Montcalm.

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Soho, Fitzrovia, Covent Garden

252 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EN

The rise of Holborn Dining Room's fortunes is mainly down to the work of their former head chef, Calum Franklin, who made their pies some of the best in London (and also created the Pie Room). Now in charge is chef Liam Fauchard-Newman and while the whole menu deserves praise, you really need to aim for anything pie-related on the menu (there's always a special pie section).

Plum and Spilt Milk
North London

King's Cross , London N1C 4TB

The restored King's Cross hotel features a 90-cover restaurant, Plum + Spilt Milk which has views over the King’s Cross piazza, and St Pancras International. The dining room features 17, three-metre floor to ceiling sash windows and 120 hand blown pendant lights. The all day dining menu starts with breakfast and brunch through to dinner. The menu will soon have dishes from Mark Sargeant who is taking over the food for the hotel from May.

storynew
South Bank, London Bridge, Bermondsey

201 Tooley Street, London SE1 2UE

Tom Sellers previously worked with the likes of Rene Redzepi at Noma, Adam Byatt and Thomas Keller before making his own name with the Michelin-starred Restaurant Story. It's led by a tasting menu that changes by the seasons while still keeping in a few signatures, like his beef dripping candle. After a major refurb, an entire new floor was added to the building adding a chef's table with an impressive view and terrace.

Outlaw's at the Capital
Chelsea, Kensington, Knightsbridge

The Capital Hotel, 22-24 Basil St, Knightsbridge, London SW3 1AT

Two Michelin starred Nathan Outlaw has opened this restaurant in the revamped Capital dining room. Expect dishes like Cornish crab on toast and roast brill on the bone, all created by head chef Peter Biggs who has worked with Outlaw for ten years.

The Northall
Westminster, Strand, Victoria

10a Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5AE