While we would always recommend booking restaurants in advance to secure the best tables, but if you have to queue, make sure the restaurant is worth the wait! Read on for our guide to The Best No Booking Restaurants in London.
Morito – Exmouth Market
The owners of Moro, the acclaimed Spanish restaurant on Clerkenwell’s Exmouth Market, have opened a small tapas bar, Morito, right next door to their main restaurant.
This is one of our favourite tapas bars in London and definitely worth a visit. Reserved for walk-ins only, this is one of the best no booking restaurants in London
Blacklock, Soho
Specialising in Chops and only chops, this is a Soho favourite.
Order the “all-in” that gives you a mix of lamb, pork and beef chops served on a char grilled flat bread that soaks up all the juices – beautiful!
Opera Tavern – Covent Garden
The most recent restaurant from the team behind Salt Yard and Dehesa, Opera Tavern in Covent Garden saves its downstairs tables and counter seats for walk-ins.
Located in a renovated pub, the Spanish restaurant and tapas bar retains some of the building’s original features, and the exposed bricks and low lighting create a relaxed, intimate feel.
You might also enjoy our guide to the best Covent Garden restaurants.
Burger & Lobster – Mayfair, Soho and Clerkenwell
From the people behind the Goodman steak restaurants, Burger & Lobster serves, you guessed it, burgers and lobsters, each priced at £20.
The original site in Mayfair has recently been joined by a sibling on Dean Street in Soho with a new site in Clerkenwell on St John Street due later this year, all designed by designLSM.
Brasserie Zedel – Piccadilly Circus
Hot on the heels of The Delaunay, Chris Corbin and Jeremy King launched Brasserie Zedel in Soho as a large, bustling Parisian brasserie transported to the heart of London.
While the room is grand and impressive (designed by David Collins Studio), the food is more casual and very reasonably priced – just as a brasserie should be.
The dining room is vast and has over 200 covers, half of which are reserved for walk-ins. The size of the room makes it one of London’s most accessible no bookings restaurants.
Koya Ko
Koya Ko is inspired by the fast-paced dining of the train station noodle bars found in Japan.
It is the more casual ‘little sister’ to Koya’s existing restaurants in Soho and the City. It offers a menu designed with takeaway in mind and an intimate, no reservations udon bar to east London.
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