Marylebone has thrived as a restaurant destination over recent years with some excellent recent additions including Lita and Kol.
Read our guide to the best restaurants in Marylebone.
Lita
Ex-Corrigan’s chef Luke Ahearne is at the helm at Lita, a fabulous open fire restaurant in Marylebone.
The vibe is cool, casual glamour with an excellent menu that has a focus on southern European/Mediterranean dishes – favourites include smoked Basque sardines, chopped Hereford beef with shoestring fries, whole Cornish trout and rib of Galician beef.
KOL
Santiago Lastra’s Michelin-starred Kol mixes Mexican cooking with ingredients sourced in the UK to create a more elevated approach to Mexican food than available elsewhere in London.
Reservations are hard to get, but Kol also has a Mezcalareia bar downstairs that is also worth a visit.
Mayha
Mayha, which opened on Chiltern Street in Marylebone in January 2023, is a modern omakase restaurant which combines the traditions of this rarefied Japanese style of dining with the contemporary design ethos and from-the-heart hospitality of Beirut’s renowned Nothing But Love Group.
Trishna
TrishnaTrishna specialises in the coastal cuisine of south-west India and has held a Michelin Star since 2012. The cooking here is highly accomplished and vibrant, and the tasting menus provide a good all-round experience.
The neighbourhood restaurant offers seating for up to 80 guests and is available for lunch, dinner, private dining or exclusive hire.
Chiltern Firehouse
Chiltern Firehouse has been one of London’s hottest restaurants in quite some time.
On display in the open kitchen is a brigade of chefs offering a relaxed but vibrant international menu with American flourishes.
You can choose to sit on the counter in front of the kitchen, in the main dining room that is divided into little sections, or you may wish to sit on the corner table and straddle the fireman’s pole.
The dining room is cool and stylish and the service is slick, but more importantly, dinner here is excellent fun and you will want to linger long into the night.
Note: due to a fire, Chiltern Firehouse is closed until further notice
The Italian Greyhound
A relaxed but sleek restaurant serving beautiful Italian food.
Lurra
Lurra is the sister restaurant to successful Basque restaurant, Donostia. Meaning “land” in Basque, the menu at Lurra is focused on dishes from the traditional charcoal and wood grills ‘Erretegias’.
There is a selection of whole fish grilled in fish baskets and kokotxas (cod tongues) cooked three ways, Basque Vaca Vieja and Galician Rubia Gallega rib eye steaks and plenty of vegetable dishes such as Ceps with egg yolk and red peppers chargrilled over hot coals.
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Fischer’s
From the family of some of our favourite restaurants (The Wolseley, The Delaunay, Brasserie Zedel) comes Fischer’s in Marylebone with a menu of Viennese café classics designed to be ‘warmly evocative of Vienna in the early years of the twentieth century’.
The menu includes an extensive choice of cured fish, salads, schnitzels, sausages, brötchen and sandwiches, strudels, biscuits, ice-cream coupes, hot chocolates and coffees with traditional tortes mit schlag.
Nina
Nina opened on the old Pachamama site in Marylebone – a new concept from the same team.
Nina is a cool Mediterranean restaurant with a warren of rooms around a glamorous central bar space.
The food is a mix of small and medium Mediterranean dishes like anchovy bruschetta, bluefin tuna e melone, a range of classic pasta dishes and chicken Milanese.
110 des Taillevents
Les 110 de Taillevents London is the sister restaurant of the two-Michelin starred Parisian restaurant, Le Taillevent.
Featuring 110 wines by the glass, paired with contemporary and seasonal French dishes, guests experience the spirit of Le Taillevent Paris in a relaxed, bistrot-style setting on Cavendish Square.
Josephine Bistrot Marylebone
The second Josephine Bistrot from Claude and Lucy Bosi has opened in Marylbone, adding to the original Chelsea location.
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Josphine Marylebone is very much modelled on Parisian brasseries, which they have captured perfectly with the design.
The menu is full of classic French food – Steak tartare, Soupe à l’oignon, Fillet de boeuf au poivre, Terrine de campagne for example.
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