The City of London

For the best place to lunch with a client, go with your team for a post-work hangout or for a weekend blowout the City has it all. Here's our pick of the best restaurants and bars in the City of London.

Cloth Cornhill sees the team behind the original Cloth taking over an historic City building which was once Simpson's Tavern. We went down to see just what they've done with the place (and the menu). 

Updated 7/10/26 with full details on the restaurants

It's all change in Fleet Street, where one of the area's best-known buildings, which used to house The Telegraph, is being transformed into a modern mix of offices and restaurants. The Telegraph Building, which is now being called Daniel House, was built in the 1880s but given a very Art Deco makeover in the 1920s. 

Back to restaurants, the reason we're telling you about this at all is that the owner, Regis Group, has gone into partnership with the Emerald Hospitality Group to run the three restaurants

A huge new pub has opened in the City and it just happens to be from the same people behind Goodman and Wild. We went to take a closer look at The Albatross and put their seafood menu to the test. 

19/8/26 - Updated with the opening date

Back at the beginning of 2025, we brought you news that Big Mamma were getting ready to open in the City. Since then, they've opened Barbarella in Canary Wharf, but now we're finally getting news about what their City plans are going to be. 

The next Big Mamma restaurant will be called Edmondo, a restaurant that's set to be inspired by, in their words, "1930s Milanese glamour". There is already an Edmondo by Big Mamma in Hamburg, but they have said that the London restaurant will only share the name and be a very

A new restaurant has arrived in the City, opening somewhat under the radar late last month. Bulbul hasn't opened out of nowhere, though, as the names behind it are a fairly big deal in India.

Rohan Dsouza and Twinkle Keswani are behind a number of restaurants across India, like Pisco by the Beach in Goa, while Dsouza originally started as a chef in London working with Marco Pierre White. They've taken over what was apparently an old printing press in Blackfriars and converted it into a high-end restaurant with a focus on regional Indian cuisine. To that mind, the

For a while now, we've known that the Wild Group have been planning a pub in the City. But they're only now ready to reveal the details. If you know where Wild Izakaya is on Old Jewry, they've taken over the former Browns site. And we haven't been this excited about a new pub opening in London since The Devonshire. Why? Well, once you know who's behind it, you'll get the gist.

First up is the restaurant group's back catalogue. George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev are behind

18/8/26 - Updated with full details and the opening date

Back at the end of 2025, we reported that the restaurant that was once Simpson's Tavern (which had been going through a fight for survival) had been taken over. The team who are taking on the Grade II listed site is the one behind Cloth in Farrington (also in an 18th-century building). They planned to launch Cloth Cornhill.

After that, things went a little quiet, but now, almost a

It's all change (as far as the name goes) for Fogo de Chão, which used to be Fazenda. What hasn't changed is the fantastic parade of Brazilian grilled meats and seafood dishes. 

We've been hearing rumours for quite some time that one of the City's best-known restaurants, Coq d'Argent, wasn't going to be at its current rooftop perch for much longer. Now we have confirmation not only that they're closing their No 1 Poultry site, but also that they have a new, even more glamorous, rooftop space to move to.

The French restaurant was opened by Sir Terence Conran in its current Bank address almost 30 years ago. And with its gardens overlooking the Bank of England, it's been one of London's best-known rooftop restaurants over the years. But things change, and

The City has a very comfortable new steakhouse and grill to try in Fitzgerald's - and there's a handy Irish American bar right next door.

A new City brunch offering at the Pan Pacific London is all about getting the perfect Bloody Mary while enjoying an all-you-can-eat buffet.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of Chuku's, who started serving up "Nigerian tapas" as a series of pop-ups before settling down in their Tottenham restaurant, which has been going strong ever since. Now, the brother and sister team of Ifeyinwa and Emeka Frederick are back on the pop-up scene too, as they've arrived at Boxhall for Chuku's Chop Shop.

They'll be the latest team to take over Kitchen No. 8, the rotating residency kitchen that keeps things fresh at the City's indoor Boxpark cousin. It'll be a little different to the Tottenham restaurant, however, being more

4/5/26 - updated with full details and a look at the new restaurant

If you watched the Being Gordon Ramsay documentary on Netflix, you'll know that one of the key storylines has revolved around the chef's multiple openings in the 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper in the City. In the opening episode (spoiler), you see his dismay to hear that of the various restaurants planned, Bread Street Kitchen on the 59th floor, is going to be delayed by months. Given that the rest of the operation opened back in February last year, the opening ended up being delayed a full 15 months in

They already own two dim sum restaurants in Wimbledon and Ealing as well as Tao Tao Ju in Chinatown, but now the folks behind the Good Fortune Club are coming into the centre of town with a hot new prospect.

Banquet 88 is being described as "a premium Cantonese dining experience". What that means is that it'll be just as good a spot to host business clients as to have one of those epic family dim sum lunches on the weekend. Think big tables, big menus, and a whole load of dim sum to choose from.

They're promising Cantonese classics like whole Peking duck, roast suckling