Food & Drinks

Five Top Tables: The Best Restaurants in London Right Now

Highlighted spots include an affordable steak place with free second helpings and a new New York-style power dining room in Covent Garden.

Choose your preferred seafood tower at the new Twenty8 NoMad.

Photographer: Cristian Barnett/Twenty8

Welcome to Five Top Tables, a new column from Bloomberg Pursuits to guide your dining decisions in London and other finance capitals around the world.

Finding a good place to eat in London isn’t easy. Popular restaurants are invariably packed, and the easy tables at the nonjammed ones aren’t always worth it. Here then is our monthly guide offering five superb dining options in and around central London that speak to the array of questions we get asked all the time: What’s a great new restaurant? Where should I go to celebrate a deal or an anniversary? Where can I get in tonight? And, especially, what restaurants are excellent and also a good value?