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20 Michelin-Starred Restaurant Deals to Try in London

Set menus, lunchtime deals, and more

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Love them or loathe them, Michelin stars remain a shorthand for culinary excellence — and one that, more often that not, comes with a gasp-inducing price tag attached.

More and more star recipients, though, are offering eye-catching set menus and lunchtime deals: the list below accounts for nearly a third of London’s Michelin-starred restaurants. Ignore research that plucks imaginary prices out of thin air, and refer to this list: Each one represents extremely good value — an opportunity to experience some of London’s most elegant cooking and hospitality at a hefty discount. Booking, needless to say, is strongly advised.

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The Clove Club

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Unquestionably one of London’s essential dining experiences. The Clove Club’s tasting menu comes in at £145 a head, but its four-course lunch menu (which isn’t available on Saturdays) costs a relatively modest £65. While the produce represents the best of British, the inspiration is global: consider line-caught Cornish pollock pakoras, or cedrat lemon confit with ray wing. Waiting for a table? Order the legendary pine-salt buttermilk fried chicken at the bar.

Pine salt buttermilk fried chicken at Michelin-starred The Clove Club in Shoreditch, that forms part of the best 24 hour restaurant travel itinerary for London — where to eat with one day in the city P A Jorgensen/The Clove Club

A Michelin newcomer for 2019, Shoreditch bistro Leroy has one of the lowest-priced set menus on the list: three courses for just £22 at lunchtime from Tuesday to Saturday. What’s on offer changes daily, but it might include tomatoes and aioli on toast, sea urchin crêpe and a perfect quenelle of strawberry sorbet. Reliably lovely.

Michelin-Starred Shoreditch restaurant Leroy is scrapping the discretionary service charge when it reopens after the coronavirus lockdown Leroy/Official

Portland

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Michelin-starred since 2015, the Fitzrovia restaurant from the team behind Clipstone, Quality Chop House and Emilia is a bit of a steal at lunchtime, when a two-course menu comes in at £29.50 (or £35 for three). Start with potato gnocchi, goat’s curd, yellow courgettes and lardo di Colonnata, move on to pithivier of duck and pigeon, and end things with Pump Street chocolate sponge and burnt peach sorbet.

The Ninth

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Jun Tanaka’s one-starred French-Mediterranean restaurant does three plates for £33 at lunchtimes (trofie with courgette pesto, an impressive lamb merguez, mussels with mousseron, peas and sourdough), including a glass of wine (or £28 without).

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Roganic

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Simon Rogan’s Marylebone restaurant achieves that rare thing: a reasonably priced lunchtime menu (four courses for £35, from Tuesday to Saturday) with all the bells and whistles that come with the full-blown tasting menu. They’re still very much in evidence in a thoughtful procession of dishes like beetroot and eel, baby gem with truffle and shimeji, and Cornish cod with tomato and smoked roe.

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The Ledbury

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Chef Brett Graham’s venerable Notting Hill star-magnet — it has two — is never going to be one for a quick lunch pit-stop — but for a truly special occasion, it’s hard to beat. From Wednesday to Friday in the middle of the day, £80 translates to four outstanding courses: there might be datterini tomatoes, lobster, sorbet and seaweed, or red ruby beef, short rib, smoked marrow, pickled vegetables and dill.

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Endo at the Rotunda

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Third-generation sushi master Kazutoshi Endo’s 15-cover omakase sushi restaurant on the 8th floor of Television Centre, which gained a star this year, has a seven-course, £60 “Lunch Omakase” menu. As well as the chef’s choices, diners can order a selection of seasonal nigiri (semi-fatty tuna, perhaps, or Tokyo-style oyster) and hot dishes (Cornish monkfish tempura; homemade red mullet sandwich with English truffle) for a supplement. It’s available from Thursday to Saturday, 12pm to 3pm.  

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La Dame de Pic London

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Lunchtime in the City can be an iffy prospect, but two-starred Parisian import La Dame de Pic comes up with the goods. Anne-Sophie Pic’s two courses for £32 deal features plenty of twists on Continental classics: steak tartare with Wagyu emulsion, suckling pig with Nikka whisky and sorrel or tonka-spiked girolles risotto, and a strawberry baba soaked in Roku gin. Two glasses of wine are very reasonably priced for hereabouts at £19.

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Jeremy Chan’s west-African inspired restaurant, which has one Michelin star, is never not a good call for a special lunch or early dinner. With three courses for £35, its set menu is one of the best-value and certainly one of the most thoughtful ones around. It changes regularly, but expect both the famous plantain with smoked Scotch bonnet and raspberry and smoked crab jollof rice to be present and correct.

Smoked crab jollof rice at west African-inspired restaurant Michelin star Ikoyi in St. James’s Market Tomas Jivanda

Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester

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Alain Ducasse’s three-starred restaurant in The Dorchester hotel is most definitely at the higher end of high-end — and at £70, its three-course set lunch menu (available from Tuesday to Friday) will make a sizeable dent. That being said, executive chef Jean-Philippe Blondet’s dishes are refined works of art: chilled pepper velouté with cucumber and basil, guinea fowl with aubergine and lemon, textures of chocolate and coconut. For what it’s worth, it also includes two glasses of very good wine.

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The Ritz London

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Another, well, ritzy option, The Ritz’s three-course lunch menu comes in at £59: but for that, diners get a whistle-stop tour of Escoffier-inspired classics executed flawlessly: Ballotine of duck liver with peach and hazelnut, new-season lamb, Bresse duck with beetroot and pickled blackberries, an ethereal apricot souffle.

London’s best value Michelin-starred meals include The Ritz The Ritz/Official

Recognising that vanishingly few people are willing or able to block off the afternoon for a capital-L Lunch, Hide’s set menu comes with a cast-iron guarantee. The three-course, £48 offering (served at Above) features dishes such as beef tartare with alliums and tarragon, steamed cornish sole, mussels and whelks with eucalyptus and olive oil, and cheeses from the trolley — and Ollie Dabbous’s team guarantee diners can be in and out within 90 minutes.

Lamb at Hide, by chef Ollie Dabbous Andrew Leitch/Eater London

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

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Available from Monday to Friday, the three-for-£45 set lunch menu at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal riffs on historic gastronomy in exactly the same way as the a la carte — so there’s mushroom broth and slow-cooked egg inspired by an 18th century recipe, lamb and cucumber that takes its cue from the 19th century, and a ‘Strawberry Crust’ circa 1820.

‘Meat fruit’ — a chicken liver parfait coated in mandarin jelly — at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Knightsbridge Dinner by Heston Blumenthal/Official

Kitchen W8

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More easygoing than its location and starred status might suggest, Kitchen W8 has a set menu that’s available at lunch and dinner (though not in December). Two courses are priced at £25, with a three-course option for just £28. There’s nothing to frighten the horses, just tried-and-tested combinations, delightfully executed: confit sea trout with minted peas and English sugar snaps, glazed shoulder of lamb with pink fir potatoes, bitter chocolate pave and raspberry sorbet.

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Bibendum Restaurant

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Claude Bosi’s celebrated new kitchen serves a three-course Thursday to Saturday set lunch menu for £65 (compared to £185 for the signature tasting menu). Gallic charm abounds: there’s white asparagus with hibiscus and candied orange or Parmesan custard to start, followed by a carvery from the broche or cod a la Grenobloise, and finally either Gariguette strawberries or a raid on the ice cream trolley and honey madeleines.

Sturgeon caviar and duck jelly at London tasting menu Michelin-starred restaurant Bibendum Jason Bailey

A. Wong

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A Wong’s outstanding modern Chinese food, encompassing duck yolk custard buns that are made to look like tangerines and carrot-shaped rabbit and carrot glutinous puffs, is some of the most joyful and creative in London. Lunch is the time to come, and the dim sum, priced from £2.50 per piece, is superb value.

Dim sum at Michelin-starred A. Wong, the Chinese tasting menu restaurant in Victoria: xiao long bao and har gow served in bamboo baskets. Ola Smit/Eater London

Elystan Street

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On one of Chelsea’s most gilded thoroughfares, Phil Howard’s latest restaurant serves a three-courses-for-£30 menu at lunchtimes in addition to the a la carte. The vibe is polished Franco-British: English pea and mint soup with new potato croustades, sweetcorn and tarragon pancake with buttered girolles and grelot onions, a masterfully understated ‘couple of fine cheeses’.

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The Harwood Arms

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Tucked away on a Fulham backstreet, London’s only Michelin-starred pub gives diners a clear run at the menu come lunchtime: there’s two courses for £25 or three for £32.50. Gutsy and gamey is the order of the day: coronation quail salad, roast fallow deer with beetroot, blackcurrant and smoked bone marrow, brown bread ice cream with raspberries and whisky. It’s worth paying an extra £5.50 for one of the peerless venison Scotch eggs to have with drinks.

A Scotch egg on a white plate on a pub bar The Harwood Arms/Official

Trinity

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Clapham has seen a recent dining renaissance, with an influx of excellent restaurants — but longtime resident Trinity remains at the top of the tree. Its two-for-£30 or three-for-£40 lunchtime menus offer masses of choice, from soused mackerel with white gazpacho to raviolo Milanese and salted caramel custard tart.

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Chez Bruce

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A south-west London legend, Chez Bruce has long been enticing people to bunk off work and head to Wandsworth for its three-for-£39.50 weekday lunchtime deal. Bar a couple of dishes with supplements attached, diners have the run of what’s essentially an a la carte menu with an unapologetic, if-it-ain’t-broke modern European vibe: potted rabbit, côte de boeuf for two with hand-cut chips and béarnaise, hot chocolate pudding with praline parfait. Service is famously excellent.

Asparagus at Chez Bruce, one of Balham’s best restaurants Chez Bruce/Official

The Clove Club

Unquestionably one of London’s essential dining experiences. The Clove Club’s tasting menu comes in at £145 a head, but its four-course lunch menu (which isn’t available on Saturdays) costs a relatively modest £65. While the produce represents the best of British, the inspiration is global: consider line-caught Cornish pollock pakoras, or cedrat lemon confit with ray wing. Waiting for a table? Order the legendary pine-salt buttermilk fried chicken at the bar.

Pine salt buttermilk fried chicken at Michelin-starred The Clove Club in Shoreditch, that forms part of the best 24 hour restaurant travel itinerary for London — where to eat with one day in the city P A Jorgensen/The Clove Club

Leroy

A Michelin newcomer for 2019, Shoreditch bistro Leroy has one of the lowest-priced set menus on the list: three courses for just £22 at lunchtime from Tuesday to Saturday. What’s on offer changes daily, but it might include tomatoes and aioli on toast, sea urchin crêpe and a perfect quenelle of strawberry sorbet. Reliably lovely.

Michelin-Starred Shoreditch restaurant Leroy is scrapping the discretionary service charge when it reopens after the coronavirus lockdown Leroy/Official

Portland

Michelin-starred since 2015, the Fitzrovia restaurant from the team behind Clipstone, Quality Chop House and Emilia is a bit of a steal at lunchtime, when a two-course menu comes in at £29.50 (or £35 for three). Start with potato gnocchi, goat’s curd, yellow courgettes and lardo di Colonnata, move on to pithivier of duck and pigeon, and end things with Pump Street chocolate sponge and burnt peach sorbet.

The Ninth

Jun Tanaka’s one-starred French-Mediterranean restaurant does three plates for £33 at lunchtimes (trofie with courgette pesto, an impressive lamb merguez, mussels with mousseron, peas and sourdough), including a glass of wine (or £28 without).

Instagram/@theninthlondon

Roganic

Simon Rogan’s Marylebone restaurant achieves that rare thing: a reasonably priced lunchtime menu (four courses for £35, from Tuesday to Saturday) with all the bells and whistles that come with the full-blown tasting menu. They’re still very much in evidence in a thoughtful procession of dishes like beetroot and eel, baby gem with truffle and shimeji, and Cornish cod with tomato and smoked roe.

A sauce being poured over a bowl at Roganic in Marylebone Roganic Official

The Ledbury

Chef Brett Graham’s venerable Notting Hill star-magnet — it has two — is never going to be one for a quick lunch pit-stop — but for a truly special occasion, it’s hard to beat. From Wednesday to Friday in the middle of the day, £80 translates to four outstanding courses: there might be datterini tomatoes, lobster, sorbet and seaweed, or red ruby beef, short rib, smoked marrow, pickled vegetables and dill.

The Ledbury Official

Endo at the Rotunda

Third-generation sushi master Kazutoshi Endo’s 15-cover omakase sushi restaurant on the 8th floor of Television Centre, which gained a star this year, has a seven-course, £60 “Lunch Omakase” menu. As well as the chef’s choices, diners can order a selection of seasonal nigiri (semi-fatty tuna, perhaps, or Tokyo-style oyster) and hot dishes (Cornish monkfish tempura; homemade red mullet sandwich with English truffle) for a supplement. It’s available from Thursday to Saturday, 12pm to 3pm.  

Instagram/@_brenzz_

La Dame de Pic London

Lunchtime in the City can be an iffy prospect, but two-starred Parisian import La Dame de Pic comes up with the goods. Anne-Sophie Pic’s two courses for £32 deal features plenty of twists on Continental classics: steak tartare with Wagyu emulsion, suckling pig with Nikka whisky and sorrel or tonka-spiked girolles risotto, and a strawberry baba soaked in Roku gin. Two glasses of wine are very reasonably priced for hereabouts at £19.

La Dame de Pic/Official

Ikoyi

Jeremy Chan’s west-African inspired restaurant, which has one Michelin star, is never not a good call for a special lunch or early dinner. With three courses for £35, its set menu is one of the best-value and certainly one of the most thoughtful ones around. It changes regularly, but expect both the famous plantain with smoked Scotch bonnet and raspberry and smoked crab jollof rice to be present and correct.

Smoked crab jollof rice at west African-inspired restaurant Michelin star Ikoyi in St. James’s Market Tomas Jivanda

Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester

Alain Ducasse’s three-starred restaurant in The Dorchester hotel is most definitely at the higher end of high-end — and at £70, its three-course set lunch menu (available from Tuesday to Friday) will make a sizeable dent. That being said, executive chef Jean-Philippe Blondet’s dishes are refined works of art: chilled pepper velouté with cucumber and basil, guinea fowl with aubergine and lemon, textures of chocolate and coconut. For what it’s worth, it also includes two glasses of very good wine.

Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester/Official

The Ritz London

Another, well, ritzy option, The Ritz’s three-course lunch menu comes in at £59: but for that, diners get a whistle-stop tour of Escoffier-inspired classics executed flawlessly: Ballotine of duck liver with peach and hazelnut, new-season lamb, Bresse duck with beetroot and pickled blackberries, an ethereal apricot souffle.

London’s best value Michelin-starred meals include The Ritz The Ritz/Official

HIDE

Recognising that vanishingly few people are willing or able to block off the afternoon for a capital-L Lunch, Hide’s set menu comes with a cast-iron guarantee. The three-course, £48 offering (served at Above) features dishes such as beef tartare with alliums and tarragon, steamed cornish sole, mussels and whelks with eucalyptus and olive oil, and cheeses from the trolley — and Ollie Dabbous’s team guarantee diners can be in and out within 90 minutes.

Lamb at Hide, by chef Ollie Dabbous Andrew Leitch/Eater London

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

Available from Monday to Friday, the three-for-£45 set lunch menu at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal riffs on historic gastronomy in exactly the same way as the a la carte — so there’s mushroom broth and slow-cooked egg inspired by an 18th century recipe, lamb and cucumber that takes its cue from the 19th century, and a ‘Strawberry Crust’ circa 1820.

‘Meat fruit’ — a chicken liver parfait coated in mandarin jelly — at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Knightsbridge Dinner by Heston Blumenthal/Official

Kitchen W8

More easygoing than its location and starred status might suggest, Kitchen W8 has a set menu that’s available at lunch and dinner (though not in December). Two courses are priced at £25, with a three-course option for just £28. There’s nothing to frighten the horses, just tried-and-tested combinations, delightfully executed: confit sea trout with minted peas and English sugar snaps, glazed shoulder of lamb with pink fir potatoes, bitter chocolate pave and raspberry sorbet.

Kitchen W8/Official

Bibendum Restaurant

Claude Bosi’s celebrated new kitchen serves a three-course Thursday to Saturday set lunch menu for £65 (compared to £185 for the signature tasting menu). Gallic charm abounds: there’s white asparagus with hibiscus and candied orange or Parmesan custard to start, followed by a carvery from the broche or cod a la Grenobloise, and finally either Gariguette strawberries or a raid on the ice cream trolley and honey madeleines.

Sturgeon caviar and duck jelly at London tasting menu Michelin-starred restaurant Bibendum Jason Bailey

A. Wong

A Wong’s outstanding modern Chinese food, encompassing duck yolk custard buns that are made to look like tangerines and carrot-shaped rabbit and carrot glutinous puffs, is some of the most joyful and creative in London. Lunch is the time to come, and the dim sum, priced from £2.50 per piece, is superb value.

Dim sum at Michelin-starred A. Wong, the Chinese tasting menu restaurant in Victoria: xiao long bao and har gow served in bamboo baskets. Ola Smit/Eater London

Elystan Street

On one of Chelsea’s most gilded thoroughfares, Phil Howard’s latest restaurant serves a three-courses-for-£30 menu at lunchtimes in addition to the a la carte. The vibe is polished Franco-British: English pea and mint soup with new potato croustades, sweetcorn and tarragon pancake with buttered girolles and grelot onions, a masterfully understated ‘couple of fine cheeses’.

Instagram/@elystanstreet

The Harwood Arms

Tucked away on a Fulham backstreet, London’s only Michelin-starred pub gives diners a clear run at the menu come lunchtime: there’s two courses for £25 or three for £32.50. Gutsy and gamey is the order of the day: coronation quail salad, roast fallow deer with beetroot, blackcurrant and smoked bone marrow, brown bread ice cream with raspberries and whisky. It’s worth paying an extra £5.50 for one of the peerless venison Scotch eggs to have with drinks.

A Scotch egg on a white plate on a pub bar The Harwood Arms/Official

Trinity

Clapham has seen a recent dining renaissance, with an influx of excellent restaurants — but longtime resident Trinity remains at the top of the tree. Its two-for-£30 or three-for-£40 lunchtime menus offer masses of choice, from soused mackerel with white gazpacho to raviolo Milanese and salted caramel custard tart.