At Chelsea Harbour’s Aquasia in Fulham Broadway you can have a Clasically Bling with, other ingredients, Louis Roederer Cristal champagne and gold leaf for a cool £150 – or an edible tuna martini or smoked duck vodka martini at gentler £8.50 a pop.

For meat eaters this is quite simply a paradise. The Arkansas is a homely looking place with a few chairs and tables on the edge of Spitalfields Market, and all the meat served here is sourced, fresh and delicious, from the nearby traders. Everything is grilled, and served with a good choice of generous side orders like chips or cabbage in the best home-made style.

From the stunning décor and mysterious setting to the comfortable glass-topped restaurant and attentive, stylish service, everything about Baltic is designed to create a special evening. Along with this special evening, you will love what London has to offer.

The Kiwi kitchen at Baroque in Ealing Broadway is London\'s dedicated Kiwi restaurant. Baroque has been designed to set new standards in style and drinking environments. Menu features mostly lamb, papua, kumara-sweet potato and even New Zealand chocolate fish. Fluffy little ricotta and pea fritters topped with smoked salmon, manuka honey vodka dressing, coconut and ginger scented green-lipped mussels, all this can be found at Baroque in Ealing, London.

At Benihana\'s three London Restaurants you will experience the fine art of Teppanyaki cookery. Your famous red-capped chef will dazzle you with his juggling and knife skills as he cooks a variety of succulent meat, crisp vegetables and fresh seafood before your very eyes at your teppan table. Your chef offers a fun and exciting performance as well as cooking mouth-watering cuisine.

This restaurant offers a range of Mediterranean cuisine in the heart of London. This new Bistro offers an all plain Vanilla, open seven days a week. Bistro 1 has been recently selected London\'s top 100 restaurants by the Hardens guide.

It is one of the most remarkable rooms in London, an amazing, skylit restaurant and new bar which overlooks the fashionable King\'s Road below. The menu features Modern British dishes using the freshest seasonal produce, many from the wonderful foodstore below. Game and crustacea are specialities.

Bush Bar and Grill fancies itself as a cut above the other smart bars serving modern eastern cuisine food in Shepherd\'s Bush. This corner of West London is incredibly well served with cheap and medium eats, and Bush is that little bit pricier... but deserving of \'treat\' status. The food really is very good and this combines with a buzzy ambiance to make you feel like a smart cookie for choosing to eat there.

A well run Mexican restaurant is somewhere to go if you find yourself in the middle of town and don’t mind paying a premium for a tasty fajita. The bar is particularly good, with one of the best Margaritas in town, and to be honest most of the groups in here have come to drink and order a few nibbles as an afterthought.

One of the best Indian restaurants in the country, and exclusively vegetarian! This place is a real treat for non meat-eaters, with a huge menu of spicy treats covering four pages. Chutneys is usually busy, and the efficient friendly staff definitely add to the experience. It is a top tip for vegetarians who feel exasperated by the limited choice in most Indian restaurants.

Since its opening there has always been a certain buzz around this restaurant. Cinnamon Club has it all: a superb setting, the Grade II listed Old Westminster Library, now beautifully updated, a remarkable head chef, Vivek Singh, formerly head chef at India\'s most exclusive hotel, an equally remarkable consultant chef, the Michelin-starred Eric Chavot, spices and ingredients flown in directly from India, and a very buzzy bar. The changing menu draws from all parts of India and features starters like king prawns in saffron almond sauce, shrimp pickle and pilau rice, and mains like lucknow style braised lamb shank with saffron and rose water. Wines have been carefully matched to the menu, with sixteen labels available by the glass. It is a unique addition to London\'s restaurant scene.

Only a 4-minute taxi ride from Victoria Station, this award-winning restaurant-bar-terrace overlooks \'Side Street\', a uniquely-conceived work of art linking John Islip Street and Millbank. Very easy on the eye, the restaurant is a series of mini dining rooms with floor-to-ceiling glass windows. You pass through an arty avenue of columns from the pre-dinner drinks area to your table situated in a light and airy dining environment. It is a fine modern European cooking. Try a little peppered beef, rocket salad and Roquefort to start, followed by baked monkfish with a crayfish risotto from the a la carte menu. For dessert, treat yourself to the lemon and honey rum babas. With an extensive New and Old World wine list, dedicated vegetarian menu (Garden Menu) and a daily changing Kitchen Menu, City Café is a smart choice for informal, not to mention funky, fine dining to suit all diets. The health conscious will no doubt appreciate that low-in-fat and lighter calorie dishes are highlighted on the menus.

In many ways, Eclipse is the perfect neighbourhood bar, small and intimate without being cramped or claustrophobic. The menu\'s speciality burgers come in huge portions of everything from sesame-seeded tuna to chicken Caesar. But when all is said and done, this is a bar and you would come here for the drinks, which are excellent.

The well-pitted dartboard, the dark wood furniture, the classic white-on-black letter board displaying the drink list- that’s The Endurance’s sober interior. The nostalgia is updated with few key modern trappings that make for an admirably well-rounded drinking experience-good food and particularly good Sunday lunches, a decent range of wines, beers and premium spirits and a juke-box with a broad but respectable choice of tunes.

An exciting and relatively new restaurant that has knocked the socks off the Shoreditch locals since it opened. They thought that their dodgy haircuts and heavy drinking defined sophistication but the North London Eyre brothers have taught them different.

The Georgetown is located next door to London Bridge Hotel. It offers a return to the gracious colonial days with varied and exquisite cuisines of the Malaysian Malays, Mandarin Chinese and Tamil Indians - all under one roof. Succulent dishes that will appeal to everyone\'s taste. Open for lunch from 12 noon to 2.30pm and for dinner from 5pm to 11pm every day.

Hakkasan is a cool Chinese restaurant in the Soho area, combining classic and contemporary style and colour. The Chinese lanterns providing the light give the restaurant a moonlit oriental feeling. Hakkasan is London’s finest Chinese restaurants and the only one ever awarded with a Michelin star. The highlights on the menu are the dim sum selection and the peppery steaks.

London is the original Hard Rock Cafe and opened its doors in 1971 and was Britain’s first taste of real American food. Popular with native Londoners and homesick Americans flaunt the best hamburgers play great music and displays rock and roll treasures. Also found there can be The Vault which is home to Jimmy Hendrix Flying V guitar. Come on down and see for yourself.

Hell as a huge bar with a very good kitchen, a welcome addition to this already well-served part of town. This international cuisine restaurant is a 5 minute walk away from Old Street tube station.

J Sheekey’s restaurant located in central London in St Martin’s Court, that’s an example of traditional fish and seafood restaurant. First opened in 1896 and has grown in size since. J Sheekey’s specialty is fish, but there are also vegetarian and vegan choices available. Due to the freshness and ingredients available, the restaurant has no set menu. However, examples of the menu could be fillet of cod, monkfish and J Sheekey’s own fish pie.

The rather wonderful, wallet friendly Leon is, unsurprisingly, expanding. They have just open in Ludgate Circus. Leon serves everything from big breakfasts, bacon sarnies and organic porridge to grilled free-range chicken aioli, salads based on ‘superfoods’- bursting with broccoli, alfalfa, sprouts and seeds- to virtually carb-free chocolate brownies. All this and a bar licence, too.

This charming and ever-popular restaurant on the Old Brompton Road is a great choice for lunch. The fish-based set menu at lunch is under ten pounds, and in general Lou Pescadou’s is incredibly good value. The freshly sourced fish dishes are cooked with style, the service is friendly and efficient and the place has a cosy, relaxed atmosphere. Order one of the simpler recipes to ensure you can appreciate the excellence of the fish. A thoroughly satisfying place, well loved by locals.

This busy, inexpensive restaurant in Bayswater is the place to go for a seafood blow-out. The house specialty is lobster, clams, squid, scallops, sea bass – it’s all available cooked to perfection in a light style that perfectly brings out the flavours. The cooking is incredibly assured and this place is a sure bet for a great meal. For one of the tastiest mouthfuls in London, try the baby squid tempura.

There\'s something about the picky share-and-share-alike nature of Lebanese food that makes you not want the night to end. It\'s all the overflowing wine glasses, top-notch tapas and high-pitched revealing chat that do it. The good thing about this place is that it’s open till 1.30am, so you can carry on past the witching hour without getting abuse from the waiters. Located on the Edgware Road, it’s only a few minutes away from the West End and the busy shopping street of Oxford Street.

This grill restaurant in Shepherd\'s Bush is dedicated to the English tradition of meat eating. There are a few menu choices for fish eaters and some salads, but the emphasis is definitely on delicious meat, all carefully sourced and raised to produce the best cuts.

It is the hottest spot in the City because the grand opening of one of the latest Conran restaurant, The British menu of simply cooked food, carefully chosen from fisheries, market growers cattle farmers and dairies. Paternoster Chop House has the very best ingredients in the world in this country and aims to demonstrate with its delicious food on of Britain\'s best kept secrets.

Planet Hollywood is a madhouse of giant proportions. From the scurrying waiters to the continuous soundtracks to the projection screen going up and down, to the sounds of happy kids, to the visual overload of a collection of museum-quality film memorabilia, Planet Hollywood\'s atmosphere is absolutely unique. Worldly known this is a good place for a big meal and to enjoy with either friends, family or even both. Close to Piccadilly Circus, the night wont end as the heart of London is just outside.

The patisserie has a fabulous array of unusual biscuits and cakes and the delicatessen offers a superb selection from pickles to flower water. This is the best place to try traditional Iranian food and the best in London.

Entering Sarastro Restaurant is like entering a fairytale! This fabulous Turkish oriented restaurant in London’s Theatreland is an exuberant cross between an opera set and Aladdin’s Cave. The interior is a busy mix of colourful stage props, artwork and heavy drapes. The menu includes Mediterranean food such as excellent fish, vegetarian and Turkish dishes.

In the heart of East London Shish is pitching itself a little differently, as a chic, friendly restaurant where you can grab a gourmet bite in comfortable surroundings, rather than a straight take-away.

Tamarind Restaurant in Mayfair the first Indian restaurant to achieve Michelin recognition has retained its prestigious star for the third successive year for 2003. The Indian restaurant now in its eighth successful year recently underwent and the changes in Tamarind\'s design bring the restaurant a superb, stylish interior. General Manager, Rajesh Suri says \'At Tamarind we pride ourselves on introducing guests to the delights, sophistication and variation of Indian cuisine within a refined and relaxed environment.\"

Tas is a delightful place in the South East of London, serving chic Turkish food at affordable prices in a thoroughly pleasant environment. Tas is an oasis of good eating A meal here will leave you with a contented smile as broad as those worn by the staff.

This vegetarian and vegan restaurant is hidden behind a superbly romantic courtyard in Hammersmith. The staffs are friendly, the food sublime, and the wine list includes vegan options. Tempting dishes from an ever-changing menu. Even if you are not vegetarian this is an excellent choice, with a welcoming, intimate atmosphere and consistently delicious fare at outrageously affordable prices. There’s an equally good sister restaurant in Belsize Park if the original is booked out.

The food is superb and the views across London towards Parliament and the London Eye cannot be beaten - by night, this panorama should ensure plenty of romantic bookings. Prices are low given the calibre of the kitchen, although mercifully out of reach for teenagers.

This expensive but extremely good restaurant opened with some fanfare over a year ago in the heart of trendy Hoxton, London. The cooking puts modern twists on old favourites like stuffed lamb, and in general it’s very successful.

In the most trendy part of London and most well known, Zafferano can be found, the food is remarkable, consisting of old favourites cooked with loving care and a few twists from the finest ingredients available. It is a 2 minute walk away from Knightsbridge tube station.