The Best Restaurants in Fitzrovia: 14 Tables Worth Booking

Fourteen tables in the block of W1 north of Oxford Street, with the addresses, the three that hold Michelin stars, and the ones you can still get into on a Tuesday.

The best restaurants in Fitzrovia are concentrated in a smaller area than most people realise. Everything on this list sits within a fifteen-minute walk, and six of the fourteen are on one street. That density is why Fitzrovia works as a dinner destination in a way that its reputation, as the quiet half of W1, does not suggest.

It is also the reason to prefer it over Soho on a weekday. The rooms are calmer, the tables are further apart, and you can usually book at three days' notice rather than three weeks. What you give up is the late-night sprawl, because Fitzrovia largely stops around midnight.

Charlotte Street: six of the fourteen

Charlotte Street runs north from Percy Street to Fitzroy Square, and the stretch between Windmill Street and Goodge Street is the densest eating in W1 outside Soho and Chinatown.

Pied a Terre

34 Charlotte Street, W1T 2NH

London's longest-running holder of a Michelin star, and still a small dining room rather than a showpiece. The cooking is French-rooted and ingredient-led, and it holds a star in the current guide. It is the Fitzrovia restaurant to book when the occasion warrants it and you want the room to be quiet enough to hear the other person.

The Ninth

22 Charlotte Street, W1T 2NB

Jun Tanaka's Mediterranean cooking, also starred, and deliberately built as a neighbourhood restaurant rather than a destination. Fine-dining technique on plates designed to be shared, which is a harder trick than it sounds and the reason this one has held up.

Kitchen Table

70 Charlotte Street, W1T 4QG

A counter for a couple of dozen people wrapped around an open kitchen, where the chefs plate in front of you and talk you through what they are doing. A tasting menu, no choice, and an evening that is as much theatre as dinner. Book far ahead.

Roka

37 Charlotte Street, W1T 1RR

The Japanese robata grill that has anchored the corner of Charlotte Street and Rathbone Place since 2004. Sushi, sashimi and skewers over charcoal, with the Shochu Lounge downstairs for the drink before or after. Reliable in a way that few restaurants of its age still are.

Norma

8 Charlotte Street, W1T 2LS

An Italian grand cafe over three floors, leaning Sicilian and Moorish rather than northern, which means more citrus, more almond and more fish than a standard trattoria. Good for lunch, and one of the better-looking rooms in W1.

Six by Nico

33-41 Charlotte Street, W1T 1RR

Six courses on a theme that changes every six weeks, at a price that makes a tasting menu a normal weeknight rather than an event. The theme is a gimmick and the cooking usually is not. Book on the changeover week if you want the version everyone will be talking about.

The rest of the neighbourhood

Akoko

21 Berners Street, W1T 3LP

Modern West African cooking built on smoking, curing and fermenting, served as a tasting menu, and holding a Michelin star. It is the most distinctive thing to eat in Fitzrovia and the one to choose if you have already done the French and Japanese rooms on Charlotte Street.

Chishuru

3 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 8AX

Also modern West African, over two floors, with a set menu that changes regularly. It began life as a supper club and a market residency before taking a permanent site, and the cooking still has that looseness about it.

Rovi

59 Wells Street, W1A 3AE

Yotam Ottolenghi's vegetable-led restaurant, working with fire and fermentation rather than treating vegetables as a side. The menu is not entirely meat-free, but the balance is inverted from a normal London restaurant, and it is the best table in W1 for a group where one person does not eat meat.

Portland

113 Great Portland Street, W1W 6QQ

A small independent modern European restaurant at the western edge of Fitzrovia, with a frequently changing menu built around whatever is good that week. Understated, and consistently well reviewed since it opened.

Clipstone

5 Clipstone Street, W1W 6BB

Portland's sibling around the corner, on a quiet residential junction, and the more casual of the two. Seasonal British produce, a good-value lunch, and a wine list worth spending time on.

Berners Tavern

10 Berners Street, W1T 3NP

The dining room at The London EDITION hotel, and one of the most photographed interiors in London: a triple-height room hung floor to ceiling with gilt-framed pictures. Jason Atherton's kitchen, and a room that works as well for breakfast as for dinner.

Lima

31 Rathbone Place, W1T 1JH

Peruvian cooking with the ceviche, the tiger's milk and the purple corn done properly rather than as decoration. It arrived when almost nobody in London was cooking Peruvian food and it has outlasted most of what followed.

Copita Fitzrovia

62 Goodge Street, W1T 4NF

Spanish small plates from a former wine shipper, with a sherry list that is the actual reason to come. Stand at the counter with a copita and three plates and it is one of the best cheap evenings in W1.

How to plan an evening here

• Tasting menus need weeks, everything else needs days. Kitchen Table, Akoko and Chishuru run limited covers around set services. The rest of this list is bookable at short notice outside December.
• Weekday lunch is the value. Fitzrovia is full of media and advertising offices, so the set lunches are priced for people who eat out on expenses and pay for it themselves in August.
• The neighbourhood closes earlier than Soho. If the evening is going to run past midnight, start in Fitzrovia and finish south of Oxford Street.
• Walk it. Goodge Street station puts you within five minutes of almost everything above, and Charlotte Street is pleasanter on foot than any cab route through it.

For the neighbourhood beyond the restaurants, see our Fitzrovia guide. The star holders across the whole postcode are listed in Michelin-starred restaurants in W1, and the comparison with the other side of Oxford Street is in the best restaurants in Soho and Mayfair versus Soho for dinner. If you are struggling to get a table anywhere, our guide to booking London's hardest restaurants covers the release times. Everything else is at where to eat in W1 and on the W1 London homepage.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which Fitzrovia restaurants have a Michelin star?

Three, and all of them sit within a few hundred metres of each other. Pied a Terre at 34 Charlotte Street is one of London's longest-standing star holders. The Ninth at 22 Charlotte Street is Jun Tanaka's Mediterranean cooking. Akoko at 21 Berners Street serves modern West African tasting menus. Our W1 Michelin page carries the full borough-wide list.

What is the best street to eat on in Fitzrovia?

Charlotte Street, without much argument. Within about 300 metres you have Pied a Terre, The Ninth, Roka, Kitchen Table, Norma and Six by Nico, which is a density central London struggles to match outside Soho. Goodge Street runs a close second for small plates, and Great Portland Street for the quieter neighbourhood rooms.

Where should I eat in Fitzrovia on a budget?

Passyunk Avenue on Cleveland Street for a Philadelphia cheesesteak, Laksamania on Newman Street for Malaysian laksa, and Santa Maria on New Cavendish Street for pizza. Copita and Salt Yard on Goodge Street both work as a cheap evening if you order three small plates rather than five, which is the trap tapas menus set.

Is Fitzrovia better than Soho for dinner?

Different rather than better. Soho is denser, later and noisier, and it is where you go when the evening has no plan. Fitzrovia is calmer, more residential in feel and easier to book at short notice, which makes it the better choice for a conversation. The two are separated only by Oxford Street, so you can change your mind on the walk.

How far ahead do I need to book?

For the tasting menus, weeks. Kitchen Table and Akoko run limited covers around a set service and release tables well in advance. For the rest of this list, a few days is usually enough, and a Tuesday or Wednesday table can often be had on the day. The exception is the week before Christmas, when the area's advertising and media offices book everything.

Where exactly is Fitzrovia?

The block of W1 north of Oxford Street, bounded by Tottenham Court Road to the east, Great Portland Street to the west and the Euston Road to the north. Postcode W1T mostly, with W1W towards Great Portland Street. Goodge Street and Tottenham Court Road are the useful tube stations, and Warren Street covers the northern end.

Addresses checked on 9 September 2026 against each restaurant's own website and Hot Dinners' Fitzrovia listing. Michelin star holders are those listed on our own W1 guide. Restaurants close and move, so confirm before travelling.