The 20 Best Restaurants in Mayfair Right Now

The best restaurants in Mayfair are not simply the most expensive ones, though the district has plenty of those. Within about half a square mile you can eat at one of London's six three-Michelin-star restaurants, or at a Young's pub grill on a site that has held an inn since 1423, and both are legitimate answers. This is the list sorted by what the meal is actually for, with addresses, so you can book rather than browse.

Red terracotta mansion buildings and shopfronts on Mount Street, Mayfair, London

128 Mount Street, Mayfair by Ricardalovesmonuments (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.

How Mayfair dining actually works

Three things shape every booking you make here. First, the stars are concentrated: the 2026 MICHELIN Guide lists 18 starred restaurants in Mayfair alone, including three of London's six three-star rooms. Second, set lunch is the loophole. The same kitchen, the same dining room and a fraction of the dinner bill, which is how most people should try a starred Mayfair restaurant for the first time. Third, the good non-starred places cluster on three streets: Mount Street, Bruton Place and Shepherd Market. Learn those and you can eat well here without a tasting menu.

The full star-by-star breakdown across the postcode is in our guide to Michelin-starred restaurants in W1. This page is the wider list.

The three-star rooms

Mayfair holds three of the six restaurants in London with three MICHELIN Stars, all within about ten minutes of each other.

  • Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, Park Lane. French cooking at the highest formal register, inside The Dorchester. The set lunch is the sane entry point.
  • Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, Carlos Place. The most personal of the three, with a menu built around producers rather than a fixed structure.
  • Sketch, The Lecture Room & Library, 9 Conduit Street W1S 2XG. The pink Gallery gets the photographs; the Lecture Room upstairs is the one with the three stars.

The two-star tables, including two new ones

Three Mayfair restaurants hold two stars in the 2026 guide, and two of them are new arrivals.

  • Gymkhana, Albemarle Street. Indian cooking in a colonial-club setting, and comfortably the hardest two-star table in Mayfair to get on a Friday.
  • Bonheur by Matt Abé, 43 Upper Brook Street W1K 7QR. Matt Abé opened his first solo restaurant here on 4 November 2025, in the room that was Le Gavroche until it closed in 2024, and it took two stars three months later.
  • Row on 5, Savile Row W1S 3PB. Jason Atherton and Spencer Metzger's flagship, open since late 2024, took one star in 2025 and a second in 2026.

One star, and the best value in the district

This is where Mayfair gets interesting, because a one-star set lunch is often cheaper than dinner at a fashionable restaurant with no stars at all.

  • Murano, 20 Queen Street W1J 5PP. Angela Hartnett's Italian restaurant, and one of the warmer starred rooms in Mayfair.
  • HIDE, 85 Piccadilly W1J 7NB. Three floors overlooking Green Park; the star is upstairs, and there is a Saturday and Sunday brunch downstairs.
  • Umu, 14 to 16 Bruton Place W1J 6LX. Kyoto-style Japanese down a mews, kaiseki menus alongside an a la carte.
  • Benares, 12a Berkeley Square W1J 6BS. Modern Indian, open Monday to Saturday 12:00 to 14:30 and 17:30 to 22:30, and Sunday evenings only.
  • Sabor, 35 to 37 Heddon Street W1B 4BR. Spanish cooking over three formats in one building: counter, dining room and the upstairs asador. The counter takes walk-ins.
  • Jamavar, Mount Street W1K 3NF. Indian, and the easier starred booking on this street.
  • Veeraswamy, Victory House, Regent Street. Britain's oldest Indian restaurant, open since 1926 and 100 years old in March 2026. Worth knowing before you book: it is in a lease dispute with the Crown Estate, which declined to renew, and the case was not resolved as of summer 2026. It is still trading.
  • Ormer Mayfair at Flemings Mayfair, Pavyllon London at the Four Seasons on Park Lane, Sushi Kanesaka at 45 Park Lane, Ambassadors Clubhouse and Labombe by Trivet complete the one-star list, the last two both new in 2026.

The institutions

Mayfair's older restaurants are not nostalgia acts. Several are the best in their category anywhere in London.

  • Scott's, 20 Mount Street W1K 2HE. British fish and shellfish, on this street since 1851. The oyster counter is the best seat in the house and Sunday lunch runs from midday to 5pm.
  • The Guinea Grill, 30 Bruton Place W1J 6NL. A Young's pub with a dining room behind it, specialising in dry-aged grass-fed British beef since 1952. An inn has stood on the site since 1423. Open 11am to 11pm Monday to Saturday, 11am to 9pm on Sunday.
  • Bentley's Oyster Bar & Grill, 11 to 15 Swallow Street W1B 4DG. Shucking oysters since 1916. You can eat at the ground-floor bar without a reservation and without committing to a full dinner.
  • Corrigan's Mayfair, 28 Upper Grosvenor Street W1K 7EH. Richard Corrigan's British and Irish cooking, game-heavy in season. Tuesday to Saturday, lunch from midday and dinner to 9.45pm.
  • Kai Mayfair, 65 South Audley Street W1K 2QU. Chinese cooking of unusual precision. Lunch 12:00 to 14:30, dinner 18:00 to 22:30, and an afternoon tea slot at 15:00.

The neighbourhood ones

Mayfair is a residential district as well as a destination, and these are where people who live here actually eat.

  • Kitty Fisher's, 10 Shepherd Market W1J 7QF. A tiny basement dining room off Mayfair's least Mayfair-like square, cooking over coals. Book early; there are not many tables.
  • The Audley Public House, 41 to 43 Mount Street W1K 2RX. A restored corner pub, walk-ins only downstairs, no cash. The best option in Mayfair when you have not booked anything.
  • Mount St. Restaurant, first floor, 41 to 43 Mount Street W1K 2RX. Modern British on the floor above The Audley, with an art collection on the walls. Lunch and dinner Tuesday to Saturday, closed on public holidays.
  • Hakkasan Mayfair, 17 Bruton Street W1J 6QB. The Mayfair sibling of the Hanway Place original, Cantonese, and the dim sum lunch is the good-value way in.
  • Sexy Fish, Berkeley Square House W1J 6BR. Loud, expensive, Japanese-leaning seafood in a room full of Damien Hirst. It is a night out rather than a quiet dinner, and it runs to 1am Monday to Saturday.

How to book, and when

Friday and Saturday evenings at anything starred want two to four weeks, sometimes longer for Gymkhana or the three-star rooms. Midweek lunch is a different market entirely and often available within days. Three practical moves that work in Mayfair specifically:

  • Book the set lunch, not dinner. Same kitchen, same room, a fraction of the price. It is the single best piece of advice for eating in this district.
  • Use the counters. Scott's oyster bar, Bentley's ground floor and the Sabor counter all take people who have not booked.
  • Keep The Audley in reserve. Walk-ins only, on Mount Street, and it solves the problem of a Mayfair evening with nothing booked.

For the wider area, see the Mayfair area guide, the best luxury hotels in Mayfair, and the pillar guide to where to eat in W1. Star listings here follow the 2026 MICHELIN Guide list for London, which is the source to check before you book, because stars move every February.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best restaurant in Mayfair?

For the highest cooking, one of the three-star rooms: Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, or Sketch's Lecture Room & Library. For the best meal most people will actually book, Scott's on Mount Street for seafood or Gymkhana on Albemarle Street for Indian. There is no single answer, because Mayfair covers three-star tasting menus and a 1952 pub grill in the same few streets.

How many Michelin-starred restaurants are there in Mayfair?

Eighteen in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide: three with three stars, three with two stars and twelve with one. Two of the two-star restaurants, Bonheur by Matt Abé and Row on 5, are new for 2026, as are the one-star Ambassadors Clubhouse and Labombe by Trivet. Stars are announced each February, so check the current list before booking around one.

Where can you eat in Mayfair without spending a fortune?

Set lunch at a starred restaurant is the best value in the district, often a small fraction of the dinner price for the same kitchen. Beyond that, the counter at Bentley's on Swallow Street, the dim sum lunch at Hakkasan Mayfair, the Sabor counter on Heddon Street and the bar at The Audley on Mount Street all let you eat well without a full-price dinner booking.

Do you need to book restaurants in Mayfair?

For dinner, yes, and two to four weeks ahead for a Friday or Saturday at anything starred. Lunch is far easier, often bookable within a few days. The exceptions worth remembering are The Audley Public House, which is walk-ins only, and the counters at Scott's, Bentley's and Sabor, which take people without reservations.

Is there a dress code in Mayfair restaurants?

Smart casual covers almost everywhere, and jeans are fine in the pubs and neighbourhood restaurants. The hotel dining rooms are the exception: The Dorchester and The Connaught both expect something closer to smart, and a jacket is never wrong at that level. Check the restaurant's own site, since policies change and only a handful still require a jacket outright.

Which Mayfair street has the most restaurants?

Mount Street. Scott's, Jamavar, The Audley and Mount St. Restaurant are all on it, along with the shops that made the street's name. Bruton Place, a mews off Berkeley Square, is the other concentration, holding both The Guinea Grill and Umu within a few doors of each other.