Diners' Choice: Best Value restaurants in City of London

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Updated 05 December 2024

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Ken's Wine Bar

4.9

4.9 (15)

£26 to £40

Wine Bar

Clerkenwell

About the restaurant

A good time cave à manger on Exmouth Market. Ken's presents a daily rotating food and wine offering. Chef Fergus Shields' contemporary European cooking foregrounds seasonality whilst the wine program is led by Dan Long, with the list featuring established icons, natural wine legends, as well as future classics from all around the world.

Top review

NellW

Dined on 7 Dec 2024

Outstanding stuff! Wonderful team & absolutely delicious food!

Tanakatsu

4.8

4.8 (920)

£26 to £40

Japanese

Clerkenwell

About the restaurant

A contemporary Japanese diner,
based on Katsu Specialists throughout Japan.

We strive to produce the finest
Katsu and Teri-Yaki by using our own family recipes.

Believing in Simplicity, Honesty and Quality.

TANAKATSU team.

Top review

Rachel

Dined on 6 Dec 2024

Great food as always. Great service and never disappointed.

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4.8

4.8 (4094)

£41 and over

British

Farringdon

About the restaurant

Fergus Henderson’s original home of “Nose to Tail Eating” opened in a former smokehouse around the corner from Smithfield Market in 1994.

Celebrating the finest of indigenous British produce and making the most of what is seasonally best whilst applying straight forward cooking techniques, St. John is now celebrated as one of the 50 Best Restaurants in the World and in 2009 was awarded its first Michelin Star.

Nose to tail eating means that, where appropriate, every part of the animal should be put to good use in the kitchen and so along with Roast Beef and Lemon Sole, diners will find Rolled Pig’s Spleen, Kidneys and Ox Heart, Liver and Chitterlings as well as the Roast Bone Marrow & Parsley Salad, something of a ‘signature’ dish.

Top review

Michaelvip

Dined 5 days ago

What a fantastic experience. We are fans of “nose to tail” dining and love dishes made with organ meats and other elements not usually served in restaurants. Even so the cuisine here was extraordinary: Exceptionally well cooked and simply presented. And our server James was both knowledgeable and very attentive. All around a smashing dinner. When we return to London we will most definitely come back.

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Popular dish

Eccles Cake and Lancashire Cheese

Popular dish

Welsh Rarebit

Popular dish

Roast Bone Marrow and Parsley Salad

Cafe Below

4.7

4.7 (434)

£25 and under

British

Bank

About the restaurant

In the atmospheric, mediaeval crypt of St Mary le Bow Church, the Cafe Below is a City institution. A quiet oasis from the hectic world above, serving a short menu of British and European dishes, with the occasional curry, the cafe has an ever changing seasonal menu. Being beneath the Bow Bells, naturally we are dedicated to all things London, so we source as locally as possible; our coffee is roasted in Hackney and our beer brewed in the East End. For breakfast, we are the perfect place for a moment of quiet before the day begins or a small or large business meeting, all with Homemade rye toast, River Farm smoked salmon, Brioche French toast and our own granola.

Jay Rayner hailed the cafe as being the "kind of restaurant any hectic city needs"; a quality driven, friendly place where you can meet mates, clients or colleagues, all in the unique setting of a Christopher Wren crypt!

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Nigel

Dined 4 days ago

Charming idiosyncratic crypt venue, on the noisy side (albeit xmas party time); decent food and wine and good value

56 West Smithfield

4.7

4.7 (19)

£25 and under

Wine Bar

Farringdon

About the restaurant

56 West Smithfield was founded by a family of winemakers, with a passion for creating unique, hand-crafted wines.

Our family vineyard, Château De La Cômbe, is a small, boutique vineyard in Provence. Determined to make exceptional reds and whites in a region renowned for its rosés, we spent years lovingly restoring the chateau and estate, rebuilding the winemaking cave with state-of-the-art equipment and re-planting and tending to the vines. It wasn’t long before our organic wines began winning international awards – a testament to quality winemaking in Provence.

Eager to share our wines with the world, we partnered with like-minded, family-owned and boutique wineries to bring our rare and wonderful wines to you at 56 West Smithfield, without costly intermediaries.

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Joannevip

Dined 2 days ago

We didn't eat but popped in for a couple of glasses of their excellent Provence Rose served in beautiful wine glasses (much nicer than pub glasses wine glasses!) - delicious and excellent value for money. I will be back.

Blacklock City

4.8

4.8 (4451)

£25 and under

Steak

Bank

About the restaurant

Blacklock is a modern version of the Great British chophouse. Set in an old electricity substation on the site of London"s oldest meat market. We take the best meat in the country from the award-winning farmer and butcher Philip Warren in Cornwall. We cook chops simply over our real charcoal grill with a little help from vintage Blacklock irons and serve it all up alongside cocktails that give back and wine on tap in our atmospheric subterranean chop mecca. On Sundays we serve a Roast almost as good as Mum's.

We have limited spaces for Walk-ins, so we encourage booking in advance to avoid disappointment during busy times.

Monday - Friday
Bookings & Walk-ins for lunch - 12pm - 3pm
Bookings & Walk-ins for dinner - 5pm - 10pm

Saturday
Bookings & Walk-ins all day - 12 - 10.30pm

Sunday
Bookings & Walk-ins - 12pm - 5:45pm

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Jennifer

Dined 3 days ago

Absolutely delicious 😋 everything was cooked to perfection..perfect evening Great service .. see you sooner than you think!!😂😘

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4.5

4.5 (1819)

£41 and over

Japanese

Liverpool Street

About the restaurant

Located on the 38th and 39th floors of the Heron Tower at 110 Bishopsgate, SUSHISAMBA London features the highest outdoor dining terraces in Europe, offering unparalleled 360-degree views of the City. Two panoramic glass elevators whisk patrons from the ground to the 39th floor, opening up London from inside-out as the lifts climb further and further upwards.

SUSHISAMBA’s main dining room overlooks views of London with floor-to-ceiling windows. A grid of lights hung through the open bamboo ceiling at varying heights creating a magical experience during daytime and a truly intimate setting in the evening.

Indoor-outdoor elements weave throughout the space, most notably, the structural orange tree on the west terrace. A SUSHISAMBA icon, the tree sculpture reinforces the earth-to-sky motif while being an artwork in itself.

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Martin

Dined on 8 Nov 2024

Great food great wine great service Truly Amazing view

Harrys Bar & Dining Room EC4

4.7

4.7 (297)

£26 to £40

English

Bank

About the restaurant

Please note that Harry's Bar reservations are for food only bookings. For drinks bookings please contact the restaurant directly.
Tucked away in an old cobbled yard between Cannon Street and Bank stations, Harry's Bar & Dining Room has a great atmosphere and prides itself on the quality of its food, wine and service, being professional yet friendly. Offering a fine British/Modern European cuisine the menu includes dishes such as new season Smoked Salmon Gravlax, or Seared Venison Loin Harry's Bar is renowned for the quality and freshness of the ingredients and, in particular, the char-grilled Scottish fillet steaks which are always a winner! A little gem in the City, smart yet homely surroundings and faultless service, and a very easy place to feel comfortable in.

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Jay

Dined 6 days ago

A great place for lunch with a decent menu and drinks list. Service could not be faulted and the quality of food was also above average. Will be on my list to revisit in 2025. Thank you to the team.

Kintan High Holborn

4.6

4.6 (1810)

£41 and over

Japanese

Chancery Lane

About the restaurant

Kintan is the first authentic Japanese style yakiniku in London. Yakiniku is a Japanese term that literally translates to “grilled meat.” It has a long-standing history and a strong presence in Japanese cuisine. Our restaurant features a built-in smokeless roaster at each table which enables fun and interactive dining where our guests become the chefs.

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Graeme

Dined 6 days ago

First time visiting so not sure what to expect - excellent food and service with very helpful staff who explained everything. We thoroughly enjoyed our time and would return. Monday happy hour all day is a great incentive to visit there at the start of the week. Thanks for an enjoyable evening! 😀

Restaurant St. Barts

4.8

4.8 (102)

£41 and over

British

Farringdon

About the restaurant

A British Tasting Menu experience for Dinner, and shorter Set Menu for Lunch - tucked away in London’s Smithfield the dining room overlooks the historical Church of St Bartholomew the Great. We received our first Michelin Star in March 2023 and were awarded a Michelin Green Star in February 2024 - making us the only London restaurant to hold both awards.

Tues - Sat Dinner | Tasting Menu | £160pp
Tues - Sat Lunch | Short or Long Set Lunch | £70/£110pp

Restaurant St. Barts is the culmination of passion & hard work from three long-term friends Johnnie, Luke & Toby - the team behind NEST restaurant in Shoreditch. It is a celebration of British produce in the heart of historical London.

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Simon

Dined 4 days ago

Another lovely lunch at St Bart’s. The set menu was varied, extraordinary and delicious. Such great staff - attentive but not over the top we shall return.

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