The 25 Best Restaurants In London

"Fiery, sizzling, blazing, scorching. They’re all fitting words when talking about sitting at Kiln’s counter. The perennially heaving restaurant on Brewer Street has an energy that can only be understood when you’re sat at the bar, head bowed over a smoked kipper jungle curry, with what feels like the entire population of Soho pulsating around you. This British-Thai restaurant takes no prisoners. Its changing menu will see an electric northern laap with pollock one month, before it switches to a pork offal creation. Sit at the counter and watch flames dance over claypots as you sip a crisp beer and know that, if it all gets too much, you can always lean on those lush pork belly and brown crab noodles." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, heidi lauth beasley