"Price: £225 The Ledbury scores high in the field of starry restaurants because it’s a lovely place to be. Light floods the sedate Notting Hill dining room in the day, and the staff speak like regular people rather than AI Jeeves. The food mixes French technique with quality British ingredients, and every sweetbread or Cornish turbot tastes better than any you’ve had before. It can be a bit finickety at times, but with every brush of British wasabi or scoop of turbot bone velouté, you learn just enough without feeling lectured." - jake missing, sinead cranna