Diners' Choice: European restaurants in London

OpenTable

Updated 05 March 2025

Looking for restaurants with the best overall European cuisine in London? You’re in the right place. Each month OpenTable analyses more than 400,000 new diner reviews. We sort the results by category to help you discover new favourites. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

Franks Canteen

4.9

4.9 (319)

£26 to £40

European

Highbury

About the restaurant

Franks Canteen serves breakfast, brunch, lunch & dinner with the menus being modern using locally sourced ingredients and worldwide in style.

Top review

Daniel

Dined 7 days ago

Fantastic food, lovely helpful friendly service. Look forward to returning often!

Trinity

4.9

4.9 (3608)

£41 and over

European

Clapham

About the restaurant

Trinity reopened in October 2015 with the same ethos, culture and team whilst recreating a new and refreshing backdrop - retaining its sophistication and remaining a restaurant of significance in Clapham.
An alfresco dining area accommodates 16 guests, the dining room seating 40 guests that now have a clear view into an open plan kitchen with banquette seating surrounded by the soft hues of jade green and dusty heather pink.
Staying true to his style of cookery, the new menu will focus on Adam’s interpretation of great classics in a relaxed and approachable setting.
The kitchen presents a four course a la carte menu for a set price of £70 for lunch and £120 for dinner. The wine list continues to offer great value with the Chef's Cellar List (just add VAT and corkage), increasing both our quantity and quality and a overall extension to the main wine list of up to 400 bins now on display in the feature wine cellar on the ground floor.

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Chowhound

Dined 3 days ago

Professional and unobtrusive service, exceptional food, great ambience. Nothing can be faulted.

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Trinity Beef Tartare - 5 supp

Café Deco

4.8

4.8 (49)

£41 and over

European

Fitzrovia

About the restaurant

Café Deco is a restaurant & wine bar in Bloomsbury. We serve classic, broadly European food, with a focus on the best possible ingredients. To keep in step with the seasons - and to keep life interesting - we change our menu every week. And we do the same with our wines too - sourcing the most delicious bottles we can find from small producers who work with minimal intervention, sustainably and with respect for the land and the vine. Our list is always changing and we love nothing more than to help you pick the perfect thing to drink.

Nestled in our little corner of central London, our terrace buzzes on warm sunny days into the evening and inside hums to the sound of conversation all year. We want you to feel welcome, looked after and at home.

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Simon

Dined on 7 Mar 2025

10's across the board. Service was impeccable, food was out of this world, restaurant was clean and had the perfect ambience. Couldn't have asked for a better restaurant experience.

Soif Restaurant

4.7

4.7 (815)

£26 to £40

European

Battersea

About the restaurant

SOIF is a charming neighbourhood bistro, serving seasonal modern European food and an exciting
natural wine selection.
Please note that we do not take bookings for outside. We work with first arrived, first served
policy. Thank you for your understanding. The kitchen closes at 9am on Monday and 9.30pm during the rest of the week and at 3.30pm on Sunday.
We are opening on Mondays for Chicken & Wine Monday.
From Tuesday to Saturday, kitchen closes between 3pm and 6pm, however as we are still open for drinks, we can serve Charcuterie Selection or Cheese Selection during this period.
CARD PAYMENTS ONLY.
Our Bookings Cancellations & T&C's click
https://www.soif.co/_files/ugd/c4417e_d55fd31077184aed8e57de3cb654c57a.pdf

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MarkN

Dined on 7 Mar 2025

Really nice vibe. Good food and wine. Definitely recommend

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Experience

Chicken & Wine Mondays

Experience

Lunch Offer - Main Course & a Glass of Wine - £15.

Experience

Wine Tasting: "The Spaniards"

Firebird

4.7

4.7 (18)

£41 and over

European

Soho

About the restaurant

Firebird is a chic and vibrant open-fire restaurant and wine bar in Soho.
Our kitchen team works closely with local and regional suppliers and farmers to present the freshest meat, seafood, poultry and vegetables. We invite you to experience wood-fired cooking with no tricks or artifice – just the best produce transformed over a custom-made open-fire grill.

Firebird’s wine list, curated by co-owner and sommelier Anna Dolgushina, champions small, natural and biodynamic producers from across Europe, who work their vineyards organically, with respect to nature and soil.
Bottles change frequently with juicy, vibrant and elegant varieties all being accounted for.

The interior designed by DA BUREAU is inspired by a modern Mediterranean mood, whilst shadows and reflections are used to recreate memories of afternoons spent in courtyards on the continent, underneath olive trees sharing food and drink with friends.

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Daniella

Dined 5 days ago

The food was amazing at firebird, none of the dishes were disappointing (and we had a lot of them). The service was attentive but not overbearing, they kept the table clean between each course and were prompt with refilling waters and wine. The atmosphere is cozy, romantic and comfortable. Would definitely recommend!

Quality Wines

4.8

4.8 (322)

£41 and over

European

Clerkenwell

About the restaurant

We take reservations for both lunch and dinner

At dinner the table is yours for 1 hour 45 minutes if you book up to and including 7pm. Any time after that, it’s yours for the evening

Please note: reservations are for dining from our menu and bookings are predominantly seated at bar stools

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Julia

Dined 4 days ago

Yummy food and immaculate vibes

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Experience

The large table

Experience

The large table for express lunch

The Delaunay

4.6

4.6 (3199)

£26 to £40

European

Covent Garden

About the restaurant

Encapsulating the architectural elegance and history of Vienna and wider Central-Europe, The Delaunay evokes the spirit of grand café dining, infusing it with a sense of timeless appeal.

Located by Covent Garden and in the heart of theatre-land, the menus celebrate European flavours, often spotlighting lesser-known continental dishes.

Open early for breakfast, through to lunch and dinner, The Delaunay is open seven days a week. Alongside the restaurant, there is also a bar and counter setting. The Counter offers refined but easy dishes for brief stops or takeaway, whilst the bar is a cossetting and imaginative place for pre-or-post dinner cocktails.

If you’re looking to make a booking, please visit the website or call 020 7499 8558.

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Brian

Dined on 5 Mar 2025

A food oasis in the West End where traditional quality and service still exists. It is a pleasure to meet with friends and family in such a pleasant venue.

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Experience

The Delaunay Prix-Fixe

Experience

The Full Haus

Experience

Afternoon Tea at The Delaunay

My Old Dutch - Chelsea

4.6

4.6 (571)

£25 and under

European

Chelsea

About the restaurant

The original pancake house was established in 1958 and situated conveniently between the West End, Covent Garden & the City.

My Old Dutch offers savoury and sweet pancakes as well as a selection of salads, traditional Dutch starters and desserts.

The atmosphere is warm friendly and relaxed which makes it a great place to come for families and kids.

Walk-ins only on Pancake day 21st of February.
Walk-ins and bookings accepted on every other regular day.

Top review

OpenTable Diner

Dined on 4 Mar 2025

Our waiter Alvaro was so lovely, he is welcoming friendly and funny. He mentioned he has been working a long shift and we were so impressed he was so bubbly and kind. We looking forward to seeing him again! :)

Little Duck The Picklery

4.7

4.7 (120)

£41 and over

European

Dalston

About the restaurant

A restaurant, wine bar and fermenting kitchen - we're open for lunch Wednesdays to Sundays and dinner all week.

Our menu changes monthly and our cooking is simple and seasonal. It's here we make all our seasonal ferments, pickles and drinks - all of which you can buy ready jarred from our fridge.

Our large kitchen counter is the centrepiece, and you’re invited to grab a seat, order something to eat and enjoy the workings of life in our kitchen. In the evening, the lights go down, dinner is served and you can enjoy wines by the glass and bottle from our ever-changing wine list of natural and biodynamic wines.

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Laura

Dined on 6 Mar 2025

I am so sad I did not take any photos to show everyone I meet in the next weeks what probably was my favorite meal of 2025. The ambiance in this restaurant is outstanding and you can truly feel the attention to detail that goes into every element even beyond the food itself, this also might possibly be the best lit restaurant I have been in a while. Being sat directly in front of the chefs felt like the best seat in the house, there is something incredibly joyous watching the whole process of someone taking so much care to prepare a dish and then seeing it make its way to your table. Service is incredibly welcoming, there are delicious wines by the glass and just one look at the wine list makes you plan your next visit. House non alcoholic drinks are not to be missed as well and their bright acidity pairs well with the food without overpowering it. Perfect sourdough, expertly fermented golden kimchi, what can only be described as an elegant take on cod crudo with an incredibly well balanced amount of aromatics. Every dish works together with the next while no two things seem like they’re from the same universe. Cuttle fish is served warm, hearty, comforting, melt in your mouth chickpeas, sauce that makes you order more bread, fare la scarpetta for every plate at the end, almost an additional course in itself after you finish the main event, how could you not. We only tried one dessert and I will probably never come close to conveying how much it genuinely tasted like sourdough and jam while actually being two scoops of ice cream. Thank you so much for everything, whenever I’m back in London I will definitely plan my schedule around coming here again.

My Old Dutch - Holborn

4.4

4.4 (1051)

£25 and under

European

Holborn

About the restaurant

Top review

Janet

Dined on 3 Mar 2025

Food was delicious, the staff were friendly and welcoming, really good place, would definitely go back

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