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December 02 2024
Get that loving feeling with our pick of the best romantic restaurants in London. Click to find the perfect date night spots in the capital.
The most romantic restaurants in London deliver show-stopping meals, dazzling drinks and an intimate atmosphere with your table for two. These venues create the look the love on your first date, your big proposal or a much-needed kid-free night for a special occasion. These, we think, are the best spots for a romantic dinner in London.
This small restaurant has a big reputation as an effortlessly romantic restaurant. Kudu is the flagship restaurant in a collection of family-run drinking and dining venues in Peckham. Enter through thick pink curtains into a small contemporary dining room with low lighting. The South African wines are the perfect complement for the delicate South African dishes and sharing plates that change with the seasons. Try the braai broodjies (a grilled toastie) and scallop potjie. The service is friendly and attentive, and if you want a post-meal cocktail, pop over the road to Smokey Kudu. This hidden gem is probably one of the most romantic restaurants in London.
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A blossom-filled interior with spectacular rooftop views over London: this is Tattu. This restaurant is a modern Chinese jewel at the top of the Now Building on Charing Cross Road. Four distinct dining spaces surround a beautiful courtyard garden, and the two-person set sharing menu celebrates balanced flavours over four courses. Dine on prawn and truffle cracker, pulled-pork gyoza and mooncakes. With food as photo worthy as the venue, Tattu is one of the most romantic rooftop restaurants in London and perfect for a special occasion.
Reserve your romantic meal at Tattu
This is one for the Latin lovers. In a former bank in Mayfair’s Berkeley Square, this Latin American restaurant goes big on the lush décor, with plants spilling from everywhere. A live band performs jazz and bossa nova in the main restaurant, with a resident DJ performing in the bar and lounge. Try tequeños from the a la carte menu or hop up to the aquarium-style sushi counter for Japanese–Peruvian sushi. For a night of tropical dishes and tunes in a unique setting, Amazonico offers one of the best date night restaurants in London.
Fall in love with fashionable Sketch for your romantic dinner. London is awash with Insta-worthy restaurants, but Sketch has both style and substance in abundance thanks to its four dining spaces, each offering gorgeous surroundings and a variety of dining. The warm yellow of the Gallery is famous for its weekend afternoon teas. Upstairs in the extravagant and colourful Lecture Room and Library, where the tasting menu of French cuisine has earned three Michelin stars. It’s an indulgent treat designed to impress a romantic partner. Is this the most beautiful restaurant in London? Quite possibly.
London is brimming with romantic dining. Make a weekend of it and spend a night or two with your loved one in one of our Central London hotels with Thistle Marble Arch, Thistle Bloomsbury Park and Thistle Piccadilly close to London’s foodie hot spots.
