Spring

Top choice in The West End


White walls, ball chandeliers and columns are offset by the odd blossom in this restored Victorian drawing room in Somerset House. Award-winning Australian chef Skye Gyngell leads a team dedicated to sustainability – no single-use plastic and an early-evening scratch menu (£25 for three courses) using food that would otherwise be wasted. Desserts are legendary.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby The West End attractions

1. Somerset House

0.02 MILES

Designed in 1775 for government departments and royal societies – perhaps the world's first office block – Somerset House now contains galleries,…

2. London Film Museum

0.15 MILES

Dedicated solely to the British film industry, the London Film Museum has a heavy focus on the James Bond franchise. You'll see 007 vehicles (more than…

3. London Transport Museum

0.15 MILES

Housed in Covent Garden's former flower-market building, this captivating museum looks at how London developed as a result of better transport. It's…

4. Bush House

0.15 MILES

Home of the BBC World Service for more than 70 years, this iconic building at the southern end of Kingsway was built between 1923 and 1935. It has been…

5. Covent Garden Piazza

0.22 MILES

London’s wholesale fruit-and-vegetable market until 1974 is now mostly the preserve of visitors, who flock here to shop among the quaint Italian-style…

6. St Paul’s Church

0.23 MILES

When the Earl of Bedford commissioned Inigo Jones to design Covent Garden Piazza, he asked for a simple church 'not much better than a barn'; the…

7. The Strand

0.24 MILES

In the late 12th century, nobles built houses of stone with gardens along the 'shore' (ie strand) of the Thames. The Strand linked Westminster, the seat…

8. St Clement Danes

0.25 MILES

Christopher Wren designed the original church here in 1682, but only the walls and a steeple added by James Gibbs in 1719 survived bombing in 1941; the…