4 restaurants open right now
Tapas restaurant · Soho / West End
Thai restaurant · Borough / London Bridge
Asian fusion restaurant · Covent Garden / West End
Cantonese restaurant · Battersea / Nine Elms
You can see the kitchen at work from the dining area. We list London's open kitchen restaurants above.
An open kitchen means the cooking area is visible from the dining room, either fully open or through a pass window, letting diners watch food being prepared rather than it happening entirely out of sight.
If you'd like to sit close to the open kitchen specifically, it's worth requesting that when you book, since those seats are often limited and popular. An open kitchen is a common feature at seafood grills and raw bars, where watching shellfish being shucked or fish being grilled to order is part of the appeal of the venue.
Of the 4 restaurants in our directory offering open kitchen, the highest concentration is in Westminster (3), Southwark (1), City of London (1). By cuisine, it's most common among Thai restaurant (1), Seafood restaurant (1), Tapas restaurant (1).
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Yes, it's worth requesting when you book, since those seats are often limited and popular.
Watching shellfish being shucked or fish grilled to order is part of the appeal at seafood grills and raw bars with this feature.
Westminster has the most, with 3 of the 4 restaurants we list offering open kitchen.
