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Japanese restaurant · Mayfair / West End
Hotel restaurant · Nine Elms / Vauxhall
Sushi restaurant · Soho / West End
Seafood restaurant · Mayfair
Fine dining restaurant · Belgravia / Hyde Park Corner
British restaurant · Mayfair
Greek restaurant · Mayfair
Seafood restaurant · Hackney
Sushi restaurant · Mayfair / West End
This restaurant only seats guests who have booked ahead, no walk-ins. We list London's reservations required restaurants above.
Book as early as you can, ideally a week or more ahead for weekend evenings, since restaurants with this tag are usually the ones with the least spare capacity to accommodate late requests.
Unlike Reservations or Reservations Recommended, this means walk-ins generally won't be seated at all, or only if there happens to be a last-minute cancellation. It's most common at smaller, high-demand or fine dining venues.
Among the 9 restaurants we list with reservations required, the highest concentration is in Westminster (8), City of London (2), Hackney (2). By cuisine, it's most common among Seafood restaurant (3), Hotel restaurant (2), Event venue (2).
This is most common at London's higher-end seafood restaurants, particularly ones built around a small daily catch or a tasting menu, where the kitchen plans covers around what's actually available that day rather than an open-ended menu.
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Occasionally, but restaurants with this tag generally won't seat walk-ins otherwise, so don't rely on a last-minute cancellation.
This is most common at higher-end seafood restaurants built around a small daily catch or tasting menu, where the kitchen plans covers around what's actually available that day.
9 restaurants in our directory currently list reservations required as a feature, most of them in Westminster (8).
