Best Restaurants Near Liberty London
14 August 2024 , by Annabelle SpranklenSome of our favourite London dining hotspots can be found just a stone’s throw from the hubbub of Regent Street, from scene-stealing classics where the table cloths are always starch-white and service slick to hot-ticket kitchens pushing the boundaries of sustainability, this is our pick of the best restaurants near Liberty.
The Barley Mow
Whether you’re looking for a mid-shopping trip glass of wine, long, lazy lunch or slap-up dinner, you can’t go wrong with a visit to The Barley Mow. As one of Mayfair’s best pubs, this place has it all. There’s a relaxed vibe downstairs, where drinks can be washed down with Scotch eggs and homemade sausage rolls or hotfoot it upstairs to the restaurant for pie and mash, Brixham Market fish or Cotswolds chicken.
Location: The Barley Mow, 82 Duke Street, London W1K 6JG
Walking time from Liberty: 12 minutes
Apricity
Conscious cooking is the name of the game at Mayfair restaurant Apricity where everything is finger-licking fresh, hyper seasonal, local and low-waste. Before we get onto the food though, we have to mention the interiors - stripped back, rustic-beautiful, you’ll want to move in. Menus depend on what’s available - think Cornish mackerel, Sussex broad beans and pickled gooseberries or Devonshire hogget and Royal Oak farm mange tout, followed by Esmeralda milk chocolate baked mousse.
Location: Apricity, 68 Duke Street, London W1K 6JU
Walking time from Liberty: 13 minutes
123V at Browns
This newly-opened spot, by award-winning vegan chef Alexis Gauthier inside the four-storey Browns boutique, is offering a glorious menu of ‘garden sushi’ - that’s sushi made without fish or meat. Designed by Red Deer studio, 123V has taken over the space previously occupied by Native and the menu is teeming with the likes Thai-style rolls and ramen-like garden bowls, exactly the sort of feel-good food you’re craving. Plus, you can even bring your dog along.
Location: 123V at Browns, 39 Brook Street, London W1K 4JE
Walking time from Liberty: Seven minutes
Mount St. Restaurant
For a reassuringly refined restaurant near Liberty, you can’t help but fall head-over-heels for Mount St. Restaurant. Go past the top-hat-donning doorman and breeze upstairs, next to paintings of Lucien Freud and Matisse and sit down to a menu of decadent British fare - think lobster pies and beef wellington, or roast chicken salad and caramelised shallot and fig tart. And there’s Eton mess and banana souffé to really finish things off. You’ll be dreaming about it for weeks.
Location: Mount St. Restaurant, First Floor, 41-43 Mount Street, London W1K 2RX
Walking time from Liberty: 15 minutes
Scott's
It has one of the most famous pavement terraces in London, white table-clothed spots that are harder to book than Glastonbury tickets but it is Scott’s, after all. Known as a Mayfair institution, this is a restaurant that can turn heads and pull crowds with its sensational seafood menu. Oysters and fruits de mer are the way to go, accompanied by a crisp glass of champagne; or fresh slices of cured salmon with a pang of citrus and seasonal greenery.
Location: Scott's, 20 Mount Street, London W1K 2HE
Walking time from Liberty: 14 minutes
The Connaught Grill
After reopening in 2022, the mighty Connaught Grill has become one of the most talked-about restaurants in town. Not least because it’s inside the Connaught hotel but it also has Jean-Georges Vongerichten at the helm. There’s an open kitchen where British food takes centre stage, from scallops from Scotland to organic Barnsley lamb chops sourced in Dorset. The Sunday lunches, succulent Hereford beef or organic chicken carved tableside on a silver trolley, are legendary too.
Location: The Connaught Grill, 16 Carlos Place, London W1K 2AL
Walking time from Liberty: 12 minutes
Comptoir Café and Wine
All the best cafés transform into sultry wine bars come night and that’s exactly why we adore Comptoir Café and Wine which serves up all your charcuterie board dreams alongside smokey pulled pork buns, croque monsieurs and beef carpaccio salads with a pretty impressive wine list to boot. This place is perfect for lunch or an after-hours spending spree, when it’s romantically lit, with wine-pairing small plates whizzing out of the kitchen.
Location: Comptoir Café and Wine, 21-22 Weighhouse Street, London W1K 5LU
Walking time from Liberty: 12 minutes
Plants by Deliciously Ella
When you’re looking for a plant-based restaurant near Liberty that offers healthy, nutrition-packed dishes, Plants by Deliciously Ella (aka Ella Mills’ café) is always a winner. Whether you fancy chickpea fritters with cucumber yoghurt or butter beans with chilli and cavolo nero, or want to up your vitamin intake with a homemade raw juice or fruity smoothie, there’s heaps of choice. Plus, the vegan desserts - baked cheesecakes, chocolate tortes, mille-feuilles - are worth leaving room for.
Location: Plants by Deliciously Ella, 18 Weighhouse Street, London W1K 5AH
Walking time from Liberty: 12 minutes
Jamavar
For fine-dining Indian food in the heart of Mayfair, you’ll want to make a beeline for Jamavar. This Michelin-starred restaurant offers authentic dishes that take inspiration from across India with a menu created by chef Surender Mohan. The small plates are influenced by the street food market vendors of Northern and Southern India (think Chettinad Chicken Croquettes with cucumber-dill salad and tomato and coconut chutney) while the Old Delhi butter chicken is unmissable.
Location: Jamavar, 8 Mount Street, London W1K 3NF
Walking time from Liberty: 11 minutes
Burger & Lobster Mayfair
It’s hard not to enjoy a meal at the Mayfair branch of Burger & Lobster because it’s impossible to go wrong with a menu offering the finest wild-caught Lobster, sustainably sourced off the coasts of Nova Scotia, Canada or corn-fed Nebraskan beef. Plus, there’s oysters to shuck, buttery lobster rolls, creamy lobster linguine and even plant burgers if neither seafood or meat is on the cards, with sauces like wasabi mayo to give everything a little kick.
Location: Burger & Lobster Mayfair, 29 Clarges Street, London W1J 7EF
Walking time from Liberty: 14 minutes