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Where to eat at and around Claridge's

You are on Brook Street at the Davies Street corner, the northern edge of Mayfair, three minutes from Bond Street station and four from Mount Street. Inside, the hotel has one restaurant, a Foyer that does everything from breakfast to a late menu, and three bars with their own rules. Outside, within ten minutes on foot, is the densest run of serious restaurants in London, and two pubs that do not care who you are.

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Claridge's: Claridge's Bar

Dante Mayfair

Italian-American plates and martinis, New York transplanted

Caffe Dante opened in Greenwich Village in 1915, and Linden Pride and Nathalie Hudson took on the lease at its centenary in 2015 and had it named the world's best bar at the World's 50 Best Bars four years later, which is the reason to care about this room. The pair tested the name at Claridge's as a residency from mid-2025, extended it, then took the space permanently in June 2026 when Claridge's Restaurant closed. Expect the New York carry-overs, burrata, shrimp cocktail, chicken alla diavola, and a martini list that is the actual point. Treat it as a hotel restaurant rather than a reason to cross London, and note that after two changes of tenant in under five years it is too new to have settled.

Book well ahead: tables go weeks out

Claridge's: The dining room under the chandeliers

The Foyer & Reading Room

All-day dining and the afternoon tea the hotel is known for

This is the room people picture when they picture Claridge's, under original art deco mirrors and a Chihuly glass sculpture, with a pianist. Tea is the headline and runs from 95 pounds, 110 with Champagne and 125 with rose, rising over the festive season. It also does breakfast, lunch and dinner, and breakfast is the quietest sitting, before the tea crowd arrives. Book tea weeks out, particularly for a weekend.

Book well ahead: tables go weeks out

The Painter's Room

Onyx-topped art deco cocktail bar with an Annie Morris mural

Bryan O'Sullivan built this one in 2021 from pink onyx and peach glass, with a monochrome mural by Annie Morris and a skylight that does most of the work in daylight. The drinks lean southern European, aperitivo-shaped, with sharing plates alongside. Of the hotel's three bars it is the one to sit in first: Claridge's Bar is the David Collins Studio classic and The Fumoir, going since 1929, is the small dark one you retreat to afterwards.

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Within ten minutes on foot

  • Delfino

    5 min walk

    Mount Street pizzeria dating to 1953 · ££

    The nearest honest plate of food to the hotel door: a pizzeria on Mount Street that its own site dates to 1953. The site gives noon to 10.30pm Monday to Saturday and Sunday closed, and it takes bookings, which is the safe way in on a Friday. Go for a pizza and a glass of red when you have had enough of tasting menus; it is the one address on this list where nobody will notice what you are wearing.

    Reserve ahead121A Mount Street

  • Hélène Darroze at The Connaught

    5 min walk

    Three-star tasting menu, Carlos Place · ££££

    The three stars Claridge's does not have, five minutes away inside its sister hotel. The restaurant's own page describes a seasonal à la carte at lunch and tasting menus at dinner, and guide.michelin.com lists it for the 2026 guide as three stars, open Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner and closed Sunday and Monday. Lunch is the cheaper and easier way in. Book as soon as you book the room.

    Book well ahead: tables go weeks outThe Connaught, Carlos Place

  • The Guinea Grill

    6 min walk

    Pub and 1952 silver-service grill · £££

    A Young's pub on a mews behind Berkeley Square with a grill restaurant at the back that its own site dates to 1952 and describes as dry-aged, grass-fed British beef from an open grill. The pub is walk-in only, open 11am to 11pm Monday to Saturday and to 9pm on Sunday, with food from noon to 9pm Monday to Saturday and noon to 7pm on Sunday; book for the restaurant, and note that it asks for children to be twelve or over and serves a Sunday roast from noon until 5pm.

    Reserve ahead30 Bruton Place

  • Scott's

    7 min walk

    Mayfair fish and shellfish institution · £££

    The Mount Street fish restaurant, all oysters, dressed crab and Dover sole under a long bar, with a terrace out front that its own site refuses to promise anyone. Its own site gives noon to 9.15pm Monday to Wednesday, noon to 10pm Thursday to Saturday and noon to 9pm on Sunday, and since May 2025 it admits children under six only at weekend and holiday lunches. Book, and note the terrace cannot be reserved: every reservation guarantees indoor dining only, outside tables go to the oldest request first, and eating outside carries a minimum spend of 75 pounds a head.

    Book well ahead: tables go weeks out20 Mount Street

  • Sketch

    7 min walk

    Tea, all-day parlour, three-star room · £££

    Several restaurants in one Conduit Street townhouse. The Parlour runs all day from 9am to 6pm and takes bookings, with its lunch and bar also open to walk-ins; the Gallery serves afternoon tea from noon to 4pm Monday to Thursday and 11am to 4.30pm Friday to Sunday; the Glade does breakfast from 8am on weekdays; and upstairs the Lecture Room and Library holds three stars in the 2026 guide, lunch Friday and Saturday and dinner Tuesday to Saturday. The cheap way in is a drink in the Parlour; the bars are walk-in.

    Reserve ahead9 Conduit Street

  • The Audley

    8 min walk

    Restored corner pub, art upstairs · ££

    A corner pub at Mount Street and South Audley Street restored around contemporary art, pouring Sambrook's from Battersea alongside London Pride and Guinness, with a short menu of pies, sausages and a Sunday roast. Its own site gives 11am to 11pm Monday to Saturday and to 10.30pm on Sunday, with food from noon to 10pm, and to 9pm on Sundays and bank holidays. Mount St. Restaurant on the first floor is the dressier option under the same roof.

    Walk in41-43 Mount Street

  • Sabor

    10 min walk

    One-star Spanish counter and asador · £££

    Nieves Barragán's Andalucían tapas counter on the ground floor and El Asador upstairs, one star in the 2026 guide on guide.michelin.com. Its own site gives dinner only on Monday from 5.30pm to 10.30pm, lunch from noon to 2.30pm and dinner from 5.30pm Tuesday to Saturday, and no Sunday hours. The counter and El Asador take bookings for up to ten; the bar is first come, first served, which is the way to eat here without planning.

    Reserve ahead35-37 Heddon Street

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Breakfast

Breakfast is not included: every room page lists what a stay includes and it is not there. In the Foyer it runs from 7am to 11am Monday to Saturday and 8am to 11am on Sunday, and the July 2026 menu prices the English at 45 pounds, two eggs at 20 and a breakfast croissant at 25, with a discretionary 15 percent service charge on top. Dante does breakfast daily from 8am to 11am at gentler prices, a full English at 32 and scrambled eggs at 16. The Foyer at eight is the quietest sitting it ever has, before the tea crowd arrives, and it is the reason to eat there once. For the other mornings, Claridge's Bakery, the hotel's own, is open from 8am on weekdays and 9am at weekends, and the Glade at Sketch does breakfast from 8am Monday to Friday.

What to skip

The chain cafés and restaurants along Oxford Street and the Bond Street end of the shopping run, seven minutes north. You are paying Mayfair rent for the same food you can get at any station, and everything above is the same distance in the other direction.

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Good questions about Claridge's

Where can I eat near Claridge's?

You are on Brook Street at the Davies Street corner, the northern edge of Mayfair, three minutes from Bond Street station and four from Mount Street. Inside, the hotel has one restaurant, a Foyer that does everything from breakfast to a late menu, and three bars with their own rules. Outside, within ten minutes on foot, is the densest run of serious restaurants in London, and two pubs that do not care who you are. Delfino, 5 min walk. Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, 5 min walk. The Guinea Grill, 6 min walk.

Where should I eat at Claridge's?

Dante Mayfair. Caffe Dante opened in Greenwich Village in 1915, and Linden Pride and Nathalie Hudson took on the lease at its centenary in 2015 and had it named the world's best bar at the World's 50 Best Bars four years later, which is the reason to care about this room. The pair tested the name at Claridge's as a residency from mid-2025, extended it, then took the space permanently in June 2026 when Claridge's Restaurant closed. Expect the New York carry-overs, burrata, shrimp cocktail, chicken alla diavola, and a martini list that is the actual point. Treat it as a hotel restaurant rather than a reason to cross London, and note that after two changes of tenant in under five years it is too new to have settled.

Our verdict

Claridge's is the London grand hotel that fixed its one real gap, and the spa is now as good a reason to book as the Foyer. Go for the building and the service, and plan your dinners elsewhere.

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Last checked: September 2026

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