Roast Dinners in London

Welcome to the best guide to the 10 best roast dinners in London by the best roast dinner reviewer and worst political commentator that London has.

EVER. Well, unless you liked last year’s guide more. Google certainly liked it.

So, in case you are new here. I’m Lord Gravy. I have a roast dinner almost every Sunday and have now clocked up over 350 reviews…I have actually eaten at all the places featured below, and not just scraped them from lists on other websites.

All of my reviews are anonymous, no grifting, no begging for freebies – nobody knows I’m going, nobody knows I’m there. I don’t get extra roast potatoes or the selected juiciest cut of the meat, no gawping face videos being recorded, no “just happening to be there” when they’ve made extra effort. Every place that is reviewed gets equal treatment, as far as I can.

You could just look at my league of roasts or my map to find the nearest good one to you.

Or you can enjoy my curated list of the 10 places where I am most confident you can get one of the best roast dinners in London. Shall we start?

10. The Railway, Teddington

The first of 4 new entries for 2025 – ooh I feel like Bruno Brookes. He wasn’t one of those Radio One DJs, was he?

My boss recommended The Railway in Teddington to me – yes, my boss knows about this blog, and yes, I still have a job. Despite AI doing everything for me nowadays, and me just clicking “keep” every 5 minutes.

Rather phallic presentation, and this roast had the balls – thick, meaty gravy, proper roast potatoes actually cooked on the same day, really tasty lamb, fluffy yorkie.

Teddington is a ballache to get to (unless you live in the south-west) but it really is worth the mission.

Also I want to say that my boss is the best manager ever and deserves a huge pay rise, even more than I do. And not just for this excellent recommendation.

9. The Devonshire, Soho

The Devonshire is quite possibly the most hyped pub in the history of London, ever – and this is confirmed by a graph from ChatGPT:

If that doesn’t make it factual, I don’t know what is.

I could start the next sentence with some variation of “so is it worth the hype…” but it’s the 9th best roast dinner I’ve ever had in London, so I think you can agree it is.

Gloriously rich gravy, supremely tender beef and really good veg, not to mention it being a really gorgeous pub – the roast potatoes were actually too crispy on our visit, but I suspect they are often close to perfect.

Oh and to book a table, you need to be on their website at 10:30am on a Thursday. 10:40am – too late. And try booking a table on the quarter/three-quarter hour, as there will be less competition for that timeslot.

8. The Red Lion & Sun, Highgate

Unfortunately if you search Google for the worst roast dinner in London, it lists The Red Lion & Sun on the AI overview – and this is my AI’s fault.

Because, yes, I gave it an award for the worst plate in 2023. Apparently AI doesn’t understand that I might criticise crockery yet still love what was on that plate.

And what was on the plate? Totally divine suckling pig (though you do need to order this when booking your table).

The roast potatoes were excellent and the jus grew on me – The Red Lion & Sun is a rather excellent pub, and remains in my top 10 for roast dinners.

Plus, I doubt those small plates made another appearance on the Sunday, if the landlord, Heath, had anything to do with it.

7. Blacklock, Canary Wharf

Am I really writing about Blacklock twice in the same best roast dinners in London list? Though maybe I should be thankful that Blacklock in Soho burnt the Yorkshire pudding, otherwise it would be 3 times.

I’m yet to get a really good picture of a Blacklock roast dinner, despite having been to 4 of their 5 branches – were I a proper influencer then I’d be in the kitchen with the best light, but I’m just some bloke who enjoys a roast dinner. Gosh, I’m so thankful I never started a burger blog.

Anyway, this is the all-in at Blacklock in Canary Wharf, for two people, and it delivered as expected – addictive gravy, pork loin that is illegally tender, banging roasties…so much to love here.

Again, it’s another one that needs booking well in advance, normally 6-8 weeks ahead would be the minimum if you want a table around lunchtime – you might get a table later in the day at 3-4 weeks in advance.

But also they do sometimes have space for walk-ins, it can be worth a try on the day – but do have a back-up plan!

6. The Larkshall, Chingford

The Larkshall was a huge surprise to me, I’d heard they did really good BBQ meats in the summer, but it’s a Young’s pub – and most (not all) Young’s pubs just bang out the same guff from central office, with chefs that are just doing a job, as opposed to doing anything special.

Chingford isn’t exactly the easiest place in London to get to either, it has an Essex vibe to it – especially if you turn up on dog show day, which we inadvertently did, replete with a host shouting “LET’S BE AVIN YA” in Benidorm style.

Yet almost everything on the plate was stunning.

The beef brisket was BBQ heaven, the gravy was meatily gorgeous, the yorkie excellent, roasties and veg good enough.

Plus the sun was shining in their huge garden, people were friendly and there was a million cute dogs. Though I have to stress that the beef brisket was just out of this world, my eyes are watering just thinking about it.

5. The Fox & Pheasant, Chelsea

So none of the top 5 are new for this list – a more sensible person would just copy and paste from the earlier list…maybe I will succumb, but one of the reasons why this blog is the most popular roast dinner reviewing blog in the whole of the world is my stream of consciousness, which on the other side of the pond is what they look for in a president.

Gosh I really wish I could review The Fox And Pheasant again as the roasties on the latest Google reviews look stunning – more so than ours, which were lacking crisp.

However the roasties, like everything else on the plate were not less than very good, the smoky parsnip puree was amazing, they had a great yorkie game and most of the crackling was sexual.

Oh and there were cute dogs in bow ties.

Oh, I’ve just put you off booking, haven’t I? It is Chelsea, darling.

4. Sussex Bar & Restaurant, Soho

Proof that I’m not really an influencer comes with Sussex Bar & Restaurant, Soho, the 4th on my list of best roast dinners in London yet you can still book a table for the coming Sunday.

I have actually been back, whilst “helping” someone research a book on gravy, and still the place was only middlingly busy. And still the roast dinner was excellent. It’s literally in Soho – bang in central London.

So when we were there they were doing a bone marrow yorkie, which really set the standard – though I think that was a special.

Otherwise the pork belly was delicious, roasties fluffy inside, vegetables all really good and the jus went perfectly – even if I would prefer a proper gravy.

Why haven’t you been here yet?

3. The Ladbroke Arms, Holland Park

Remember the days where it reached 40’C (or just a shade under in London, I think)? This was the roast dinner I had on the Sunday just before, and it was pretty mafting then.

And the roast was pretty sensational. By the way…still not copied and pasted from the 2024 version of this post.

I grant you, the gravy was a weird colour – and the tomato-based gravy was pretty much the only thing stopping The Ladbroke Arms from getting to number one.

The pork belly was to die in a heatwave for, I don’t think I will ever have such amazing pork belly – unimprovably superb.

Possibly the best cabbage of my life, my accomplice said they were the best roast potatoes of her life – this is just an excellent roast dinner, and only one of three roast dinners to ever score above a 9 out of 10. Yeah, I have high standards.

2. The Harwood Arms, Fulham

Michelin star pub does Michelin star roast – though I highly doubt that the Michelin guy came for a roast dinner. Otherwise someone from Michelin would have been in touch to hire my anonymity skills.

The Harwood Arms is another one of those places that you have to be really on the ball to book, they release their tables (I think) 90 days in advance, and you should really try to book on that 90th day beforehand…certainly 85 days beforehand and you probably ain’t getting a table.

Though pro tip – they also do bank holiday Monday roasts, and these are not as hard to book.

Anyway, we ordered the Cote De Boeuf to share and it was immense, like a totally orgasmic cut of beef. Though also it came with some short rib, and then there was braised rib inside the Yorkshire pudding.

Yeah, they went big on beef at The Harwood Arms. The vegetables were also excellent and really uniquely flavoured, with crispy golden roast potatoes too.

It does have a price to match the Michelin rating, but also we paid just under £100 each which included dessert, service and a couple of drinks. It really is worth a bit of planning.

1. Blacklock, Shoreditch

Blacklock. Again. Well, Blacklock Shoreditch is going to take some beating – though I’m determined that one day I will find better.

It was my first visit to Blacklock, and they were charm personified – they knew when we wanted extra gravy and brought it to us before we could ask. The staff seemed to love being there (alas not the case at Blacklock in Covent Garden when I went).

The wine was great, the beer was decent…oh…and the roast dinner was…

Superb. The gravy was meat-tastictically gravysexual, the roasties were fresh and crispy on the outside – golden jewels. The yorkie soft and fluffy (if a tad overcooked), the carrots were charred and gorgeously so, the cauliflower cheese was actually cheesey, and just a gorgeous delight.

Oh and all the meats were on point – if not quite as OMG amazing as places like The Larkshall or The Harwood Arms. And then they brought us extra roast potatoes, just because.

It was back in 2019 when I wondered if I should quit, because it would never be bettered. 6 years, 5 Prime Ministers, 3 lockdowns, $5bn worth of Trump corruption later and it still hasn’t been bettered – and most people I speak to that have been to a few Blacklocks have Shoreditch as their favourite too.

And don’t forget the world’s most amazing white chocolate cheesecake (maybe except those in Bilbao).

Let’s hope there is enough reason to update this list of best roast dinners in London in 2026.