Updated on March 5th, 2024
AD – Sponsored | With spring just around the corner, I wanted to share my top 5 restaurants I want to visit in London including for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner. Also, since I am a vegetarian, all the restaurants offer vegetarian options and they can be booked through SquareMeal.
1. Breakfast at Riding House Café
The Riding House Café has a delicious breakfast menu with pancakes, hollandaise, sides, and more. Several of the vegetarian options I would love to try are the avocado and chard florentine and the deep dish pancakes with berries and cream. The cafe also serves brunch on the weekends including a vegetarian Sunday roast with truffled portobello and sweet potato wellington. The cafe has a lunch and dinner menu as well, but I would love to visit for breakfast.
2. Lunch at Avobar
Avobar is located in Covent Garden, however, they will be opening a new location in London. At Avobar, every dish features avocados from starters including vegan tacos with roasted sweet potato and avocado to a smashed chili avocado toast. They also have an avocado bun burger with a sweet potato and red lentil patty and various avocado desserts from avocado brownies to matcha pancakes with caramelized banana and avocado butter. Also, all their avocados are ethically and sustainably sourced where the farmers are paid fair wages and are Rainforest Alliance certified. I love avocados, so Avobar is definitely on my list of restaurants I want to visit.
3. Afternoon Tea at The Rubens at the Palace
Of course, I had to include a restaurant for afternoon tea. The Rubens hotel is located opposite Buckingham Palace and they serve tea in the Palace Lounge, which overlooks the Royal Mews. They offer both a vegetarian and a vegan afternoon tea menu with sandwiches like a BLT with plant-based bacon as well as scones and pastries including a chai latte cheesecake and a raspberry and pistachio tart. They also have a prince and princess afternoon tea menu with kid-friendly sandwiches and pastries, which would be perfect for my daughter too.
4. Dinner at Sticks ‘N’ Sushi
Sticks ‘N’ Sushi is a Danish-based chain that has since expanded to England with various locations in London including Covent Garden, Soho, and Victoria. They offer sushi a la carte as well as menus including the Greenkeeper menu that comes with edamame, grilled broccoli, seaweed salad, garden roll maki, portobello mushroom, avocado, and inari nigiri, and oyster mushroom and sweet potato sticks. Sushi is one of my favorite meals and my daughter loves sushi too, and they have a kid’s menu that is perfect for her with salmon nigiri, cucumber hosomaki, chicken meatballs, and rice, so I definitely want to visit Sticks ‘N’ Sushi.
5. Vegan Meal at Tendril
Since I am vegetarian, I thought it would be nice to visit a restaurant where I could potentially eat everything on the menu and I do not have to search for the vegetarian meals. Tendril, is a mostly vegan restaurant in that most of the meals are plant-based, but there are a few with cheese. They have an a la carte menu and a sample discovery menu for lunch and dinner, which I would love to try. I would also love to try some of the a la carte options including the corn tostada with broad beans and pico de gallo, the purple sweet potatoes, and the ratatouille.
These all look like great places to experience and try their menus! This post just makes me want to try all the foods ha ha! Thank you for sharing the restaurants you would like to visit!
Lauren
Haha you’re welcome!
I have never heard of all these places but each and every one looks so unique and filled with delicious foods! I hope you get to visit these places and enjoy them!
I agree they all look like they have delicious food! Thanks!
These are such great picks! I’m so excited to try new places in the spring, it’s been so long since I’ve eaten out because of the pandemic. Riding House Cafe sounds amazing, nothing beats a good brunch spot! I’ve never tried a place for afternoon tea, but The Rubens sounds fantastic. Thank you for sharing these amazing spots!
Thanks! It feels like forever since I’ve eaten out too. I agree Riding House Cafe sounds amazing & I’ve never been to a restaurant for afternoon tea either, so it would be fun to do!
Oh, all of these sound amazing! I really like the afternoon tea available at The Rubans (hello plant-based bacon)! Thanks for sharing these places!
I agree! I love that they have vegan & vegetarian menus & I want to try their plant-based bacon!
I love a good afternoon tea. All great suggestions.
Thanks!
To be honest I’d like to visit all of these, their food looks absolutely delicious! You’ve picked some great venues, I’m spoilt for choice 🙂
I’m happy you approve of my choices haha & yes their food looks delicious!
The afternoon tea and the sushi place sound right up my street! I haven’t had sushi in ages so I’m definitely craving it right now!
Haha sushi is delicious & I hope you can get some soon!
Omg! These restaurants look so lovely. Reading your post makes me wish I’m in UK now. Thank for sharing.
I agree they look lovely! You’re welcome!
The desserts at afternoon tea look amazing!
I agree!
These restaurants look great!
I agree!
These restaurants look great and I can see why you would love to visit them! x
Lucy | http://www.lucymary.co.uk
I agree they look great!
Lovely post but I want to visit those restaurants as well!!! Thank you for sharing!!
Love and Wellness
Thank you! That’s awesome you would like to visit them too!
These all sound like delicious places! I like to have a restaurant where I know I can comfortably order and eat anything on the menu! Thank you for sharing.
Soffy
I agree! & it’s always a treat to go to a restaurant & not be restricted in your choices of what to eat!