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If you’re stuck on where to book for Valentine’s Day in London, these are the most romantic restaurants in the city. 

Valentine’s Day in London calls for romance, indulgence, and unforgettable dining experiences. Whether you’re planning an intimate candlelit dinner for two, a night with sprawling rooftop views, or a Michelin-starred evening, the city has no shortage of places to mark the occasion.

Consider this your go-to guide to the best Valentine’s Day restaurants in the capital, from French fine dining and classic tasting menus to more playful, contemporary offerings.

The Best Restaurants in London for Valentine’s Day

Hélène Darroze at The Connaught

Hélène Darroze at The Connaught is celebrating Valentine’s Day in London with a special menu, showcasing the best of fine French dining and fresh British ingredients.

The meal begins with caviar paired with sea urchin and dashi jelly, continuing with indulgent dishes such as black truffle with cacklebean egg, Dover sole from Newlyn in Cornwall, and veal from Corrèze, France.

Dessert comes in two parts: rhubarb and chocolate courses. And while at The Connaught, why not surprise your loved one by booking one of the hotel’s fabulous suites for the evening? Our favorite is The Apartment, with The Mews a close second.

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The Lecture Room & Library, Sketch

Sketch thrives on special occasions, and Valentine’s Day is no exception. Expect dreamy décor and artistic installations in tribute to St Valentine.

As Valentine’s Day 2026 falls on a weekend, The Lecture Room & Library will offer special set menus for lunch and dinner. Lunch features five courses with half a bottle of Laurent Perrier Grand Siècle per guest, while dinner is a six-course tasting menu accompanied by half a bottle of Dom Pérignon 2017.

In the evening, the three-Michelin-star restaurant will host a musical soirée with opera, operetta, and musical performances by the London Festival Opera.

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Kioku by Endo

Kioku by Endo, the Japanese restaurant atop the Old War Office, is marking Valentine’s Day with a specially curated tasting menu. Opt for a daytime lunch or an evening reservation with impressive nighttime views of London.

The dinner tasting menu highlights Kioku’s finest dishes, including lobster, wagyu, and yellowtail, with a welcome drink on arrival.

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Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester

For a truly indulgent romantic dinner, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester offers candlelit intimacy paired with three-Michelin-star cuisine and impeccable British service.

On February 14, the elegant restaurant will serve a five-course tasting menu for two, which can be paired with a glass or bottle of rosé champagne. Highlights include hand-dived scallops with caviar and beef fillet with Périgord truffle.

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Aqua Shard

For dinner with a view, book a table at Aqua, perched on the 31st floor of The Shard, the UK’s tallest building. The Valentine’s Day set menu complements their usual à la carte offerings.

The three-course menu features truffle risotto, wild halibut, or beef fillet with truffle mash, served with a sparkling glass of Veuve Clicquot. As an extra treat, Aqua has partnered with British jewelry brand Dinny Hall on a limited-edition chocolate dessert. Inspired by Dinny Hall’s ruby gemstone jewelry, the dessert layers white chocolate, yogurt, vanilla cheesecake, and pickled English rose petals.

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Mauro Colagreco

Michelin-starred Mauro Colagreco at Raffles London at The OWO will offer a six-course tasting menu for Valentine’s Day. Dishes lean British and are paired with Billecart-Salmon rosé champagne.

Expect fresh seafood like oysters and grilled monkfish, as well as unique desserts, including black lemon ice cream with ginger foam. For a memorable twist, graphologist Emma Bache will provide handwriting-based compatibility readings throughout the evening.

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Dovetale

The 1 Hotel Mayfair is one of the neighborhood’s trendier five-star spots, blending upscale luxury with a contemporary edge. Dovetale, the hotel’s signature restaurant, mirrors this vibe, making it a lively choice for Valentine’s.

From February 13-15, Chef Tom Sellers will serve a four-course menu. Starters include panko-fried oysters with blood orange, fennel, and pink peppercorn, or dressed Dorset crab for two with brown crab waffles.

The main features a limited-edition Valentine’s special, ‘Hunter’s Chicken,’ with morel and wild garlic stuffing, foie gras jus, potatoes, and Caesar salad. Dessert highlights the ‘Lovebocker,’ a V-Day-inspired twist on Dovetale’s famous knickerbocker sundae with raspberry cream and rhubarb sorbet.

Dinner can be enjoyed on the hotel’s winter terrace by the fire, with a resident DJ setting a romantic, relaxed ambiance.

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Holborn Dining Room at Rosewood London

For a hearty Valentine’s meal, Rosewood London’s Holborn Dining Room offers limited-edition pies.

The Art Deco dining room will serve a lobster and scallop pie for mains and a raspberry pie for dessert, topped with a heart-shaped lattice lid for a picture-perfect moment.

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Trishna

A late-night stroll through twinkling Marylebone sets the scene for romance, and Trishna, the neighborhood’s Michelin-starred Indian restaurant, is perfect for celebrating a special day.

On February 14, Trishna will showcase the vibrant coastal cuisine of western India through a five-course tasting menu, including favorites like half lobster cafreal and tandoori lamb chop, along with special plates such as Malabar crab cutlets paired with Oscietra caviar.

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How we chose the best Valentine’s Day restaurants in LondonEach restaurant featured is independently selected by Elite Traveler’s editors, informed by first-hand experience where possible and rigorous, in-depth research where not. Our curation spans the world’s most revered luxury destinations alongside in-the-know addresses, each chosen for its uncompromising standards and exceptional service.

From Scandinavian classics and performance luxury, these are five menswear brands shaping how men will dress in 2026. 

The menswear world has often been touted for its slow pace, favoring more timeless silhouettes, traditional and artisanal techniques, and less trend-led collections over womenswear. 

But the sheer number of catwalk shows – let alone the 750 stalls at trade fair Pitti Uomo – undertaken across Milan and Paris last month proves that the menswear industry is a bustling one, and shouldn’t be dismissed as any less buzzy.

While new brands may spring up all the more regularly in the sister sector, new collaborations, pop-ups, and brand expansions mean there’s plenty of reason to keep your eyes on what’s happening in menswear. On that note, find the five brands we’re watching this year for good reason.

Rubato

Since launching in 2018, Rubato has quickly established itself as the brand to shop for Ivy League designs instilled with Scandi sensibility. The founders, Oliver Dannefalk and Carl Pers, take inspiration from 1920s to 1960s workwear for their refined, timeless collections, which are gaining momentum outside of the brand’s Swedish homeland via pop-ups in London and New York. 

Unfortunately for the menswear heads who like to gatekeep, the brand’s growth in international retail guarantees plenty more fans. Quality and desirability are confirmed when trying their products for the first time; lambs wool crewnecks or classic cut chinos are the type of garments you’ll become addicted to wearing. 

Auralee

Despite a decade in business, only in the last few years has Auralee started to hit the mainstream – and by mainstream, I mean the style crowd that elevates IYKYK brands into international successes. 

Now, Auralee is one of the star events on the Paris Fashion Week calendar, as season after season, founder Ryota Iwai presents unpretentious clothes in a variety of wondrous pastel hues. Luxury retailers immediately put in their orders, and critics continue to marvel at Iwai’s talent for making simple pieces feel special. Such demand has seen Auralee partner with New Balance, Tekla, and Kith on sell-out collaborations. I suspect the brand’s popularity will be that of The Row within womenswear, garnering a cult-like following.  

Derrick

While you still could describe this brand as fledging, its traction is growing. The founder, Luke Derrick, graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2021, and has become a name on the London Fashion Week scene for his contemporary, practical, and utilitarian approach to tailoring. 

Despite training at the likes of Brioni, Dunhill, and Savile Row institutions, his suits have taken a gorpcore direction, designed for the man who wants to dress smartly but without too many traditional connotations. Celebrity fans come in the likes of Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Matthew Goode.

Ghiaia Cashmere 

Sometimes, knitwear brands can feel a bit antiquated, as if their focus on exquisite craft has stopped them from remembering that they’re marking pieces for a contemporary shopper. That’s certainly not the case for Ghiaia. While pieces are still made in a family-run facility in Italy, Ghiaia knits have a touch of Californian flair. 

Davide Baroncini founded the brand in 2019, and it’s now stocked at luxury retailers like Mr Porter, has its own bricks and mortar store in San Marino, California, and has been endorsed by celebrities like Kevin Costner. The brand has expanded to present a full ready-to-wear offering, including cashmere blazers, suede hiking boots, and cotton sweatshirts.

Sease

In 2019, Franco and Giacomo Loro Piana decided to start a lifestyle brand that would combine the luxurious quality synonymous with their surname, with performance pieces made for the slopes and sea. 

Seven years later, and the brand is expanding into new sports. Last year, they unveiled a tennis-centred capsule at Milan Fashion Week, and last December, the brand was ​​the main sponsor of Automobili Amos at the historic East African Safari Rally race. That exploration of activities has naturally influenced the garments, too. Looks that were originally ski or sailing-inspired now also take notes from pieces worn on the courts and tracks. 

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No longer the least glamorous part of our plate, fiber has had a glow-up. We dissect the rituals of the fiber-forward using it to subtly transform their lives. 

This decade, fiber dethroned protein as the most talked about food group, shedding its unsexy reputation to spark viral movements and form sophisticated supplement formulas for the lifestyle vanguard. But while such competitive connotations of diets can be dangerous (bottom line: balance is still best), there’s good reason fiber’s rapidly becoming the center of wellness science. Influencing central longevity markers, fiber acts as a key regulator of gut, metabolic, hormonal, and brain health.

“Fermented by gut microbes, fiber produces short-chain fatty acids that strengthen the gut lining, reduce inflammation, and support immune and brain signaling through the gut–brain axis,” explains nutritional therapist and founder of GP Nutrition Gabriela Peacock. “By slowing digestion and glucose absorption, fiber stabilizes blood sugar, enhancing satiety, supporting weight management, and reducing metabolic stress. It also aids hormonal balance by improving estrogen clearance and insulin sensitivity, with visible benefits for skin health.”

That’s not all. “Over time, higher and more diverse fiber intake is consistently linked to lower inflammation, reduced disease risk, and improved longevity,” she continues, “positioning fiber as a foundational nutrient that influences multiple systems at once”. The only problem, typically, is that most of us aren’t getting enough. 

In the U.S., the recommended goal is to eat at least 25-to-30g of fiber per day, but the average daily intake is ~15g, which is roughly half. Furthermore, that stat may be lower for the increasing number of GLP-1 users, considering their reduced appetite and caloric cutback (somewhat ironic, given how fiber has been marketed as ‘nature’s Ozempic’). 

But before we all start ‘fibermaxxing’ like health influencers – building meals around fruits, veg, legumes, wholegrains, nuts, and seeds, and supplementing with inulin and psyllium to reach an even higher intake – be mindful that shock outperforms nuance online. 

“Although most people would benefit from eating more fiber, I’m not a fan of ‘fibermaxxing’,” Maeve Hanan, Registered Dietitian and Founder of Dietetically Speaking tells us of the trend. “Rapidly increasing fiber intake, or consuming excessive amounts, can lead to digestive symptoms such as bloating, gas, cramps, or constipation, particularly if fluid intake is inadequate,” she explains.

Overloading on fiber can also displace other important nutrients, she adds, and using high-fiber foods purely to bulk meals and restrict calories is a recognized disordered eating behaviour. “If fiber intake becomes something to obsessively track or optimize, it risks doing more harm than good and can negatively affect your relationship with food.”

Both experts highlight some rituals of the fiber-forward as sensible ways to reach goals without getting carried away. Firstly, centering meals around a variety of plant foods (“different plants provide different types of fiber” confirms Hanan), and finding ways to make any meal or snack more fiber-rich, by opting for wholegrain versions of breads, pastas, and rice, and regularly adding in mixed nuts and seeds.

Secondly, Peacock says to front-load fiber earlier in the day. “This supports better blood glucose control because insulin sensitivity is higher and fiber slows carbohydrate absorption,” she explains. Also, “fiber is better tolerated earlier when gut motility is higher, supporting digestive comfort and regularity”. Aligning these habits with good hydration and daily movement helps fiber do its job effectively, the experts concur. 

Graduating beyond the basics, the future of fiber will be more personalized and precise, Peacock notes, displacing one-size-fits-all recommendations. “As microbiome science advances, we’re likely to see fiber matched to individual gut profiles, alongside the development of targeted or ‘designer’ fibers intended to support specific metabolic or inflammatory outcomes.” Importantly, this will complement rather than replace whole foods, she adds, “shifting the focus from fiber quantity to fiber intelligence”. 

Hanan agrees, noting how rapid expansion of research into fiber and the gut microbiome will continue, “particularly around how different fibers interact with different microbial profiles”. However, while personalized nutrition based on gut testing is likely to become more visible and heavily marketed, “it isn’t yet a reliable or robust tool for making health recommendations with confidence,” the dietician says. 

Meanwhile, expect to see more fiber-enriched products on the market (increasingly speaking to different types of fiber – such as resistant starches or beta-glucans), but beware of the bandwagon. “While innovation is exciting, the core message is unlikely to change,” continues Hanan. “Most people will benefit most from increasing fiber through a diverse range of whole plant foods rather than relying on supplements or highly engineered products,” she emphasizes. Food for thought. 

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