Eat out for under £60: the cheapest Michelin-starred menus in London

London is an costly city. Increasingly so. Those with ambitions to dine out, and dine well, mightiness autumn foul of purse-walloping situations. But this request not beryllium the case, adjacent erstwhile stepping into the Michelin-starred arena.

There are plentifulness of lauded restaurants successful municipality that connection affordable options, mostly astatine luncheon but occasionally for dinner, wherever menus onshore astatine £60 oregon little but fulfill overmuch the aforesaid arsenic immoderate drawn-out 10 courses.

A fistful of recently anointed restaurants successful the 2025 Michelin Guide person followed others successful dealing successful budget-friendly deals. Granted, a vessel oregon much of vino and work mightiness crook the screw — arsenic immoderate concern would anticipation — but for sub-£60 options (at the precise least, a sheet of nutrient and a solid of something) here’s wherever to look.

There was a clip erstwhile dishes specified arsenic sinasir and akara were mostly chartless to a large fig of radical successful London. Today they are being introduced to much diners each day. A keener consciousness of West African food present is down to restaurants similar Chishuru, which started beingness successful Brixton successful 2021 and is present recovered successful the West End. At past years Michelin announcement, chef-founder Adejoké Bakare became the archetypal achromatic pistillate successful the UK to triumph a Michelin star, and anyone with an involvement successful nutrient should marque usage of the luncheon menu: 3 courses for conscionable £45. 

Gymkhana is the jewel successful the JKS crown acknowledgment to its 2 Michelin stars. Good luck dining determination for £60. At Trishna, inactive plump with 1 star, it is wholly possible: a three-course acceptable paper of modern, coastal Indian cooking comes successful astatine fractional a ton (and 4 courses are conscionable £55, by the way) and brings a wealthiness of dishes that alteration with the season. The likes of squid and shrimp with curry leaves, earthy mango and coconut chutney, and chickenhearted with capsicum and cashews are exceptionally done. 

The AngloThai communicative is the worldly of lore. Chef John Chantarasak has spent much than six years finessing and fine-tuning his British-and-Thai-inflected food, hence the name, which successful 2025 earned him a coveted Michelin star. The luncheon clip paper is concise astatine 5 courses and flows from reddish curry tempura and Carlingford oysters to pork chops with smoked chilli relish. Good worth too, astatine £55.

The cooking astatine Luca, 1 of a fig of distinctly modern Italian restaurants successful London today, is excellent. And that is wherefore the explicit luncheon paper is specified bully value. Two courses for £32, oregon 3 for £38 are to beryllium enjoyed successful the barroom alternatively than the eating room. Dishes shimmy courteously from fried artichokes with hen of the woods to Cornish haddock with crushed peas, Jersey Royals and salsa verde. These are doubtless enactment connected to satisfy, but besides to lure diners to instrumentality and to research the afloat paper much formally. Either way, a joy.

Cornus feels peculiarly plush Michelin fodder: the benignant of happening built for a star. And truthful it was to be, receiving 1 successful 2025 conscionable six months oregon truthful aft opening. The tasting paper and a la carte are spendy things, but look retired for the much approachable £55 acceptable lunch. Three people astatine this level and astatine this terms constituent is simply a rarity and dishes of Guinea fowl farci with chanterelles and boudin noir followed by a strawberry and Yorkshire rhubarb fool consciousness plentifulness generous.

Just 2 years ago, Fitzrovia edifice The Ninth was stricken by fire, soon forced to adjacent temporarily. Thankfully, cook Jun Tanaka and squad returned successful aboriginal 2023, bringing their ain marque of relaxed and casual Michelin-starred hospitality. The Ninth is arsenic pleasing arsenic ever, serving elemental — to a constituent — French and Mediterranean cooking. And it is affordable: a acceptable luncheon paper is conscionable £30 for 2 courses, £35 for three. On offer, the likes of risotto al salto and reddish mullet tempura with courgettes and plucky aioli. 

Chiswick is simply a postcode that tin enactment a Michelin-starred, neighbourhood spot with fervour. La Trompette serves W4 splendidly. Here, a French edifice buoyant with joie de vivre, and a acceptable luncheon paper for £39.50, adjacent with house-made sourdough breadstuff preceding and petit fours thereafter. On the menu, the likes of pappardelle of dilatory cooked lamb, oversea bass with cockles and beurre blanc, and a lukewarm cocoa brownie. Such accessibility is uncommon successful London today. 

As it stands, this could beryllium London’s astir casual Michelin-starred restaurant. It doesn’t person a tasting menu, it’s an unfastened kitchen, determination are nary tablecloths and radical look to bask the Greek-inspired dishes arsenic a conveyance for a raucous nighttime retired (as opposed to a solemn contemplation of Mediterranean cuisine). Based connected 2 radical having dinner, the a la carte doesn’t request excessively overmuch cajoling to travel successful nether budget: commencement with laffa and blistery murphy crisps earlier labneh and tarama dips, past the seabass crudo and trout sashimi, followed by mussels saganaki oregon an oxtail giouvetsi oregon the full john dory and £60 a caput volition beryllium much than enough. You conscionable person to beryllium a spot savvy.

Sneaking successful astatine £1 nether our fund is the acceptable luncheon astatine 64 Goodge Street, 1 of the caller 2025 harvest of Michelin intake. The 3 courses are generous and bold; starters diagnostic quail forestière with condiment albufera and smoked eel vol-au-vent with Lyonnaise onions portion mains of rabbit with condiment moutarde à l'ancienne entice. Optional snacks astatine the commencement should beryllium taken too, if the fund tin accommodate, if not, luxuriate successful this calm Fitzrovia space.

London’s oldest Indian edifice shouldn’t request immoderate introduction. Founded successful 1926 by Edward Palmer, an Anglo-Indian, Veeraswamy was awarded a Michelin prima 90 years later, successful 2016. The archetypal menu, overseen by Palmer, was partially inspired by his great-grandmother, an Indian princess; contiguous it blends the aged and new, Indian and Anglo-Indian, and stands arsenic an important portion of London history. Much mightiness beryllium spent astatine Veeraswamy, but the acceptable play luncheon paper — 2 courses for £42, 3 for £48 — would beryllium an affordable mode to dine. On offer, paneer tikka, seekh kebabs, and gloriously fragrant curries of fish, chicken, lamb. 

In Chelsea, the cook Phil Howard has built a modern European edifice showing signs of becoming an instauration successful Elystan Street. It has held a Michelin prima since 2017 and is beloved of locals arsenic good arsenic those from faraway. The acceptable luncheon and aboriginal evening paper brings 3 courses for £45. Cured trout with apple, kohlrabi and horseradish mightiness precede a tarte good of courgettes, other a saccharine pea velouté whitethorn punctuate a fabulous duck confit. 

Luke Ahearne’s Lita opened to overmuch acclaim past year. Early connected it was wide the edifice would bash well. There’s nary acceptable luncheon oregon tasting paper present and the fire-inflected a la carte is hugely expensive, but it tin beryllium explored, precise moderately, for £60 a head. If alone, person a main of monkfish with fennel, heirloom tomatoes and bouillabaisse and adhd a solid of vino and you won’t request a mortgage; if sharing, past plates similar Dorset surf clams with artichokes alla Romana, Hereford beef with Amalfi citrus and shoestring fries and the larger Cornish lamb with smoked aubergine, Italian courgettes and confit tomatoes could enactment retired comfortably.

Not one, but 2 Michelin stars here. So beryllium warned: you volition get obscurity adjacent the edifice due with lone £60 to spare. But connected Monday nights, the eating country moves speech to marque mode for a vino bar, bistro conception called Labombe. Here determination are dishes to beryllium had, a operation of which volition pb to a repast of affordable and superb design. For example, a lobster rotation astatine £17, a blistery lingua bun — 1 of the finest sandwiches successful London — for £15. Either with a sheet of £8.50 French fries would beryllium a marvellous mode to commencement the week. Cooking is by Jonny Lake, erstwhile of The Fat Duck; wines by maestro sommelier Isa Bal.