Looking for the best brunches in London? Look no further, we’ve eaten our way around the capital.
Nothing beats a good old London brunch.
Whether you’re gossiping about what happened on Friday night, or gearing up to go out later on Saturday, there’s nothing better than a casual (or not so casual) brunch date with your friends, and the bottomless brunches in London are some of the best in the world.
This guide includes pretty much every corner of the city, and a surprising number of cuisines. So, whatever your tastes, you’ll find somewhere perfect. It is a reliable birthday booking too.
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Best bottomless brunches in central London
Bon Vivant
Bloomsbury
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Saturdays, 10:30-16:00. £24.95 for bottomless bubbles, bellinis and mimosas, plus a minimum £10 spend per customer. Most brunch mains are £7.95-£9.95.
Bon Vivant is the perfect place to spend way too much of your weekend over a boozy brunch in the heart of London. The food is contemporary European with a classic French heart.
Start with a basket of pastries, and move on to eggs Benedict or pancakes, and even the rarest of things, a brunch dessert. The restaurant’s decor is all chic Parisian luxury with a millennial flourish, the terrace is plain gorgeous, and the bubbles are, of course, endless.
Megan’s
Fulham, Chelsea, Clapham, Balham, Battersea, Wimbledon, Parsons Green, Kingston, Surbiton, Angel
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Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays, 09:00-18:30. Bottomless bubbles are £20, with a full day menu covering breakfast and lunch mains at around £10-15 each.
This classic brunch spot regularly tops lists of the best brunches in London, so it’s no surprise Megan’s has expanded to several locations within and outside the capital.
Brunch plates range from classics like sourdough toast and poached eggs to scrambled tofu, or our personal favourite, the amazing Turkish brunch feast for two.
Ninety minutes of bottomless bubbles will set you back only twenty quid per person, and Megan’s is dog friendly too.
Chotto Matte
Soho
££££
Saturday, 11:00-16:00. Sharing brunch of small plates, large plates and sides, £40pp. Brunch with unlimited sparkling wine and beer, £65, and unlimited champagne and cocktails, £85.
Peruvian-Japanese fusion cuisine, and as much sparkling wine and Asahi beer as you can drink during your two-hour slot.
Admittedly, Chotto Matte isn’t your average brunch spot, but that’s what makes their £65 per head bottomless brunch so much fun. Smoked lamb chops with Peruvian chilli miso, sea bass fillet tempura, yes please. It’s unusual, but it’s a strong contender for best brunch in London, and with a central Soho location, everyone should be able to make it for Saturday brunch service, whatever state Friday night left you in.
Bocconcino
Soho
£££
Sundays, 13:00-15:30. Bottomless prosecco included from £49pp, or unlimited Aperol or Luxardo Limoncello Spritz for £56pp.
Bocconcino Soho’s Sunday brunch does Italy properly: vibrant antipasti to start, mozzarella, arancini, tomato and stracciatella bruschetta, mixed olives and Italian salumi, followed by a genuine pasta course, silky Roman carbonara, signature black truffle tagliatelle, or pappardelle with wild mushrooms.
Then come unlimited Roman-style pizzas straight from the wood-fired oven, the signature Bocconcino, a fiery Diavola, or the ever-popular Bufalina. Resident DJs and live musicians keep the afternoon moving, and if three hours isn’t enough, Aperitivo Hour follows straight on, running all day Sunday.
Salvador and Amanda
Covent Garden
££
Every Saturday. 90 minutes of bottomless drinks and a 3-course lunch with live entertainment, £42.50.
Getting mind-bendingly drunk on a Saturday morning is rarely done better than in a restaurant themed like a Salvador Dali painting, nor with a feast of Spanish tapas to soften the blow of that vision-blurring fifth peach bellini.
Salvador and Amanda have got brunch down to a fine art. Bring in the punters, throw in a live band, serve delicious Catalan finger food, and offer a range of free-flowing alcoholic drinks too extensive to list here. It’s a winner.
Darcie & May Green
Paddington
££
Daily, 8:00-16:00. £39.50 for one sweet and one savoury dish, plus bottomless fizz for two hours.
Darcie & May Green serve classic brunch dishes in a decidedly unusual location. Their delicious brunch is Aussie style, which broadly translates to loads of booze, and the restaurant itself is on a canal boat.
Darcie & May is moored just outside Paddington station, easy to find, but as it’s a small space it’s best to turn up as early as possible at this walk-ins-only London brunch barge.
Bocconcino
Mayfair
£££
Saturday and Sunday. Bottomless pizza and prosecco, £55.
We, at London x London, love pizza. It’s something of a religion for us. So when we heard that Bocconcino’s weekend brunch consisted of unlimited pizza and prosecco, we were, to say the least, very keen.
It’s not just any old restaurant either. This is a classy Mayfair joint that oozes sophistication. Outside of brunch hours, they’ll be shaving truffle onto your pasta dish, but when the weekend comes around they bring in a DJ and the prosecco starts to flow, things get lively.
Brunch runs until 7.30pm on Saturdays, making it less of a boozy brunch and more of a boozy brunner, breakfast, lunch and dinner rolled into one.
Best bottomless brunches in East London
Hotbox
Spitalfields
£££
Last food orders 14:15 Saturdays, 14:45 Sundays. Unlimited prosecco, mimosas and selected cocktails, £25, mains £9-£19.
You’d be forgiven for assuming the bottomless brunch offered by smoked meat experts Hotbox in Spitalfields would be a no-go zone for vegetarians and vegans.
Surprisingly, that’s far from the case, with hearty options like mushroom rarebit and a vegan jackfruit burger, and even vegan sweet treats like oatmeal pancakes, rounding out a menu of brisket, pork belly and beef ribs.
Worth knowing: Hotbox’s original Spitalfields restaurant closed briefly in 2022 after an investor pulled out, current listings show it trading again at the same Commercial Street address, but it’s worth double-checking opening status directly before a special trip given that history.
Roka
Canary Wharf
££££
Buffet of sharing plates, £43pp dry, £59 with unlimited wine and a bellini on arrival.
Roka is a classy affair, and regularly tops lists of the best bottomless brunches in London. You’re handed a bellini on arrival, choose from a buffet of starters, then pick brunch mains fresh from a robata grill.
Your wine is topped up throughout brunch, but don’t go mad, the clean lines and Japanese-inspired design of this restaurant inspire a fairly sedate approach to a boozy brunch in Canary Wharf.
Big Easy
Canary Wharf
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Saturday and Sunday, 11:30-16:00. Unlimited prosecco and one brunch main, £29.50. Two-hour time limit.
The Big Easy BBQ and Crab Shack in Canary Wharf is their largest location yet, with a 150-seater patio for al fresco dining, a 10-metre bar, and genuinely good boozy weekend brunch deals.
It’s not just prosecco, wine and frozen mojitos that are bottomless during brunch, either. You can work through bottomless BBQ if you fancy the “turf” side of the menu, or treat yourself to a half lobster in garlic butter. Whatever you choose, portions are Southern-style generous, so you’ll probably need the full two-hour slot.
Best bottomless brunches in South London
Mr Bao
Peckham
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Saturday and Sunday, 11:00-14:15. Bottomless cocktails, £18pp for one hour. Brunch mains £5.50-£10.
If you’re looking for the best bottomless brunch in South London, you might find it at Mr Bao.
It’s a little unusual to eat bao buns at brunch, but Mr Bao’s brunch buns are filled with things like smoked salmon and poached eggs, classic brunch fare, and delicious to boot.
If you’re feeling particularly peckish, go for the Full Taiwanese: Taiwanese sausages, spiced eggs, spring onion pancake, smoked bacon, Asian beans and a soy dressing, all accompanied by free-flowing bottomless cocktails for a full hour.
Linnaean
Vauxhall
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Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00-16:00. £35pp, including three courses and unlimited fizzy wine.
A vegan bottomless brunch won’t be everyone’s idea of the perfect Sunday, but it’s such a rare find it earns a place on this list.
Linnaean provides guests with a set menu of superfoods and nourishing, veganised breakfast classics, a Middle Eastern salad with pomegranate and tahini dressing, or tofu scramble on sourdough toast, plus unlimited bubbles.
Brixton Courtyard
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Selected Saturdays. £27 for bottomless fizz for 90 minutes and a brunch main.
Brixton Courtyard’s brunch on the beach is a London brunch event rather than just a bottomless brunch.
The music-focused brunches run most weekends through summer. The prosecco runs free for an hour and a half, the tunes keep going much longer, and everyone gets a brunch main too, usually with a vegan option, twists on classics like chicken and waffles from Only Jerkin’s Caribbean-inspired menu.
The Ferndale
Brixton
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Saturdays and Sundays. Bottomless brunch, from £26.
The Ferndale is the site formerly known as Canova Hall, closed and reopened under new ownership (Urban Pubs & Bars) with a proper pub feel in place of the old shabby-chic look.
The bottomless brunch tradition continues regardless, alongside a full Sunday roast and a genuinely solid pizza, wine and beer offering, a good, easy spot for a long, boozy weekend sitting.
Best bottomless brunches in North London
Arenella at The Chapel Bar
Islington
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Saturday and Sunday, 12:00-21:00. £40pp with prosecco and spritzes, £69 to upgrade to champagne, both with a starter and main per person.
Arenella is the Chapel Bar’s Italian eatery, offering a weekend bottomless lunch. Food falls on the lunchy end of the spectrum with mains like lemon and ricotta ravioli, asparagus and garden pea risotto, and chicken Milanese.
With the covered, heated terrace open all year, you can enjoy an al fresco brunch here whatever the weather.
Fish Cafe
Hampstead
£££
Saturdays, 12:00-15:30. Bottomless prosecco and oysters, £50. Ticketed events.
Brunch at a seafood restaurant, well, sort of. Here, brunch is unlimited oysters and prosecco, with sides like chips, mac and cheese and lobster rolls if you want something to soak up the fizz.
Fish Cafe is in the heart of Hampstead, so you can follow brunch with a tipsy stroll around the village or the Heath.
Ma Petite Jamaica
££
Saturdays and Sundays from 12pm. £34.50 for three courses and bottomless rum punch or prosecco.
Ma Petite Jamaica has become a big name on the boozy brunch scene for scoring high on the good vibes chart and serving a genuinely decent menu.
The brunch is a full three courses of zingy Jamaican classics washed down with a choice of rum punch or prosecco. You don’t need to stick to the jerk chicken, they also do a pretty solid full English for those who can’t handle the spice.
Tai Pan Alley
Camden
££
Saturday and Sunday. 3-course brunch and 90 minutes of bottomless Cosmopolitan, prosecco or Langkawi Island Iced Tea, £27.50.
For a steal of a deal, look no further than Tai Pan Alley in Camden, serving a brunch menu of street-food-inspired Asian dishes across the weekend.
It’s a three-course run through some classics you’ll recognise and a few you might not. What you won’t need an introduction to is the bottomless booze deal, cosmos, prosecco, and their own, lethal Langkawi Island Iced Tea.
Best bottomless brunches in West London
144 on the Hill
££
Daily, 8:00-12:00.
Just steps from Richmond Park, 144 on the Hill serves classic brunch dishes and unlimited fizz on its beautiful terrace daily. Dishes vary from hearty pancake stacks and eggs benedict to lighter granola or yoghurt bowls.
You can also grab a picnic from 144 on the Hill to take to the park or riverside, but watch out for the local deer, they might want in on your bagels.
The Cellar at Kindred
Hammersmith
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Saturdays, 12:00-16:00. Bottomless fizz, £20pp. Mains £6-£10.
The Cellar is the on-site restaurant for Hammersmith’s modern-day social club, Kindred. You don’t need to be a member to enjoy the London fusion menu that’s made its name.
Brunch offerings include vegan rancheros, buttermilk pancakes and shakshuka, whether you eat inside the Grade II listed building or out in the garden, you’re guaranteed a great view.
The wild card
UK Garage Brunch
Secret location
££
Party entry with 1 hour of food and drink, £40.95.
For the wildest brunch in the city, look no further than UK Garage Brunch. They turn the city’s best-loved meal into a filthy day rave with free-flowing food and drinks. Don’t expect white tablecloths and good behaviour.
You’ll likely have your fingers around a chicken wing and a can of beer while some of the UK garage scene’s best DJs drop old-school bangers on the sound system. Just like back in the day, the location is kept secret until the last minute.
The London x London Take: Bocconcino now has two very different bottomless brunches worth knowing apart, Mayfair for pizza and prosecco stretching into a Saturday evening, Soho for a fuller Italian feast on Sundays. For something further off the well-trodden path, Mr Bao and Linnaean are the two most likely to genuinely surprise you.
