Six Westminster restaurants, from Orrery in Marylebone to Whiteley's Kitchen in Bayswater, joined the Michelin Guide in October. Updated November 2026.

Six Westminster restaurants joined the Michelin Guide in October 2026. They include Orrery on Marylebone High Street, which has been open in some form for more than 20 years and now has a new chef.

Michelin’s inspectors added 22 restaurants across Great Britain and Ireland last month, according to the Guide’s monthly list of new additions. Fourteen are in London, and six of those are in the City of Westminster.

Joining the Guide is not the same as winning a star. Michelin says stars and Bib Gourmands “are only revealed at the annual MICHELIN Guide Ceremony”. The monthly additions are restaurants its inspectors recommend in the meantime.

The six Westminster restaurants

Restaurant Where Cuisine, as Michelin lists it Price band
Orrery by Pierre Minotti 55 Marylebone High Street, W1U 5RB Modern cuisine ££££
Impala 13-14 Dean Street, Soho, W1D 3RS Contemporary £££
IGNI 12 St George Street, Mayfair, W1S 2FB Modern cuisine, grills ££££
Trèsind 13-14 Hanover Street, Mayfair, W1S 1YH Indian £££
Whiteley’s Kitchen Six Senses hotel, 1 Redan Place, Bayswater, W2 4SA Modern British £££
Zylia 6 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, WC2E 9HZ Greek ££

The addresses, cuisines and price bands come from each restaurant’s entry in the Michelin Guide. Michelin’s price symbols run from £ to ££££.

Orrery: an old Marylebone name with a new chef

Orrery is the name local readers are most likely to know. Michelin says it “has been around in some guise for over two decades”. It now trades as Orrery by Pierre Minotti.

The inspectors’ entry for the restaurant says Minotti previously worked with the chef Alex Dilling. The first-floor dining room keeps its arched windows but has fewer tables than before. They describe the cooking as “classically based and elegant”, and pick out:

  • Cornish brill with Devon crab
  • a pissaladière with Scottish girolles and Limousin veal sweetbread
  • quail with vin jaune, and Creedy Carver duck with a red wine sauce

The cheese selection gets a mention of its own. According to the Guide, the restaurant is closed on Sundays and Mondays, opens for dinner only on Tuesdays, and serves lunch and dinner from Wednesday to Saturday.

Orrery’s own website takes online bookings for up to eight people. Its épicerie does not take bookings.

Impala, Soho: cooking over coals

Impala, on Dean Street, is the other Westminster restaurant Michelin chose to write up at length. Its chef is Meedu Saad, and the Guide’s entry says the cooking draws on “flavours from Egypt, the Middle East and Europe”. Dishes are cooked over coals in an open kitchen you pass on the way to your table. The inspectors single out orzo, which they call birds’ tongue pasta after its Egyptian name, served with spiced oxtail.

The other four

  • IGNI, Mayfair. The name means “fire” in Latin, and Michelin’s entry says the restaurant is “all about cooking over flames”, seen best from the kitchen counter.
  • Trèsind, Mayfair. Michelin describes it as the first London branch of an Indian restaurant group from Dubai (entry).
  • Whiteley’s Kitchen, Bayswater. It is inside the Six Senses hotel on Redan Place, and Michelin lists a chef’s table (entry).
  • Zylia, Covent Garden. The only ££ restaurant of the six. Chef Nick Molyviatis cooks traditional Greek Cypriot food. Michelin says it opened in 2026 inside the Arcade food hall but has its own entrance on Chandos Place (entry).

September brought Simpson’s back

The October six follow September’s additions, which also leaned on Westminster. Michelin added Simpson’s in the Strand, which dates from 1828 and has been revived by the restaurateur Jeremy King. Two Mayfair restaurants, Bar des Prés and Dante Mayfair, joined in the same month, according to the same list.

What it means for you

If you live or work in Westminster, these are six new places Michelin’s inspectors rate. Only Zylia sits in the Guide’s ££ band; the rest are £££ or ££££.

None has a star or a Bib Gourmand. Any change to that would come at the next annual ceremony for Great Britain and Ireland.

For other ways to eat out locally this season, see our Christmas dinner in Westminster page. If you plan to drive into the West End for dinner, check our parking zones and hours page first.

Sources

  • MICHELIN Guide, The Inspectors’ latest additions to the MICHELIN Guide, October and September 2026 lists, read 9 November 2026
  • MICHELIN Guide restaurant entries for Orrery by Pierre Minotti, Impala, IGNI, Trèsind, Whiteley’s Kitchen and Zylia, read 9 November 2026
  • Orrery, restaurant website, for booking arrangements, read 9 November 2026
  • postcodes.io, for confirming that all six postcodes are in the City of Westminster