Best restaurants in Victoria

It might, strictly speaking, be in Belgravia, but this original outpost of the Boisdale group is well worth the short walk from Victoria for its tartan-clad interiors and fine Scottish produce, whether salmon, steak or Scotch whisky.   

It might be a chain but the cooking at this outpost of Ibérica is as good as when there was just the one Ibérica. Tapas classics are done to a high standard while staff are friendly and helpful.

This cute offshoot of Shoreditch’s Jones Family Project comes complete with a courtyard terrace. House speciality steaks are sourced from Yorkshire farmer The Ginger Pig but lighter seafood and vegetarian dishes are handled just as well.

Unfortunate to be seen as the second best Chinese restaurant in Victoria, Hunan might also be the second best Chinese restaurant in the whole city. Regional Hunanese cooking is on the menu here and it's superbly done across a variety of menus. 

Good gastropubs are a balancing act that's hard to pull off, but Ganymede has just the right combination of warm-hearted pub charm and top-class restaurant quality cooking. The menu eschews small platery for a proper three course affair with plates of excellent, elevated pub grub. The cocktails are also excellent. 

With a former chef from The Square in the kitchen and an ex-River Café sommelier out front, you can expect high standards from the daily changing menu at this whitewashed dining room on the Pimlico/Victoria borders.

Former Trinity and Elystan Street head chef Aaron Potter made Wildflowers a hit on the supper club circuit before arriving at Newson's Yard. His home Mediterranean food is the sort of thing we could eat everyday, ranging from beautiful seasonal pasta dishes to moules farcies, gnocco fritto and a killer soft serve ice cream. 

With its own entrance and airy outlook, you’d never guess that this casual cicchetti restaurant is within the Park Plaza Hotel. Sharing plates are good for groups while a bowl of pasta is quick and easy before or after the theatre.

The immaculately polished English Grill has pride of place at The Rubens at the Palace - one of the closest hotels to Buckingham Palace. It's no coincidence that everything here makes you feel like royalty, whether it's besuited, genial staff, or the superb British cooking. 

Grumbles has been a fixture of Victoria life for 60 years now, and west London is all the better for it. Incredibly generous portions and pricing are what keep its cultish fans coming back, as well as lovely service and defiantely old-school manner.

Casa do Frango has established itself as a favourite with Londoners for delicious chicken, and is surprisingly wallet-friendly too given how nice the restaurants are inside. The Victoria site is right opposite Rail House in the Nova Development, so you can nip in whilst you're waiting for your train in the station next door.

Another splendid restaurant inside the opulent Rubens at The Palace, The Curry Room's rich, sumptuous Rajasthani decor is a world away from the Belgravia pavements outside. It's not the cheapest Indian food in the city but you get what you pay for here with some fabulous cooking alongside a hefty wine list and Indian beers on draught.

Bang opposite the main entrance to Victoria station, Market Hall’s dozen kitchens are a brilliant choice whether you’re having lunch with a colleague or supper ahead of catching the train home. In summer there’s a rooftop terrace, too.

The standards at Quilon are as high – and the cooking as authentic – as you’d expect at a south Indian restaurant housed within the Taj Hotel, one of India’s most prestigious hotel groups. Fish and seafood are highlights.

Chef Andrew Wong transformed his parents’ traditional Cantonese, Kym’s, into one of the most cutting-edge Chinese restaurants in Europe. Expect thrillingly creative daytime dim sum and modern updates of regional Chinese cooking.

The more formal of the regal Goring hotel’s two restaurants, this traditional dining room boasts interiors designed by Princess Margaret’s son Viscount Linley and an egg dish on the menu that was the Queen Mother’s favourite thing to eat.

The Thomas Cubitt is what gastropubs should look like - you can come here for a pint, or a proper slap-up meal of elevated pub grub. The downstairs is full of atmosphere, but head up to the first floor dining room for an altogether more serene meal.

When the Medlar team joined forces with former Angler chef Gary Foulkes, the results were always bound to be good. Somehow, Cornus managed to eclipse even those high expectations, with astonishingly good food that uses the absolute best ingredients. Yes it's expensive, but it's so worth it.

A sibling of Fitzrovia’s Riding House Café, this outpost over the road from Victoria station sticks to the same approachable all-day formula of breakfasts and brunches, globally inspired lunches and dinners, and after-work drinks.