The best restaurants in Chelsea

Address: At Sloane, 1 Sloane Gardens, London SW1W 8EA
Website: atsloane.com

The Campaner

Found in a quiet, pristine courtyard, roughly 10 minutes from Sloane Square station, The Campaner is one to add to the summer bucket list. With plenty of outdoor seating, it’s a chance to catch some rays, vermouth in hand, as wafts of paella float through the restaurant from the kitchen. Close your eyes, and you’re lounging in Spain rather than one of the best restaurants in Chelsea. There is plenty of seating inside the vast, airy and colourful dining room for days when the weather isn’t much like Spain at all. Expect lots of seafood on the menu: smoked salmon, caviar blinis and oysters with sherry vinaigrette to start, followed by larger sharing plates of prawns al ajillo, and paella to share, theatrically plated up tableside. Large chunks of meat are cooked over charcoal on the grill, from the 45-day aged ribeye to the shoulder cut of presa Ibirico. Our menu highlights include the selection of freshly-shaven meat from the cured jamon leg on the kitchen counter, the unusual patatas bravas made by layers of thin potato and fried into crispy cubes served with tangy garlic aioli and the unbeatable croquettes coated in crumbly breadcrumbs and stuffed with soft, salty Iberian ham. Save room for a slice of gooey basque cheesecake for dessert. Sophie Knight

Address: The Campaner, Chelsea Barracks, 1 Garrison Square, London SW1W 8BG
Website: thecampaner.com

Le Petit Beefbar

If the Croque Sando sandwich is yet to grace your Instagram feed, you’re in the minority. Slices of tender dry-aged beef ribeye steak and stringy mozzarella wedged between thin slices of white toast, chopped perfectly into rectangles and arranged as four walls on a little plate with Le Petite Beefbar’s signature sauce poured into the centre, covering the sando in rich gravy. Of course, we had to try the showstopper. Le Petit Beefbar runs restaurants in Dubai, Paris, and Dublin, to name a few. The London spot sits a few streets back from King’s Road on a pretty residential street. There’s a terrace outside with tables to soak up the sun and elegant bar seating for a cocktails-only visit. We chose the decadent dining room for our visit, which has a chic French bistro vibe: rattan chairs, red leather sofas and deep blue walls. As we walked through to our table, we spotted a few tables sharing the signature steak and frites served over a hot flame, drizzled in a secret house sauce, a popular and delicious choice. Mix it up with some sides; from the ‘street food’ section, we loved the KFC, fried Kobe beef with Cinzano marinade and sweet Sichuan pepper sauce, the fresh crab tacos with cashews satay sauce and the goma spinach salad with Asian dressings for something light and healthy. Sophie Knight

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