The Best Sunday Roast in London: 15 Worth Booking

The Sunday roast is the one meal London does better than anywhere, and the one most likely to defeat you if you turn up without a plan. Kitchens sell out, most stop serving far earlier than you would expect, and the best tables are gone days ahead.

Here are fifteen worth the trouble, what they cost, and the timing problem that catches nearly everybody.

A note on the words, because they matter when you book. Sunday roast and Sunday lunch are the same meal in most London kitchens, but not in all of them: a few of the grander dining rooms serve a Sunday lunch that is a set menu with a roast as one option on it, rather than a roast. If the beef is the reason you are going, say roast when you reserve and check it is on.

What was rechecked, and what to confirm yourself

This page carries more than thirty prices and they do not all move at the same rate. In September 2026 the three most load-bearing were rechecked against the venues’ own sites.

The Harwood Arms and Blacklock came back exact, down to the £50 cancellation charge and the two person minimum on the All In. Hawksmoor had grown from six London sites to eight. The other nine venues below are as last checked and their prices should be treated as indicative, because Sunday menus in London change with the cut on the day.

The timing, the booking windows and the cancellation terms are the durable half of this page. Those are what actually decide whether you eat.

The thing nobody tells you: most roasts stop early

A roast is not dinner. Kitchens cook a fixed quantity and when it is gone, it is gone, which is why a 4pm booking is a very different proposition from a 1pm one.

Where	Sunday service	Note
Cora Pearl	Kitchen closes 3.30pm	Earliest on this list
The Devonshire	12pm to 4pm	Reverts to à la carte at 4.15pm
Holborn Dining Room	12.30pm to 5pm
Hawksmoor	Until about 5pm	They will not guarantee a roast after 5
The Guinea Grill	Midday to 5pm
Blacklock	11.45am, last seating 8pm
The Harwood Arms	All day to 8.15pm
The Marksman	12 to 4pm, then 6 to 9pm	A proper evening roast service
The Pig & Butcher	Until 9pm	The latest roast in London
temper, Soho	12pm to 6pm	Sundays only, and the site says they sell out by Friday
Lore of the Land	Food 12pm to 4pm	The pub stays open to 7pm, the kitchen does not
Roast	Every Sunday, from £26	Two sites now, Borough Market and Shoreditch

If you want to eat after 6pm, your realistic options are the Pig & Butcher, the Marksman and Blacklock. Everywhere else you are choosing between lunch and nothing.

The second problem: the good ones are gone before the weekend starts

Timing is what catches people on the day. Booking is what catches them during the week, and the restaurants are unusually blunt about it in their own words.

temper in Soho states plainly that Sundays sell out by Friday. Not that they get busy. That by the time most people start thinking about Sunday lunch, it has gone.

Roast tells you Sundays book up quickly on the page where you book them.

Lore of the Land has gone one further and given the problem its own entry in the FAQ, headed “When is the next available Sunday?” A pub only writes that question down if it is being asked constantly.

Take all three at face value. A Sunday roast at the places worth travelling for is a Tuesday or Wednesday decision, not a Saturday night one. That is the single most useful thing on this page, and none of the lists that rank these rooms mention it.

The best Sunday roasts in London

The Harwood Arms, Fulham

Two courses £64, three for £79. The only Michelin-starred pub in London, and it holds its star in the 2026 guide.

The roast is built to share: a joint for two, listed on the menu under exactly that heading, with Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, greens, cauliflower cheese and celeriac. The Jersey beef sirloin carries a £7.50 supplement. At the bar, the venison Scotch egg is the house signature and worth ordering whatever else you do.

It is also the answer to the timing problem above: roasts are available all day on Sunday, and Sunday service runs from noon to 8:15pm. Almost nothing else on this page will still be serving a roast at eight in the evening. If you want a proper roast late, this is the booking.

Booking opens 90 days ahead and you will need most of that. Largest table is eight. Cancel inside 24 hours and they charge £50 a head, and their own wording is explicit that this applies to all bookings including those made shortly before the reservation time, so read the terms before you commit.

Two smaller things they publish. Free corkage on Friday lunch only, excluding December. And they state plainly that they cannot accommodate guests at risk of anaphylaxis, because of cross-contamination in the kitchen, which is a more honest answer than most kitchens give.

Blacklock, five branches

£28 a head for the All In, minimum two: beef, lamb and pork, all three, with the trimmings. There is a thicker-cut sirloin special at £33. Meat is cooked over open coals and on Sundays the kitchen switches to roasts entirely.

Soho, the City, Shoreditch, Covent Garden and Canary Wharf, all at the same price. They keep a few tables back for walk-ins, which almost nobody else on this list does, and they serve until 8pm.

The best value roast in London by a wide margin, and the easiest to get into. One thing to add to the sum: Blacklock applies a discretionary 12.5 per cent service and hospitality charge to all bills, so the £28 becomes £31.50 a head before drinks. It is still the best value roast in London.

The group has grown beyond the capital as well, with sites in Manchester and Birmingham, but the five above are the London ones and the price is the same at each.

The Devonshire, Soho

One roast, no choices: rib of beef, £29.50, with roast potatoes, carrots, creamed leeks, peas, bacon and onion, Yorkshires and gravy. That is the entire main course section, handwritten, and the confidence is the point.

Two things to know. Bookings are released every Thursday at 10.30am, three weeks ahead, and they go quickly. And the downstairs pub is walk-in only: every reservation is for the upstairs dining room. If you just want a pint and the room, walk in.

Hawksmoor, eight London branches

St Pancras, Air Street, Borough, Guildhall, Knightsbridge, Seven Dials, Spitalfields and Wood Wharf. Eight, not six, which is what most guides still say, and the St Pancras room in the old grand dining room of the station hotel is the newest and the most spectacular. Dry-aged rump £29.50, sirloin £35, and a vegetarian Winslade Wellington at £28. The Sunday Feasting option adds £9.50 a head for a sharing cut off the blackboard, usually prime rib or chateaubriand.

The trimmings are the reason people come back: beef dripping roast potatoes, Yorkshires, roasted carrots, buttered greens, roasted garlic, and a bone marrow and onion gravy. Book lunch rather than late afternoon; they are explicit that roasts may not last past five.

The Pig & Butcher, Islington

From £21 for a vegan barbecued courgette, £25 Tamworth porchetta, £27 for 45-day salt-aged Aberdeen Angus sirloin, up to a 60-day côte de boeuf at £95. Lamb shoulder at £56, chicken at £58 and a beef Wellington at £95 come as sharing plates for two. Every roast comes with a Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, greens, red cabbage and honey roasted carrots and parsnips.

They butcher everything on site, daily, in a purpose-built room downstairs. And they serve the roast until 9pm, which makes this the answer to a Sunday that got away from you.

Holborn Dining Room, Holborn

Suffolk porchetta £37, Norfolk dry-aged sirloin £39, a vegan pithivier at £29, and a corn-fed chicken at £56 carved at the table for two. Duck fat roast potatoes and limitless gravy, which they put in writing.

Note the bill: service here is 15 per cent, not the usual 12.5. The Pie Room pies run on the same menu and need half an hour, so order them when you sit down or not at all.

The Marksman, Hackney Road

A set menu, two courses £42 or three for £48. Recent Sundays have run roast Hereford rump, a wing rib for two at a £25 supplement, and Sutton Hoo chicken.

The only place on this list doing a full second service in the evening, 6pm to 9pm. Parties of nine or more can have the three-course menu served family style by arrangement.

The Bull & Last, Highgate Road

Native Shorthorn sirloin £33, Old Spot porchetta £33, an aubergine parmigiana Wellington at £28, and a prime rib for two at £98.

An idiosyncrasy worth knowing: the Yorkshire pudding is a £1.50 side, not part of the roast. So are the roast potatoes, at £7. Read the menu properly before you order or the bill will surprise you. It is a Heath pub in the truest sense, and they sell a beef broth dog biscuit for £2.

The Camberwell Arms, Camberwell

Everything is served to share: porchetta £28 for one or £54 for two, half a chicken £50, a beef, ale and bone marrow pie £45, slow-cooked Romney lamb £59, dry-aged Hereford rump £60.

These are sharing plates, not plated roasts, which is the structural difference from everywhere else here. Be aware that older listings still quote twenty-odd pounds a head; that has not been true for some time. There is no tube: Denmark Hill, on the Overground and rail, is your station.

Rules, Covent Garden

Roast rib of beef for two, 850g, £55 a head, with buttered greens, Yorkshire pudding, horseradish cream and a red wine jus. Worth knowing that this sits on the main menu every day rather than being a Sunday special.

Established 1798 and owned by four families since, which makes it the oldest restaurant in London. It specialises in game. Smart dress preferred, and no shorts or sportswear. Children under ten are not admitted to the restaurant after 7pm.

Cora Pearl, Covent Garden

Roast organic chicken £29, sirloin of Highland beef £32. The cauliflower cheese is included rather than charged as a side, which is rarer than it should be, along with crispy potatoes, honey glazed carrots, hispi cabbage, Yorkshire and gravy.

Go early. The kitchen closes at 3.30pm, the earliest on this list. Named after a nineteenth-century courtesan, and the ham and cheese toastie has a following of its own.

The Guinea Grill, Mayfair

A Young’s pub off Bruton Place doing dry-aged beef roasted and sliced for Sunday lunch, midday to 5pm, alongside slow-cooked pork belly and a vegetarian gratin. They have been making suet-lidded pies here since the 1940s, and the beef, Guinness and oyster pot pie at £35 arrives topped with a deep-fried oyster in cheese.

They do not publish the roast price, so ring. The pub side is walk-in only and takes no reservations; the restaurant does, and you should use it.

temper, Soho

Fire cooked, Sundays only, and the one on this page that is most likely to be gone by the time you look.

Service runs 12pm to 6pm and the menu is priced per person at £29.90, £38.50 or £55 depending on the meat. The first is a roast of your choosing, the second a three meat feast for two, and the 55 is the bottomless version, ninety minutes of wine and Prosecco and Soho only. That top figure is the most expensive roast on this page, and the bottom one is mid market, so the spread inside a single restaurant is wider than the spread between most of the others.

Their own site carries the warning in capitals: Sundays sell out by Friday. Book midweek.

Lore of the Land, Fitzrovia

4 Conway Street, W1T 6BB, and a Guy Ritchie pub, which is either the reason you are going or the reason you are not.

The trap here is the difference between the opening hours and the kitchen. On a Sunday the pub is open from noon to 7pm, but food is served only from 12pm to 4pm. Arriving at five gets you a drink in a nice room and nothing else.

It is a cashless venue, and dogs are allowed on the ground floor but not in the restaurant, because the kitchen is open plan.

Roast, Borough Market and Shoreditch

Named for the thing, positioned above Borough Market, and now running two sites rather than one, the second in Shoreditch, which a good number of guides have not caught up with.

Roasts start at £26 and come with roast potatoes, braised red cabbage, minted courgette and peas, carrot and swede crush, and Yorkshire pudding.

Our Borough Market restaurants guide covers what else is worth eating there, and the market itself covers the trading days, which matter because Sunday is the quietest one.

How to choose

Best value: Blacklock at £28 for three meats, comfortably.

Best cooking: the Harwood Arms, and the star is deserved. Book three months out.

Best room: Rules for the history, Holborn Dining Room for the grandeur.

If you have not booked: Blacklock keeps walk-in tables, and the Devonshire’s downstairs pub is walk-in by design.

If it is already late afternoon: the Pig & Butcher until 9pm, or the Marksman’s evening service.

For a group: the Camberwell Arms and the Marksman are both built for sharing, and the Marksman will do family service for nine or more.

Practical notes

Book by Thursday. For anywhere on this list, Sunday tables are largely gone by the end of the week, and the Devonshire’s release window means Thursday morning specifically.

Check what the price includes. It varies more than you would think. Cora Pearl includes cauliflower cheese; the Bull & Last charges separately for the Yorkshire pudding and the potatoes.

Watch the service charge. Most are 12.5 per cent discretionary. Holborn Dining Room is 15.

Menus rotate weekly. The Harwood Arms, Camberwell Arms, Bull & Last and Marksman all date their menus and change the cuts each week. Prices have been stable; the specific dishes will differ from the ones above.

Everything here was checked in September 2026 against each venue’s own published menus. Confirm when you book.

Halal restaurants in London includes the one doing a Sunday roast in a completely alcohol free dining room, which is not a combination this list otherwise offers.

Around it: the smarter rooms, set menus for a fixed price on other days, and cheap eats for the rest of the week.

Where to go next

One neighbourhood to rule out before you start. Peckham does not do Sunday dinner at all: Hausu is shut, Levan finishes at three, Artusi at four, and the last kitchen in the district stops at half past six.

For the rest of the week, the best restaurants in London and the steak guide cover several of these kitchens in their other mode. The Michelin list has the Harwood Arms in context.

If the pub matters more than the roast, the best pubs in London is the better list. And for the afternoon after, afternoon tea is the other thing London does properly on a Sunday.

For earlier in the day, the best brunch in London covers the same ground before noon, and has the same timing trap: most kitchens stop serving long before you would expect.

Questions we get asked

Where is the best Sunday roast in London?

The Harwood Arms in Fulham is the one with a Michelin star and the one that books furthest ahead. Blacklock is the best value by a distance and has branches across London. The Devonshire in Soho is the hardest table of the three. All of them stop serving earlier than people expect, which is the real difficulty rather than the choosing.

What is the difference between Sunday roast and Sunday lunch?

In most London kitchens, nothing: they are two names for the same meal. The exception is worth knowing. A few grand dining rooms serve a Sunday lunch that is a set menu with a roast as one choice on it rather than a roast as the whole proposition. If beef is the point, use the word roast when you book and confirm it is being served.

What time do London restaurants stop serving Sunday roast?

Far earlier than almost anyone expects, and this is the single thing that ruins a Sunday. Many kitchens stop at five and several do not guarantee a roast after it, whatever time your table is booked for. A seven o'clock Sunday reservation is a reservation for dinner, not necessarily for the roast you booked it for.

Do you need to book a Sunday roast in London?

Yes, and earlier in the week than you think. The restaurants say so themselves: temper in Soho states that its Sundays sell out by Friday, Roast tells you Sundays book up quickly on its own booking page, and Lore of the Land has given the problem a dedicated FAQ headed When is the next available Sunday. Roasts sell out because kitchens cook a fixed number and stop, which is different from an ordinary service running out of one dish. Treat a good Sunday roast as a Tuesday or Wednesday decision rather than a Saturday night one.

How much is a Sunday roast in London?

Roughly twenty to thirty five pounds for the plate at a good pub or chophouse, and a great deal more at a hotel dining room where the roast sits inside a set lunch. The gap between the two is mostly the room rather than the beef, which is why the pubs on this list outnumber the dining rooms.