The 20 Best Sunday Roasts in London (2026)

Restaurant roasts in the West End and the City. Blacklock is my pick for a first London roast, and the best value in the West End. It's a basement chophouse on Great Windmill Street, three minutes from Piccadilly Circus, and on Sundays every roast comes with a giant beef-dripping Yorkshire pudding, duck-fat potatoes, seasonal vegetables and unlimited gravy. The 55-day-aged beef rump is £27, lamb leg £26, pork loin £25, and there's a barbecued cauliflower roast for vegetarians at £18. For a table that wants everything, order the All In, beef, lamb and pork roasts together with all the trimmings, at £28 a head. A 12.5% service charge is added. Roasts run all day with a last seating at 8pm. Book, though some tables are kept for walk-ins. The catch is the basement: there's no lift, and no dogs at this branch.

Hawksmoor is where to go if beef is the whole point. The Seven Dials branch, two minutes from Covent Garden station, serves dry-aged rump for £29.50 or sirloin for £35, with roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, carrots, greens, roasted garlic and onion gravy. The vegetarian Winslade Wellington is £28. For two or more, Sunday Feasting lets you order a big cut off the blackboard, such as prime rib or Chateaubriand, and add £9.50 for the trimmings; the cut's price is on the blackboard, so ask before you order. The one thing to plan around is time. The kitchen runs until 8:30pm, but the roast is only guaranteed until 5pm. It's fully wheelchair accessible.

temper cooks everything over open fire, and its Sunday roast is a Soho-only thing. Every roast is the same price, £29.90: aged beef, Mount Grace pork loin, smoked chicken or smoked and pulled lamb shoulder, with beef-fat roast potatoes, giant Yorkshire puddings, honey-glazed carrots and gravy cooked for 16 hours. The Three Beast Feast gives you beef, pork and lamb for £38.50 a head, minimum two people. It's served from noon to 6pm, and the restaurant's own advice is blunt: Sundays sell out by Friday, and 1pm to 3pm is the peak. The drawbacks are real. There's no vegetarian roast, and the extras (a Bloody Mary flight at £12, bottomless wine at £27.50) push the bill up fast. Piccadilly Circus is seven minutes away.

Simpson's in the Strand has served roast beef from silver trolleys for generations, and the Grand Divan dining room is still the place to see it done. The roast rib of Devonshire beef is carved at your table for £49.75, with Yorkshire pudding, roast root vegetables, greens, horseradish and gravy. Roast chicken with sage stuffing and bread sauce is £32.50. It's the most expensive plate of roast beef here, and roast potatoes cost another £6.75, with 15% service on top. Because the trolley is on the everyday menu, you don't need a Sunday: Sunday lunch runs 11:30am to 3pm (last orders), and a weekday lunch is easier to book. Embankment and Covent Garden are both seven minutes' walk.

Sessions Arts Club is a restaurant in the old courthouse on Clerkenwell Green, and Sunday lunch is the prettiest way to see it. Be clear about what you're getting: one roast, beef at £37, served with dauphinoise potatoes, honey and thyme carrots, green beans, horseradish crème fraîche and red wine jus. There's no Yorkshire pudding and no roast potatoes. The vegetarian main (mushroom, truffle and parmesan on the 20 September menu) is £32, and the menu changes every week. Come for a long lunch in a beautiful room, from noon to 4:30pm, rather than for a textbook roast. A 15% service charge is added. Farringdon station is five minutes away.

The Jugged Hare is a game-leaning pub-restaurant on Chiswell Street, by the Barbican. On the September menu, 45-day-aged Longhorn sirloin is £32, and Scottish Blackface lamb leg and rotisserie chicken with pigs in blankets are £29.50 each, all with Yorkshire pudding, duck-fat potatoes and rotisserie gravy. The plant-based swede, feta and chickpea Wellington (£28) comes with roast potatoes, kale and chestnut sauce. For four or more, Sunday Feasting is served to share in the downstairs Josephine room: £49.50 a head for two courses or £58 for three, booked in advance. The dining room fills on Sundays, so book. A 12.5% service charge is added. Barbican station is six minutes away.

Roast is in the Floral Hall above Borough Market, with tables looking over the market, and it's the easiest roast to combine with a morning at the market. The Sunday menu runs from 11:45am to 6:30pm. 42-day-aged beef, carved thick, is £39; the pork belly with pigs in blankets is £31; roast chicken £29 and a vegan nut roast £28. It's a polished room, but it's expensive for what arrives: a 15% service charge goes on, and it includes a £2 per head cover charge. I'd order the beef Wellington (£46) over the plain roast beef. Walk-ins are accepted, a halal menu is available, and only assistance dogs are allowed. London Bridge station is nine minutes' walk.

Gastropub classics. The Audley is a pub on Mount Street in Mayfair, and it's the one central gastropub where you can't book: it's walk-in only. The Sunday menu is short. There's a roast sirloin of beef with horseradish cream at £36 or half a Devonshire chicken with bread sauce and stuffing at £30, both with roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, leek and cauliflower cheese and greens. Those are Mayfair prices, and there's no vegetarian roast. What you get is a proper pub room, no booking stress, and a roast until 5pm. Arrive at noon to be safe. Bond Street station is eleven minutes away, and Hyde Park is six minutes' walk west.

The Pig and Butcher is an Islington corner pub that butchers its own meat, and it's the one I'd send a friend to for a classic roast in north London. The 45-day salt-aged Aberdeen Angus sirloin is £27, Tamworth porchetta £25, and a barbecued courgette with vegan gravy £21, all with Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, greens, red cabbage and honey-roasted carrots and parsnips. The sharing roasts for two are the reason to bring friends: lamb shoulder £56, chicken £58, 60-day-aged côte de boeuf £95. The roast runs until 9pm, one of the latest in London, so an evening table is the easy booking. Not every review is glowing; one longtime fan felt standards had slipped, so book knowing it's a busy pub, not a restaurant. Angel station is nine minutes away.

Seven minutes' walk north of the Pig and Butcher, the Drapers Arms is a pub on a quiet Barnsbury street, and it publishes a new Sunday menu every week. On 27 September, the roast pork belly was £24 and 48-day-aged sirloin with Yorkshire pudding £28.50. The sharing roasts are the draw: a whole roast chicken for two or three at £55, seven-hour lamb shoulder for two at £62, beef fillet for two at £75 and a bone-in côte de boeuf for two or three at £100. Tell the pub when you book if you want one, because they sell out. There's a garden. When it's full, service can struggle; one recent reviewer found it chaotic. Highbury & Islington station is twelve minutes away.

The Bull and Last sits on Highgate Road opposite Parliament Hill Fields, the southern edge of Hampstead Heath, so the order of the day writes itself: a walk up Parliament Hill for the view, then lunch. On the 20 September menu, Native Shorthorn sirloin and Old Spot porchetta were £33 each, and the vegetarian roast, an aubergine parmigiana Wellington with mushroom gravy, was £28, and a Google reviewer called it one of the best veggie roasts they'd had, which is rare praise for a meat pub's vegetarian option. A Shorthorn prime rib for two is £98. It's among the priciest pub plates here, and 12.5% is added, but portions are generous. Book ahead for Sunday. Gospel Oak on the Overground is nine minutes' walk, or Tufnell Park on the Northern line fourteen.

The Spaniards Inn is an old coaching inn on the northern edge of Hampstead Heath, with a big beer garden, and it's the roast to pair with a long Heath walk. It's part of a pub group, so the menu is more standard than the chef-run pubs above: rump of beef £26.50, roast chicken £24.50, porchetta £25.50, and a nut roast in vegetarian or vegan versions at £24, with Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes and vegetables. The sharing board of beef, chicken and porchetta is £54.50. It's a huge, popular pub, so book, and ask for the garden in good weather. It's a 21-minute walk from Hampstead station.

The Marksman on Hackney Road is an east London pub with a chef's menu, and on Sundays it serves a set lunch: two courses for £42, three for £48. The menu changes weekly; the mid-August one had roast Hereford rump with Yorkshire pudding and horseradish, roast Sutton Hoo chicken, a chicken and girolle pie for two, and a vegetarian tart, plus a Hereford wing rib for two at a £25 supplement. It's more expensive than a plated pub roast, and the set format means no roast-only bill. Plan around the gap: the kitchen serves from midday to 4pm, closes, then reopens from 6pm to 9pm. Hoxton station on the Overground is eight minutes away, and Columbia Road, home of the Sunday flower market, is a few minutes' walk.

Big sharing roasts. The Harwood Arms in Fulham is the best pub roast in London, and it's priced like it. It holds a Michelin star, and on Sundays everything is a set menu: two courses for £64 or three for £79. The roasts come for two to share, and on the 27 September menu the choice was Jersey beef sirloin (a £7.50 per person supplement), slow-cooked deer shoulder wrapped in bacon, or Cumbrian pork belly, all with Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, greens, cauliflower cheese and celeriac. Roasts run all day until 8:15pm. The rules are strict: bookings open 90 days ahead, a card secures the table, and late cancellations cost £50 a head. It can't cater for vegans. Fulham Broadway station is eight minutes away.

The Anchor & Hope on The Cut, near the Old Vic and a two-minute walk from Southwark station, is one of central London's best-known gastropubs, and its Sunday lunch is about big joints rather than a classic plate. The menu is rewritten weekly. On 27 September it had a seven-hour lamb shoulder with roots and gratin dauphinois for two (£80), roast suckling pig with white beans and romesco for three (£105), and a roast haunch of roe venison for one (£33.80). Don't expect a Yorkshire pudding. Bookings open 30 days ahead on SevenRooms, card details are needed, and the kitchen closes at 3:15pm, so this is a lunch, not a late afternoon. It's the one to book for a group after a morning on the South Bank.

The Camberwell Arms is a chef-led south London pub, and its Sunday menu is all sharing roasts, served with roast potatoes. On 27 September: Saddleback porchetta at £28 or £54 depending on size, half a Sladesdown Farm chicken at £50, slow-cooked Romney lamb at £59 and dry-aged Hereford rump at £60. It's a modern take rather than a classic plate: there are no Yorkshire puddings, and each dish comes with its own garnish (Savoy cabbage with the chicken, courgette and mint with the lamb) rather than a full spread of vegetables. The £60 rump comes with just horseradish crème fraîche and the potatoes, and one recent reviewer called £50-plus for a roast without vegetables outrageous, so order a vegetable dish on the side. The cooking is the draw, but the roast splits opinion: one Google reviewer calls it legendary, while others find it expensive for what arrives. A 12.5% service charge is added. There's no Tube; Denmark Hill station, on the Overground and National Rail, is thirteen minutes' walk.

Budget and vegan roasts. The Barley Mow on Horseferry Road is the cheapest good roast in central London, and it's about ten minutes' walk from Westminster Abbey. Sirloin of beef is £23, pork belly with crackling and chicken supreme are £21 each, and the butterbean and lentil loaf is £18, all with cauliflower purée, roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables and gravy. It's a plain, friendly pub rather than a destination, and the menu doesn't list a Yorkshire pudding, so ask. Roasts start at noon. Book online on a busy weekend. St James's Park station is nine minutes away.

The Cleveland Arms is a neighbourhood pub on Chilworth Street, seven minutes from Paddington station, which makes it useful if you're staying nearby or catching a train west. The trio roast of beef rump, chicken leg and pork belly is £29, beef rump alone £26.50, pork belly £24, corn-fed chicken £22, and the beetroot and butternut squash Wellington £17, all with Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips, cabbage and gravy. Children's roasts are half the adult price. The kitchen serves until 8pm. The catch is the 13.5% service charge, which takes some shine off the value, and reviews of the meat vary from visit to visit.

The Great Exhibition is an East Dulwich local, and it's a good-value roast if you're in south-east London. 30-day-aged beef rump is £26, chicken supreme and pork belly £22 each, and a vegan spiced lentil and mushroom Wellington £19.50, with roast potatoes, honey carrots, parsnips, greens and gravy; Yorkshire puddings come on request. The chicken gets the praise in recent Google reviews. It's a neighbourhood pub, not a trip from central London on its own, and the kitchen serves from noon to 6pm or until the roast sells out. The nearest station is East Dulwich, on National Rail from London Bridge, sixteen minutes' walk.

The Spread Eagle in Homerton is a fully vegan pub, and its roast is the one I'd point vegans and vegetarians to first. The roast menu it publishes is a spring 2025 sample, so dishes rotate with the seasons: on it, the beet Wellington and the walnut and cashew nut roast were £19 each and slow-roast celeriac with crackling £18, all with potatoes, roasted carrots, greens, Yorkshire pudding and gravy. Expect prices in that range and confirm on the day. The pub welcomes dogs and families. Sunday food runs from noon to 8pm, and groups of six or more should book by email or phone. One Google reviewer's only complaint is the lack of stuffing. Homerton station on the Overground is five minutes' walk.