Bistro-Style Interiors Are the Design Trend That Makes Rooms Feel More Intimate — These Are the 3 Restaurants to Take Style Inspiration From

A modern bistro with wooden floors, chairs, and bar counter, colorful figurative artworks on distressed, rose-tinted cement walls, red curtains, white table cloths, and golden-lit sconces.

No day is ever the same in London's buzzing gastronomic scene, and so it should be no surprise that, here, multiple trends can coexist.

Having spent the two years surveying for London's best restaurants, paying equal attention to the spacey decor of Peckham's coolest new Vietnamese eatery, Lai Rai, as to the sweeping, Mediterranean-inspired look of plush Michelin-starred address, Lita Marylebone, I can assure you I've seen it all — dining rooms so surreally cinematic that you are transported straight into your favorite sci-fi film plot; others, where design is stripped back to the essentials purposefully to allow the food to come to the fore; and places so boldly unusual you forget where you are mouthful by mouthful.