London Totteridge Restaurant Guide

“An oasis in North London” for 25 years – Austrian-born Julius Oberegger’s “excellent local restaurant” in Whetstone is “the closest to fine dining without going to the West End” – with a “well prepared and imaginative menu” that skips round the world from fresh Jersey rock oysters and English rack of lamb to chicken Milanese, wok-fried noodles, and chilli and soy-glazed tofu.

“Very high-quality Indian food” earns excellent ratings for this Whetstone fixture, which started out as a takeaway almost 30 years ago. “Authentic dishes” are “served with style” – and unusually for a South Asian restaurant, they promise to change the menu to reflect the seasons.

For a dependable local with food that’s “simple but always good”, most reports applaud Adriano Bernabel and his family’s Whetstone Italian. To critics, by contrast, the performance is “just OK”, but they must be doing something right as it celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2026.