Story

Tom Sellers racked up a considerable amount of experience in fine-dining before opening his first restaurant near Tower Bridge in 2013, having worked under Thomas Keller at New York’s Per Se and Rene Redzepi at Noma in Copenhagen, to name a few. His approach to contemporary fine dining won Story a Michelin star shortly after opening, and it added a second in 2021.

Any meal at Restaurant Story is always a memorable one, with a luxurious but contemporary-feeling dining room and slick and attentive service from its front-of-house team. A meal here isn’t cheap, but it’s the kind of restaurant that suits a special occasion more than an everyday dinner.

Story is tasting-menu-only, priced at £100 for the seven-course lunch and £145 for a nine-course dinner with canapés, plus a pairing option that can include stirred cocktails, barley wines and ciders in addition to wines. Courses are often inspired by moments in Sellers’ life (hence the restaurant’s name), such as a beef dripping candle whose flame melts the fat into tallow to be mopped up with house-made bread, inspired by the roast dinners of Sellers’ childhood.