London’s best restaurants for celebrity spotting

Back in the splash-the-cash, Blairite boom of the mid-Noughties, one had more chance of celebrity spotting on Berkeley Street than a homes-of-the-stars Hollywood tour, as famous faces shuttled between Nobu Berkeley and Novikov over the road. Nobu, alas, has gone to the great fish market in the sky, but Novikov remains, and the fact that the restaurant offers a delivery service for private jets should tell you everything you need to know about the gold-plated calibre of its clientele. Still, Tom Cruise, Natalie Portman, Serena Williams and Johnny Depp wouldn’t eat here for just any old version of in-flight catering, and the Japanese dishes in the Asian half of the operation — seared o-toro nigiri, hamachi yuzu truffle rolls — are excellent. The Italian dining room, however, is celebrity Siberia.