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Overview
Awards
- MICHELIN Guide
- OAD
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European Restaurants 2026, 95
- The World’s50 Best
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World`s 50 Best Restaurants 2024, #17
- La Liste
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La Liste, #616
- Restaurant Ranking
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Restaurant Ranking 2024, #383, PRO #18.50, USER #0.00
Chef
Santiago Lastra
Cuisine
Mexican, Modern Cuisine, Progressive Mexican
Foodle Reviews
on 18 Mar 2026
Another visit to @kol.restaurant in London. Definitely one of my favourite Mexican restaurants in Europe. What Santiago Lastra has built here is seriously impressive — a restaurant with deep Mexican soul, filtered through British produce (mostly) and seasonality in a way that feels original rather than contrived.
This isn’t a gimmick restaurant.
It’s thoughtful, confident and full of identity. There’s precision here, of course, but also warmth. Real flavour. Real personality.... More
on 29 Nov 2025
A work of passion from Mexican Chef Santiago Lastra KOL seeks to create traditional Mexican flavors using exclusively British seasonal ingredients. Located mere steps from the madness of Black Friday on Oxford Street the restaurant is calm around an open kitchen where 10 courses come together with bold flavors and unexpected textures. Mole without Cacao? A tamal with Koji? Bleu Cheese Bunuelo? The signature Langoustine Taco, using juice from the head to impart acidity? All of it recognizable... More
on 24 May 2025
Mexican soul, British ingredients @kol.restaurant
- Asparagus, wild garlic, hemp seed sauce -
- Scallop, rhubarb, pil pil -
- Lamb saddle, wood sorrel, rye koji, bueno mulato -
- Barbacoa, lamb neck, daikon, arbol salsa -
- Paleta, jalapeño, yoghurt, rhubarb -
- Jericalla, mead, fennel pollen, pasilla -
Foodtastic Experience by @santiagolas ✨
on 23 May 2025
Mexican soul, British ingredients @kol.restaurant
- Chapulin, kelp, huacatay -
- Crab, churro, dulce de leche, marigold -
- Blue mussel, morels, pickled tulip, mole -
- Nicoatole, caviar, meadowsweet, herbs -
- Cuttlefish, cobnut, sea truffle, gorse -
- Langoustine, smoked chili, sea buckthorn -
Foodtastic Experience by @santiagolas ✨
on 11 Apr 2024
BUÑUELOS
Tunworth ice cream, sea buckthorn, ancho chilli
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Chocolate from Mexico
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FLAN
Toasted rye, malted barley, apple, sourdough caramel
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NIEVE
Sorrel and jalapeño sorbet, mezcal
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Another visit to @kol.restaurant in London a while back. Thoroughly enjoyable, very tasty and @santiagolas Santiago Lastra’s celebration of Mexico using British produce is certainly a breath of fresh air to the London dining scene. Continuing to improve and now one of the restaurants in... More
on 11 Apr 2024
SOPE
British wagyu, peas, elderflowers, kelp
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CHICHARRON
Wild mushroom, pumpkin, hazelnut and pork crackling sauce
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ENMOLADA
Pigeon, purple carrot mole, pennywort
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Barbacoa - Lamb, nettle and arbol salsa, shallots, elderflower, chilmole
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Another visit to @kol.restaurant in London a while back. Thoroughly enjoyable, very tasty and @santiagolas Santiago Lastra’s celebration of Mexico using British produce is certainly a breath of fresh air to the London dining scene. Continuing... More
on 10 Apr 2024
TACO
Langoustine, smoked chilli, sea buckthorn
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Another visit to @kol.restaurant in London a while back. Thoroughly enjoyable, very tasty and @santiagolas Santiago Lastra’s celebration of Mexico using British produce is certainly a breath of fresh air to the London dining scene. Continuing to improve and now one of the restaurants in London that I try to visit whenever I’m in town. Have been back since this visit. Highly recommended
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Michelin Guide - ⭐️
OAD - 59
W50B... More
on 10 Apr 2024
JERICALLA
Woodruff custard, morita chilli, pink fir potato, caviar
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Crab chilpachole, Mezcal
Cornish crab oblea, fermented gooseberries, scotch bonnet
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CEVICHE Cured sea bream, almond cream, forced rhubarb, oxeye daisy
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Another visit to @kol.restaurant in London a while back.
Thoroughly enjoyable, very tasty and @santiagolas Santiago Lastra’s celebration of Mexico using British produce is certainly a breath of fresh air to the London dining scene. Continuing to improve... More
on 30 Jul 2023
Carnitas - confit whole cod, black beans , woodruff, sugar kelp
on 30 Jul 2023
Carnitas - Confit cod, Black beans, Woodruff, Sugar kelp
on 30 Jul 2023
Mole - Purple carrot, Coloradito, Fermented blackcurrant
on 29 Jul 2023
Aguachile - Kohlrabi, Pink mole, Seaweed macha, Mexico marigold
on 29 Jul 2023
Langoustine taco, Smoked chilli, Sea buckhorn
on 29 Jul 2023
Vuelve a La Vida - Scallop, Mussel, Courgette avocado, Sea arrow grass
on 29 Jul 2023
Nicoatole, Yellow pepper, Crème fraiche, Caviar
on 29 Jul 2023
Cold pipian, Rock samphire, Kombucha, Cornish crab oblea, Fermented gooseberries, Scotch bonnet
on 12 Jun 2023
This is my favorite Mexican fine dining outside of Mexico to date 👏
3) JERICALLA – Woodruff custard, morita chilli, pink fir potato, caviar
@michelinguide for 2023: 🌟
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#hungryglomad_london #mystorywithmichelin #yesmichelinguide #oadtop100 #epicurean #finedininglover #finedininglovers #hautecuisine #hautecuisines #beautifulcuisine #beautifulcuisines #gastroart... More
on 21 Dec 2021
TAMAL
Chocolate steam cake, corn husk ice cream, sea buckthorn
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Lunch back in July at Kol in London which had finally hit it's stride after opening last year then closing due to Covid then opening then closing again. Basically encountering the nightmare that every restaurant in the country has had to negotiate. Thoroughly enjoyable, very tasty and Santiago Lastra's celebration of Mexico using British produce is certainly a breath of fresh air to the London dining scene. Certainly worth a visit.....if... More
Recommended in London
Address
9 Seymour St, London
Hours
Phone
+442038296888
Price Range
Based on country average
$$$$ (£100+)
Website
https://www.kolrestaurant.com/
