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Well, here's something with a difference. To describe Napket as a café is to restore the true meaning to the word, particularly if you add 'boutique' and 'delicatessen'. This is the recreation of café society in London's King's Road, beautifully designed by Peter van Hooreweghe, quite small, but already wildly popular.

You can eat big or small here, but be sure that either way you will eat well and imaginatively from breakfast onwards, with club sandwiches, salads and European puddings well to the fore.

To enjoy such sophisticated surroundings and food you would think could leave your wallet severely wounded, but not a bit of it, the value is amazing.

This is an exciting addition to the London scene. Just hope the 25 covers are sufficient to keep it viable.

The Market Place is so named as it's attached to the Chelsea Farmers' Market, making this a popular place with local Chelsea residents doing their weekly grocery shop at the market. The place is particularly popular during the hot summer months when the outdoor terrace gets packed out with diners. The menu is classic brasserie fare with Mediterranean style salads and char-grilled dishes galore, nothing out of the norm, but well prepared and presented nevertheless.

Reviewed by Linda Buttle

From being a small pancake house in London's West End in 1958, My Old Dutch chain has come a long way and continues to serve sweet and savoury pancakes as well as a selection of salads, Dutch starters and desserts in all of its restaurants. With outlets in Kensington, Holborn, Chelsea and Ealing, the interior of light walls and scrubbed pine chairs certainly have something to do with the warm atmosphere inside, making it a perfect place to enjoy tasty food with the family or friends.

The menu takes in dishes such as starters of marinated herring fillets with beetroot, gherkins and green salad, and Dutch meatballs with mustard sauce. Their renowned pancakes include a variety of fillings such as chilli con carne, sautéed apple and smoked bacon, honey and slices of lemon, and a selection of seafood.

My Old Dutch also offers specialized beers such as Amstel, Hoegaarden, Grolsch alongside exciting real fruit beers, milkshakes and smoothies.

A fascinating addition to the London culinary scene, Tartine offers French open-faced sandwiches, the contents of which are wilfully rich and tempting beyond reason. Think bruschetta, add indulgence and you have it. Here they use poilâne; a sort of bucolic sourdough bread toasted using olive oil, it is then served with a wide variety of fillings with minute steak and caramelised onions as a typical winner, but be sure not to ignore the combination of shredded duck, ginger, cucumber and plum sauce

Whether the Earl of Sandwich, the inventor of that very English piece of cuisine, would be amused at the price of nearly £10 is open to question. But then he would have reckoned it's without the elaborate touches that accompanies each carefully tuned offering. Main courses like roasted cod, borlotti beans, chorizo and tomatoes, and puddings rate well too. Innovation, as opposed to meddling, is always to be welcomed and as such Tartine deserves to prosper.

Located in the heart of London's shopping district, Café Montpeliano in Brompton Road in chic Knightsbridge is but a stone's throw from the delights of Harrods, Armani and Beauchamp Place. This smart Italian brasserie with attractive comfortable interiors welcomes guests for a quick bite or leisurely meal.

The contemporary menu offers a range of pasta dishes, exotic salads and hearty main courses. Begin with carpaccio Cipriani, Irish rock oysters, wild mushrooms and polenta mozzarella, tomato and avocado or smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on toast. Alternatively, select tortelloni with cream and rosemary osso bucco with saffron risotto. Then proceed with smoked pink trout salad, steak Diane with vegetables or the great focaccia sandwich. For dessert choose between tiramisu, apricot tart or strawberry cheesecake. Breakfast and afternoon tea are served here too. Takeaway and children's menus are also available. The food can be perfectly complemented by a selection from the extensive wine list.

Mybar at myhotel in Chelsea is a lively, energetic meeting place that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner; their bar specialises in superb cocktails as well as a variety of other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. It is a hub of activity in the evening as well, when you can chat under the cosy candle light and listen to some great music.

It is also close to the famous Sloane Street, the focal point for many upmarket boutiques and designer labels. Take a stroll along while you pocket some top brands and then rest your tired legs at mybar Chelsea as the aromas from the bar will whet your appetite.

Dishes include salmon carpaccio; grilled chicken breast and crayfish club sandwich. As the day advances, mybar transforms from a quiet breakfast venue into a livelier mode at lunchtime and then back again to a relaxing afternoon mood when they serve homemade sweets and herbal teas.

This longstanding restaurant situated near South Kensington Tube Station is described by its loyal supporters as being thoroughly reliable. Khan's of Kensington offers a really excellent variety of delicate Indian dishes at sensible value-for-money prices; however, the décor is minimalist in its appeal, providing a pleasant ambience.

Delectable appetisers are certainly such as the lamb seekh chaat with the succulent tandoori baked lamb kebabs offset by the taste of onions, green chillies, coriander leaves and tangy spices set the tone. Delicate flavours of spices also come through vividly in main courses of salmon ajwani tikka marinated with garlic, yogurt and lovage seeds, as do some of their more creative dishes like lobster malai curry cooked in a creamy sauce with cashew nuts, cumin and coriander, and officer lamb chops in a honey and soya sauce. An assortment of fresh, hand-made breads or rice flavoured with lime, saffron or mushrooms make superb accompaniments.

London's fashionable King's Road was home to the first Henry J Bean's outlet way back in 1985, now a growing establishment spread across major metropolis' across the world. The style can be defined as typical American bar and grill with burgers, steaks and hot dogs in the forefront, complemented by an extensive array of cocktails and spirits.

Nachos, the jumbo Cadillac of starters with paprika, tortilla chips, salsa, guacamole, melted cheese and sour cream finished with jalapeño peppers, olives and tender loving care line up alongside calamari and crab claws. United Plates of America is no longer a typo and these big plates are specially designed to encourage sharing; there's Chicago board of trade, prairie platter and sears towers, which take in anything from half rack of barbecue ribs to Aberdeen Angus burger patties and Cajun steak strips.

The music continues to be eclipsed by American ideas with classics, live music and DJs spinning the wheels well into the early hours.