Greek restaurants near Oxford Street are about to matter more than ever. From 26 October 2026 the busiest stretch of London’s most famous shopping street goes car free, and pavements that already feel full on a Saturday will carry even more people. The good news is that some of the best Greek food in London sits five to twelve minutes on foot from Oxford Circus, Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road. Here is what is changing and where to escape for a proper Greek plate when the crowds get too much.
Oxford Street has never been a place where Greeks in London linger. You go for the shops, you get out. Pedestrianisation changes that: without traffic the street becomes somewhere to walk slowly, and when you walk slowly you get hungry. Oxford Street itself has no serious Greek restaurant, but the neighbourhoods that touch it, Fitzrovia, Bloomsbury, Marylebone and Mayfair, hold several of the Greek restaurants that Greek List readers rate highest. All the places below are Greek List members with confirmed addresses.
According to Secret London, the roughly one kilometre stretch between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street, which includes Oxford Circus and the junction with Regent Street, becomes traffic free on 26 October 2026. Cars, taxis, buses, bikes and scooters are all excluded. Emergency vehicles keep access, and deliveries are allowed only overnight, between midnight and 7am. Buses that currently run along this part of Oxford Street are being rerouted along Wigmore Street and the parallel roads to the north.
This first phase is a live test running through to spring 2027, with temporary seating, planters and bollards going in before any permanent redesign, led by the Oxford Street Development Corporation set up by Mayor Sadiq Khan. For shoppers the effect is simple: you can cross wherever you like, but you cannot hop on a bus along the central stretch, so knowing the side streets, and the Greek kitchens on them, becomes useful.
Getting there: Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central, Victoria), Bond Street (Central, Elizabeth, Jubilee) and Tottenham Court Road (Central, Elizabeth, Northern) all remain open throughout the works.
Walk north from the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street and within five minutes you reach Percy Street, a quiet row of Georgian houses that has hosted Elysée for decades. This is the Greek restaurant many Greeks in London think of first: a family business, a menu of grilled meats, meze and slow cooked classics, and nights that end with live music and dancing rather than a quiet dessert. Its rooftop terrace is one of the few places in the West End where you can sit above the street with a Greek coffee. For a long Greek dinner after shopping, this is the closest answer to Oxford Street.
Getting there: 5 minutes on foot from Tottenham Court Road station, or 8 minutes from Oxford Circus along Oxford Street and up Rathbone Place.
Greek stop nearby: Elysée on 13 Percy Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T 1DP. Greek and Cypriot cooking, live music nights and a rooftop terrace.
Cross Tottenham Court Road and you are in Bloomsbury, where Store Street has become one of the nicest little eating streets in central London. The Life Goddess is a Greek deli and restaurant in one: shelves of olive oil, honey, wine and cheese on one side, tables for brunch, lunch and dinner on the other. Pick up proper feta before heading home, or come for the Greek List brunch party on Sunday 11 October. When the Oxford Street crowds get too much, Store Street is a calmer world six minutes away.
Getting there: 4 minutes on foot from Tottenham Court Road station, or 3 minutes from Goodge Street.
Greek stop nearby: The Life Goddess on 29 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7QB. Greek deli, restaurant and wine shop, and the venue of the Greek Brunch Party on 11 October.
From Bond Street station head north through Marylebone for ten minutes and you reach Paddington Street, quietly the most Greek address in central London. Opso brought modern Greek cooking to Marylebone with small plates, Greek brunch and a serious wine list, and Kima, from the same team, is a modern Greek seafood restaurant where fish is sold by the piece and cooked over fire. The Hellenic Centre sits on the same street, which is why the events calendar below has so many Marylebone entries. If you only remember one of the Greek restaurants near Oxford Street, remember Paddington Street, because it gives you two.
Getting there: 10 minutes on foot from Bond Street station, or 6 minutes from Baker Street. Marylebone High Street runs parallel.
Not every stop needs to be a full meal. South of Oxford Street, through the quieter streets of Mayfair, Shepherd Market is a small village square hidden behind Piccadilly, and Chill House Coffee on Shepherd Street is the Greek coffee shop that Greeks working in Mayfair treat as their local. Freddo espresso and freddo cappuccino made properly, Greek pastries and a pace that is the exact opposite of Oxford Circus. A good final stop before heading home from Green Park.
Getting there: 5 minutes on foot from Green Park station, 12 minutes from Bond Street through Mayfair.
Greek stop nearby: Chill House Coffee on 10 Shepherd Street, Mayfair, London W1J 7HY. Greek coffee, freddo and pastries in Shepherd Market.
Go early: the pedestrianised stretch is calmest before 11am, and most of the Greek restaurants near Oxford Street here serve coffee and brunch from the morning. The Elizabeth line at Bond Street or Tottenham Court Road drops you at either end of the traffic free zone. Bus stops along Wigmore Street may have moved, so check TfL before you travel. And book ahead for group dinners: Fitzrovia and Marylebone fill up on Friday and Saturday nights, and the Christmas lights season starts soon after the street goes car free.
For more ideas across the city read our guides to Greek Sunday lunch in London, where to get freddo in London and Greek restaurants in Bloomsbury. Between them and the Greek restaurants near Oxford Street above, you need never settle for a chain sandwich in the West End again.
The Greek List events page is the most complete list of Greek events in the UK, and the next ten days are busy, with several of them a short walk from the Greek restaurants near Oxford Street above:
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