Em Sherif

Northern Chinese on level 33 of The Shard — the view-room and the dish where guests in town for a single weekend take their out-of-town parents.

JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street — Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves.

London's oldest restaurant — Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.

Three Michelin stars in the panelled drawing room of Mayfair's most discreet hotel — the defining London fine-dining address.

Andrew Wong's two-Michelin-star pan-regional Chinese on Wilton Road — the first Chinese restaurant outside Asia to hold two stars.

Britain's oldest Indian restaurant — open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.