Beste Aussichten in London

Tom Sellers' two-Michelin-star tasting room — the chapter's South-Bank fine-dining anchor

Jonny Lake and Isa Bal's two-Michelin-star à la carte room — Fat Duck alumni at neighbourhood register

A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches — chef Steve Williams

London's oldest market — 4.5 acres of producer-fronted stalls under the Southwark railway arches

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window

The Cut's no-bookings gastropub — what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre

Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011 — José Pizarro's pintxos counter

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.

Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001

A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs

The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub — Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu

Langton Street's Tuscan trattoria since 1975 — Chelsea's Italian family room, fourth decade

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

Agostino Perrone's silver-trolley martini and a room that has spent a decade at or near the top of the World's 50 Best Bars list.

Nineteen seats around a single counter, two Michelin stars, and a tasting menu that reads like a daily field report from British producers.

Angela Hartnett's one-star Italian on Queen Street — the civilised Mayfair lunch the neighbourhood's regulars actually keep.

Since 1742 — Jermyn Street oysters, game in season, and a clubland Britain that has stopped existing almost everywhere else.

Mount Street seafood and the city's most consequential lunch crowd — the Mayfair set-piece.

The Mayfair townhouse hotel — three Michelin stars in the dining room, the world's best bar downstairs, and the address that defines W1.

The Brook Street Art Deco grande dame — afternoon tea in the Foyer, a Foyer Bar by Bryan O'Sullivan, and the most famous lobby in London.

Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub — Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling

Piccadilly's grand café — the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper

The Berkeley's pastry counter — Grolet's first London room, the trompe-l'œil fruits the audience has only seen on Instagram

Piccadilly's 1707 grocery — the food hall, the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon, the hampers everyone takes home

The Berkeley's flagship dining room — Marcus Wareing's Belgravia anchor since 2014

Kinnerton Street's claret-walled tasting room — Gordon Ramsay's Belgravia one-star since 2010

Lowndes Street's Italian institution since 1995 — the Belgravia trattoria that taught London regional pasta

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

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

Endo Kazutoshi's rooftop Japanese inside Raffles at the OWO — the operating Endo room while Endo at the Rotunda rebuilds after the 2025 fire.

Bruton Place Kyoto kaiseki — the discreet hidden door, the multi-course menu and the most considered Japanese dining in W1.

Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods — the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.

River Café DNA, hotel-restaurant comfort — Tuscan cooking on Park Lane

Mayfair mews chophouse since 1952 — beef Wellington and steak-and-kidney pie

Britain's oldest wine merchant — 3 St James's Street since 1698, Royal Warrants and a working cellar tour

Davies Street's fine-wine and rare-spirits cathedral — Coravin tasting bar at the back

Three Michelin stars on Park Lane — Ducasse's London flagship since 2010, run by Jean-Philippe Blondet.

Anne-Sophie Pic's two-Michelin-star Four Seasons dining room — the Valence three-star register, in the City.