Mekane in London

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

Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian — the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.

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

James Lowe's one-Michelin-star Shoreditch room — the founding text of the East London modern-British school.

Pierre Gagnaire's three-Michelin-star Mayfair drawing room — the most theatrical fine-dining address in W1.

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

The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads

Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu — the last romantic room in old Soho

Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship — modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School — cooking is the only headline

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

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

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

Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room — the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred room — Charlotte Street since 1991, in its 35th anniversary year

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

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

The Maybourne sister to Connaught and Claridge's — Wilton Place, a rooftop pool over Hyde Park, and a 2024 redesign that finally looks contemporary.

Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026

The billion-pound 2023 opening at Hyde Park Corner — Brooklands by Claude Bosi on the roof, and the most architecturally serious new hotel in W1 in decades.

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

Rafael Cagali's two-Michelin-star tasting room inside the Town Hall Hotel — Bethnal Green's destination kitchen.

Adam Byatt's two-Michelin-star Clapham Old Town room — the most considered cooking south-west of the river.

London's oldest luxury hotel — 13 connected Georgian townhouses on Albemarle Street, a Michelin-starred Charlie's by Adam Byatt, and Rocco Forte stewardship.

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.

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.

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

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.

Bloomsbury French — the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse.

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

The 2023 conversion of the Old War Office on Whitehall — Mauro Colagreco's Michelin-starred Saison, a Guerlain spa, and the most ambitious new opening in the city.

Corbin and King's 1920s-styled Mayfair townhouse — a 73-room Art Deco hotel with an Antony Gormley sculpture you can sleep inside.

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

The only hotel ever granted a royal warrant — fourth-generation family-owned in Belgravia, and the address that hosted Catherine Middleton the night before the wedding.

The Oetker Collection mansion at Hyde Park Corner — Regency interiors, a personal butler in every room, and Céleste under the cupola.

Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house — Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.

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

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

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