Classic in London

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

Frith Street's 1959 jazz room, the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps

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

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

Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food

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

Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast

St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole

Greek Street's 1871 patisserie, London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs

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

The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre

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