Mekane in London

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

Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road

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

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

Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site — the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit

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

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994 — the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road — house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch

Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room — the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in

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

Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki — the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement

World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half

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

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

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro — the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team — clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.

Wentworth Street's unmarked basement — the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope

Hoxton Square's basement — the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010

The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously

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

Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room — aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below