Classic in London

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

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

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