Places in London

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

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

Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door, Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024

Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie, the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.

Shoreditch's whisky reference, 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table

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

Paddington Street modern Greek, sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.

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

Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms, wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.