French in London

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

Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026

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

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

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

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

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

Great Titchfield Street's all-day brasserie, the Fitzrovia office and the Sunday brunch in one room

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

The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection, Marylebone's quietest daytime room