Στέκια 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

The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads

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

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship — whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking

Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship — modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling

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

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

British ingredients, Mexican grammar — Santiago Lastra's Marylebone manifesto

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

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

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

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

A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room — Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen

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

UK's No.1 gastropub 2026 — the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it

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

Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026

Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian — one Michelin star held since 2012