Historic in London

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

London's oldest market, 4.5 acres of producer-fronted stalls under the Southwark railway arches

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

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

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

Britain's oldest wine merchant, 3 St James's Street since 1698, Royal Warrants and a working cellar tour

Bloomsbury French, the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse.

London's oldest restaurant, Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.

Fergus Henderson's nose-to-tail manifesto since 1994, the white-walled Smithfield room that wrote modern British cooking.

Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house, Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.

Britain's oldest Indian restaurant, open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.