Romantic Bosphorus Dining

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

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

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room — Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in

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

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street — every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

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