Best Classic Places in London

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

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

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub — Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre

The organic Cotswold farm's Westbourne Grove farmshop and café — the audience's Saturday morning anchor

A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs

The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub — Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu

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

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

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

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

Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout — the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s

Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub — Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling

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

The Cut's no-bookings gastropub — what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre

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

Greek Street's 1871 patisserie — London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs

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