Best Historic Places in London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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