American Bar at The Savoy
Strand
The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
Two fortnights a year, February and September, when the front-row crowd colonises Mount Street and Mayfair: Scott's, Claridge's, Mount Street Restaurant, Cipriani, the Connaught Bar after the after-party.
Strand
The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
Marylebone
Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site, the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit
Bermondsey
A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches, chef Steve Williams
Mayfair
Mount Street seafood and the city's most consequential lunch crowd, the Mayfair set-piece.
Notting Hill
Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre
Chelsea
A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs
Chelsea
The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu
Clerkenwell
A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room, Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen
Bankside
Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window
Waterloo
The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre
Notting Hill
Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship, modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling
Notting Hill
Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026
Chelsea
Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001
Marylebone
Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian, one Michelin star held since 2012
Piccadilly
Piccadilly's grand café, the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper