Best Views in London

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

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

Langton Street's Tuscan trattoria since 1975 — Chelsea's Italian family room, fourth decade

Three Michelin stars in the panelled drawing room of Mayfair's most discreet hotel — the defining London fine-dining address.

Agostino Perrone's silver-trolley martini and a room that has spent a decade at or near the top of the World's 50 Best Bars list.

Nineteen seats around a single counter, two Michelin stars, and a tasting menu that reads like a daily field report from British producers.

Angela Hartnett's one-star Italian on Queen Street — the civilised Mayfair lunch the neighbourhood's regulars actually keep.

Since 1742 — Jermyn Street oysters, game in season, and a clubland Britain that has stopped existing almost everywhere else.

Mount Street seafood and the city's most consequential lunch crowd — the Mayfair set-piece.

The Mayfair townhouse hotel — three Michelin stars in the dining room, the world's best bar downstairs, and the address that defines W1.

The Brook Street Art Deco grande dame — afternoon tea in the Foyer, a Foyer Bar by Bryan O'Sullivan, and the most famous lobby in London.

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

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

The Berkeley's pastry counter — Grolet's first London room, the trompe-l'œil fruits the audience has only seen on Instagram

Piccadilly's 1707 grocery — the food hall, the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon, the hampers everyone takes home

The Berkeley's flagship dining room — Marcus Wareing's Belgravia anchor since 2014

Kinnerton Street's claret-walled tasting room — Gordon Ramsay's Belgravia one-star since 2010

Lowndes Street's Italian institution since 1995 — the Belgravia trattoria that taught London regional pasta

JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street — Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves.

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

Endo Kazutoshi's rooftop Japanese inside Raffles at the OWO — the operating Endo room while Endo at the Rotunda rebuilds after the 2025 fire.

Bruton Place Kyoto kaiseki — the discreet hidden door, the multi-course menu and the most considered Japanese dining in W1.

Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods — the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.

River Café DNA, hotel-restaurant comfort — Tuscan cooking on Park Lane

Mayfair mews chophouse since 1952 — beef Wellington and steak-and-kidney pie

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

Davies Street's fine-wine and rare-spirits cathedral — Coravin tasting bar at the back

Three Michelin stars on Park Lane — Ducasse's London flagship since 2010, run by Jean-Philippe Blondet.

Andrew Wong's two-Michelin-star pan-regional Chinese on Wilton Road — the first Chinese restaurant outside Asia to hold two stars.

Carole Bamford's Pimlico Road farmshop and café — the smaller, calmer SW1 sister to the Notting Hill flagship.

Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms — wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.

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

Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site — the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit

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

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

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

Moxon Street's cheese reference since 1992 — Patricia Michelson's affineur, walk-in tasting room

Seymour Place's Basque pintxos counter — the txuleta and the txakoli on the same Marylebone bar

Paddington Street modern Greek — sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.

British ingredients, Mexican grammar — Santiago Lastra's Marylebone manifesto

Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican — generous, regional, unfussy

Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian — the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.

Adam Byatt's two-Michelin-star Clapham Old Town room — the most considered cooking south-west of the river.