Places in London

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

Anne-Sophie Pic's two-Michelin-star Four Seasons dining room — the Valence three-star register, in the City.

Pierre Gagnaire's three-Michelin-star Mayfair drawing room — the most theatrical fine-dining address in W1.

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

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

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

Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room — the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.

Rafael Cagali's two-Michelin-star tasting room inside the Town Hall Hotel — Bethnal Green's destination kitchen.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house — Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.

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

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

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