Places in London

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

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking

Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship, modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline

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

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window

Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room, the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred room, Charlotte Street since 1991, in its 35th anniversary year

Tom Sellers' two-Michelin-star tasting room, the chapter's South-Bank fine-dining anchor

Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki, the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement

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

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