Places in London

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

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

Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team, clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.

St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole

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