See & Be Seen in London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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