Places in Mayfair

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

London's oldest luxury hotel — 13 connected Georgian townhouses on Albemarle Street, a Michelin-starred Charlie's by Adam Byatt, and Rocco Forte stewardship.

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.

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

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

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.

The 2023 conversion of the Old War Office on Whitehall — Mauro Colagreco's Michelin-starred Saison, a Guerlain spa, and the most ambitious new opening in the city.

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

Corbin and King's 1920s-styled Mayfair townhouse — a 73-room Art Deco hotel with an Antony Gormley sculpture you can sleep inside.

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

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

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

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.

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