A Bar with Shapes for a Name Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Modern Intimate Artistic A Bar with Shapes for a Name Haggerston $$$ Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road
American Bar at The Savoy Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen American Bar at The Savoy Strand $$$$ The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
Lyaness Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Modern Waterfront Elegant Lyaness Bankside $$$ Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window
Ronnie Scott's Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Intimate Literary Ronnie Scott's Soho $$$ Frith Street's 1959 jazz room — the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps
Sessions Arts Club Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare See & Be Seen Artistic Historic Sessions Arts Club Clerkenwell $$$$ A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room — Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen
Tayēr + Elementary Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Modern Intimate Artistic Tayēr + Elementary Old Street $$$ World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half
The Anchor & Hope Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Convivial Lively The Anchor & Hope Waterloo $$ The Cut's no-bookings gastropub — what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre
The Devonshire Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Lively Classic See & Be Seen The Devonshire Soho $$$ UK's No.1 gastropub 2026 — the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it
The French House Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Intimate Literary The French House Soho $$ Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout — the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s
3 Greek Street Bar Bar Compare Whisky Speakeasy Merchant Bar 3 Greek Street Soho $$$ Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door — Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024
40 Maltby Street Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Natural Wine No Reservations 40 Maltby Street Bermondsey $$$ A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches — chef Steve Williams
Black Rock Bar Bar Compare Whisky No Frills Expert Led Black Rock Shoreditch $$$ Shoreditch's whisky reference — 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table
Discount Suit Company Bar Bar Compare Intimate Moody Convivial Discount Suit Company Aldgate $$$ Wentworth Street's unmarked basement — the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope
Happiness Forgets Bar Bar Compare Intimate Moody Convivial Happiness Forgets Hoxton $$$ Hoxton Square's basement — the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
Sager + Wilde Bar Bar Compare Natural Wine Industrial Neighbourhood Sager + Wilde Hackney $$ Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wildeve's Hackney Road wine bar — the East London natural-wine reference since 2013
The Cow Restaurant Restaurant Compare Lively Classic Cozy The Cow Notting Hill $$$ Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub — Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre
The Cross Keys Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Cozy Lively The Cross Keys Chelsea $$$ A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs
The Pig's Ear Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Cozy Lively The Pig's Ear Chelsea $$$ The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub — Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu