Venues similar to José

Seymour Place's Basque pintxos counter, the txuleta and the txakoli on the same Marylebone bar

Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s

The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre

Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast

Sam and Sam Clark's tapas-bar sister to Moro, eight metres along the same row, the small-plate version of the same kitchen.

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

Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope

Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010

Great Titchfield Street's all-day brasserie, the Fitzrovia office and the Sunday brunch in one room

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

World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half

Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road