Venues similar to The Anchor & Hope

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre

A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs

The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu

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

Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site, the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit

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

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

Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026

The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to

Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in

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

Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011, José Pizarro's pintxos counter

Paddington Street modern Greek, sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.

Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods, the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.