French in London

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

Anne-Sophie Pic's two-Michelin-star Four Seasons dining room — the Valence three-star register, in the City.

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

Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu — the last romantic room in old Soho

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

Three Michelin stars in the panelled drawing room of Mayfair's most discreet hotel — the defining London fine-dining address.

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

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred room — Charlotte Street since 1991, in its 35th anniversary year

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

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

Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie — the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro — the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

Bloomsbury French — the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse.

Kinnerton Street's claret-walled tasting room — Gordon Ramsay's Belgravia one-star since 2010

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

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

The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection — Marylebone's quietest daytime room