Places in London

The Maybourne sister to Connaught and Claridge's, Wilton Place, a rooftop pool over Hyde Park, and a 2024 redesign that finally looks contemporary.

The billion-pound 2023 opening at Hyde Park Corner, Brooklands by Claude Bosi on the roof, and the most architecturally serious new hotel in W1 in decades.

London's first authentic Antep baklavacı since 1993, Murat Üstünsürmeli's Grand Parade pastry house

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline

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

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

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

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 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.

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

The only hotel ever granted a royal warrant, fourth-generation family-owned in Belgravia, and the address that hosted Catherine Middleton the night before the wedding.

The Oetker Collection mansion at Hyde Park Corner, Regency interiors, a personal butler in every room, and Céleste under the cupola.

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

The Berkeley's pastry counter, Grolet's first London room, the trompe-l'œil fruits the audience has only seen on Instagram

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.

The organic Cotswold farm's Westbourne Grove farmshop and café, the audience's Saturday morning anchor

Carole Bamford's Pimlico Road farmshop and café, the smaller, calmer SW1 sister to the Notting Hill flagship.

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

Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı, kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard

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

Greek Street's 1871 patisserie, London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs

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

Seven seats, one chef, Edomae discipline, London's hardest reservation

Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below

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

Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms, wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.