Iconic Restaurant in London

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

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

JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street, Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves.

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

Northern Chinese on level 33 of The Shard, the view-room and the dish where guests in town for a single weekend take their out-of-town parents.

Mount Street seafood and the city's most consequential lunch crowd, the Mayfair set-piece.

Since 1742, Jermyn Street oysters, game in season, and a clubland Britain that has stopped existing almost everywhere else.