Places in London

Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian, the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.

James Lowe's one-Michelin-star Shoreditch room, the founding text of the East London modern-British school.

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

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

The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads

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

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

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking

Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship, modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling

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

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

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

British ingredients, Mexican grammar, Santiago Lastra's Marylebone manifesto

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

Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road, house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch

Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room, the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in

The wine-magazine bar, Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015

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

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki, the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement

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

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

UK's No.1 gastropub 2026, the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it

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

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food

Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026

Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian, one Michelin star held since 2012