Venues similar to Umu

Endo Kazutoshi's rooftop Japanese inside Raffles at the OWO, the operating Endo room while Endo at the Rotunda rebuilds after the 2025 fire.

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

Adam Byatt's two-Michelin-star Clapham Old Town room, the most considered cooking south-west of the river.

Angela Hartnett's one-star Italian on Queen Street, the civilised Mayfair lunch the neighbourhood's regulars actually keep.

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

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

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.

Britain's oldest Indian restaurant, open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.

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