Venues similar to Maison Bertaux

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

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

The fresh-pasta queue London actually accepts, Shoreditch sister of the Borough original

The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre

Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter, Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument

Erchen Chang and the Chung siblings' original Lexington Street bun counter, Bib Gourmand Taiwanese, queue-only on the corner

Pistachio-green Soho deli since 1944, pasta as Italian commute