Venues similar to José

Seymour Place's Basque pintxos counter, the txuleta and the txakoli on the same Marylebone bar

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

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

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

Sam and Sam Clark's tapas-bar sister to Moro, eight metres along the same row, the small-plate version of the same kitchen.

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

Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope

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

Moxon Street's cheese reference since 1992, Patricia Michelson's affineur, walk-in tasting room

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

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

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window

Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated, the Spanish bar London learned the format from

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

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

Lowndes Street's Italian institution since 1995, the Belgravia trattoria that taught London regional pasta

Langton Street's Tuscan trattoria since 1975, Chelsea's Italian family room, fourth decade

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

Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wildeve's Hackney Road wine bar, the East London natural-wine reference since 2013

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