A Bar with Shapes for a Name Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Modern Intimate Artistic A Bar with Shapes for a Name Haggerston $$$ Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road Same category
Lyaness Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Modern Waterfront Elegant Lyaness Bankside $$$ Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window Same category
Discount Suit Company Bar Bar Compare Intimate Moody Convivial Discount Suit Company Aldgate $$$ Wentworth Street's unmarked basement — the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope Same category
Happiness Forgets Bar Bar Compare Intimate Moody Convivial Happiness Forgets Hoxton $$$ Hoxton Square's basement — the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010 Same category
Ronnie Scott's Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Intimate Literary Ronnie Scott's Soho $$$ Frith Street's 1959 jazz room — the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps Same category
Dorian Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Lively Modern Intimate Dorian Notting Hill $$$ Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie — wood-fired grill, retained star 2026 Similar vibe
Jikoni Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Modern Cozy Jikoni Marylebone $$$ Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room — Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in Similar vibe
Black Rock Bar Bar Compare Whisky No Frills Expert Led Black Rock Shoreditch $$$ Shoreditch's whisky reference — 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table Same category
Swift Soho Bar Bar Compare Chef Led Intimate Candlelit Swift Soho Soho $$$ Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room — aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below Same category
The French House Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Intimate Literary The French House Soho $$ Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout — the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s Same category
Trishna Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Modern Intimate Trishna Marylebone $$$ Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian — one Michelin star held since 2012 Similar vibe
Six Portland Road Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Classic Cozy Six Portland Road Holland Park $$$ The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to Similar vibe
Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Wine Led Bistro Magazine Room Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bloomsbury $$$ The wine-magazine bar — Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015 Same category
Core by Clare Smyth Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Intimate Modern Core by Clare Smyth Notting Hill $$$$ Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship — modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling Similar vibe
The Ledbury Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Intimate Modern The Ledbury Notting Hill $$$$ Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026 Similar vibe
American Bar at The Savoy Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen American Bar at The Savoy Strand $$$$ The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads Same category
The Devonshire Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Lively Classic See & Be Seen The Devonshire Soho $$$ UK's No.1 gastropub 2026 — the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it Same price range
3 Greek Street Bar Bar Compare Whisky Speakeasy Merchant Bar 3 Greek Street Soho $$$ Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door — Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024 Same category
BiBi Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin One Star Chef Driven Modern BiBi Mayfair $$$$ Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian — the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021. Similar vibe
The Connaught Bar Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Elegant Iconic Destination The Connaught Bar Mayfair $$$$ Agostino Perrone's silver-trolley martini and a room that has spent a decade at or near the top of the World's 50 Best Bars list. Same category