Venues similar to The Anchor & Hope

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre

A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs

The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu

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

Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub, Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling

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

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

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

Piccadilly's grand café, the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper

St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole

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

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

The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to

Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in

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

Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011, José Pizarro's pintxos counter

Paddington Street modern Greek, sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.

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