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Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room — the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.

Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house — Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.

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

London's oldest restaurant — Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.

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

Three Michelin stars in the panelled drawing room of Mayfair's most discreet hotel — the defining London fine-dining address.