Lugares in London

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking

Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship, modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling

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

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

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road, house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch

Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room, the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001

Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki, the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement

A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room, Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen

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

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican, generous, regional, unfussy

Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team, clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.

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

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

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

Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression, Spitalfields

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