Places in London

The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads

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

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

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

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

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

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

UK's No.1 gastropub 2026, the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it

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

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

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

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