Lyaness Bar Choix de la rédaction Bar Comparer Modern Waterfront Elegant Lyaness Bankside $$$ Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window
Sessions Arts Club Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer See & Be Seen Artistic Historic Sessions Arts Club Clerkenwell $$$$ A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room, Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen
The Anchor & Hope Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer Classic Convivial Lively The Anchor & Hope Waterloo $$ The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre
The French House Bar Choix de la rédaction Bar Comparer Classic Intimate Literary The French House Soho $$ Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s
3 Greek Street Bar Bar Comparer Whisky Speakeasy Merchant Bar 3 Greek Street Soho $$$ Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door, Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024
40 Maltby Street Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Chef Led Natural Wine No Reservations 40 Maltby Street Bermondsey $$$ A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches, chef Steve Williams
Happiness Forgets Bar Bar Comparer Intimate Moody Convivial Happiness Forgets Hoxton $$$ Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
The Cow Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Lively Classic Cozy The Cow Notting Hill $$$ Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre