Adresses in London

Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho

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

London's oldest market, 4.5 acres of producer-fronted stalls under the Southwark railway arches

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

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

The wine-magazine bar, Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015

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

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

Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door, Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024

A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches, chef Steve Williams

Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie, the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.

Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated, the Spanish bar London learned the format from

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.

The organic Cotswold farm's Westbourne Grove farmshop and café, the audience's Saturday morning anchor

Carole Bamford's Pimlico Road farmshop and café, the smaller, calmer SW1 sister to the Notting Hill flagship.

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

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

Langton Street's Tuscan trattoria since 1975, Chelsea's Italian family room, fourth decade

Moxon Street's cheese reference since 1992, Patricia Michelson's affineur, walk-in tasting room

The larger Greek Street sister, 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen

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

Great Titchfield Street's all-day brasserie, the Fitzrovia office and the Sunday brunch in one room

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

David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse, the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to

Fergus Henderson's nose-to-tail manifesto since 1994, the white-walled Smithfield room that wrote modern British cooking.

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

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

Mayfair mews chophouse since 1952, beef Wellington and steak-and-kidney pie

Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms, wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.

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

The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection, Marylebone's quietest daytime room