Andrew Edmunds Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer Historic Romantic Intimate Andrew Edmunds Soho $$$ Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu — the last romantic room in old Soho
Antepliler Baklava Shop Choix de la rédaction Shop Comparer Family Run Artisan Diaspora Antepliler Baklava Harringay $$ London's first authentic Antep baklavacı since 1993 — Murat Üstünsürmeli's Grand Parade pastry house
Bocca di Lupo Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer Chef Led Classic Convivial Bocca di Lupo Soho $$$ Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street — every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep
Borough Market Shop Choix de la rédaction Shop Comparer Historic Artisan Producer Led Borough Market Borough $$$ London's oldest market — 4.5 acres of producer-fronted stalls under the Southwark railway arches
Cycene Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer Chef Led Intimate Modern Minimalist Cycene Shoreditch $$$$ A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School — cooking is the only headline
Josephine Marylebone Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer Elegant Classic Lively Josephine Marylebone Marylebone $$$ Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site — the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit
Mangal II Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer Family Run Intimate Chef Led Mangal II Dalston $$$ The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994 — the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to
Mountain Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer Chef Led Modern Fire Cooked Mountain Soho $$$$ Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room — the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in
Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bar Choix de la rédaction Bar Comparer Wine Led Bistro Magazine Room Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bloomsbury $$$ The wine-magazine bar — Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015
Quo Vadis Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer Historic Chef Led Classic Quo Vadis Soho $$$ Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room — the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026
Roka Charlotte Street Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer See & Be Seen Modern Convivial Roka Charlotte Street Fitzrovia $$$$ Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki — the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement
The Anchor & Hope Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer Classic Convivial Lively The Anchor & Hope Waterloo $$ The Cut's no-bookings gastropub — what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre
The Audley Public House Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer Classic Elegant Artistic The Audley Public House Mayfair $$$ Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub — Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling
The Berkeley Hotel Choix de la rédaction Hotel Comparer Iconic Elegant Contemporary The Berkeley Knightsbridge $$$$ The Maybourne sister to Connaught and Claridge's — Wilton Place, a rooftop pool over Hyde Park, and a 2024 redesign that finally looks contemporary.
The French House Bar Choix de la rédaction Bar Comparer Classic Intimate Literary The French House Soho $$ Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout — the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s
The Harwood Arms Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer Classic Elegant Intimate The Harwood Arms Fulham $$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub — Fulham backstreets, game and wild food
The Peninsula London Hotel Choix de la rédaction Hotel Comparer New Elegant Destination The Peninsula London Belgravia $$$$ The billion-pound 2023 opening at Hyde Park Corner — Brooklands by Claude Bosi on the roof, and the most architecturally serious new hotel in W1 in decades.
The Wolseley Restaurant Choix de la rédaction Restaurant Comparer Classic Elegant See & Be Seen The Wolseley Piccadilly $$$ Piccadilly's grand café — the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper