Adresses in London

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

London's first authentic Antep baklavacı since 1993 — Murat Üstünsürmeli's Grand Parade pastry house

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

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School — cooking is the only headline

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Cut's no-bookings gastropub — what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre

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

The Maybourne sister to Connaught and Claridge's — Wilton Place, a rooftop pool over Hyde Park, and a 2024 redesign that finally looks contemporary.

Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout — the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s

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

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.

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