Venues similar to Cédric Grolet at The Berkeley

Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship, modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling

Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian, one Michelin star held since 2012

The Brook Street Art Deco grande dame, afternoon tea in the Foyer, a Foyer Bar by Bryan O'Sullivan, and the most famous lobby in London.

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

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

Piccadilly's 1707 grocery, the food hall, the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon, the hampers everyone takes home

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

Greek Street's 1871 patisserie, London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs

A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room, Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen

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

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 Oetker Collection mansion at Hyde Park Corner, Regency interiors, a personal butler in every room, and Céleste under the cupola.

The only hotel ever granted a royal warrant, fourth-generation family-owned in Belgravia, and the address that hosted Catherine Middleton the night before the wedding.

The 2023 conversion of the Old War Office on Whitehall, Mauro Colagreco's Michelin-starred Saison, a Guerlain spa, and the most ambitious new opening in the city.