American Bar at The Savoy
Strand
The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
Two fortnights a year, February and September, when the front-row crowd colonises Mount Street and Mayfair: Scott's, Claridge's, Mount Street Restaurant, Cipriani, the Connaught Bar after the after-party.
Strand
The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
Soho
UK's No.1 gastropub 2026, the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it
Marylebone
Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site, the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit
Bermondsey
A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches, chef Steve Williams
Mayfair
Mount Street seafood and the city's most consequential lunch crowd, the Mayfair set-piece.
Notting Hill
Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre
Chelsea
A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs
Chelsea
The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu
Clerkenwell
A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room, Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen
Bankside
Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window
Waterloo
The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre
Notting Hill
Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship, modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling
Notting Hill
Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026
Chelsea
Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001
Marylebone
Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian, one Michelin star held since 2012