Locali in London

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

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window

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

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

Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast

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

Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods, the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.

Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010

Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011, José Pizarro's pintxos counter

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

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

The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre