A Bar with Shapes for a Name Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Modern Intimate Artistic A Bar with Shapes for a Name Haggerston $$$ Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road
Josephine Marylebone Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Elegant Classic Lively Josephine Marylebone Marylebone $$$ Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site, the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit
Lyaness Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Modern Waterfront Elegant Lyaness Bankside $$$ Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window
The Devonshire Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Lively Classic See & Be Seen The Devonshire Soho $$$ UK's No.1 gastropub 2026, the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it
The French House Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Classic Intimate Literary The French House Soho $$ Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s
Discount Suit Company Bar Bar Confronta Intimate Moody Convivial Discount Suit Company Aldgate $$$ Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope
Dishoom Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Convivial Lively Dishoom Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast
Em Sherif Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Elegant Convivial Destination Em Sherif Knightsbridge $$$$ Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods, the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.
Happiness Forgets Bar Bar Confronta Intimate Moody Convivial Happiness Forgets Hoxton $$$ Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
Maison Bertaux Cafe Cafe Confronta Classic Intimate Literary Maison Bertaux Soho $$ Greek Street's 1871 patisserie, London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs
Morito Exmouth Market Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Lively Convivial Chef Driven Morito Exmouth Market Clerkenwell $$ Sam and Sam Clark's tapas-bar sister to Moro, eight metres along the same row, the small-plate version of the same kitchen.
Tayēr + Elementary Bar Bar Confronta Modern Intimate Artistic Tayēr + Elementary Old Street $$$ World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half