Classic in London

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

Frith Street's 1959 jazz room, the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps

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

UK's No.1 gastropub 2026, the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it

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

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

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

A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs

The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu