Classic in London

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

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

Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub, Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling

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

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food

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

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

St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole

Langton Street's Tuscan trattoria since 1975, Chelsea's Italian family room, fourth decade

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

Lowndes Street's Italian institution since 1995, the Belgravia trattoria that taught London regional pasta