Classic in London

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

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

The organic Cotswold farm's Westbourne Grove farmshop and café, the audience's Saturday morning anchor

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

Piccadilly's 1707 grocery, the food hall, the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon, the hampers everyone takes home

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

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

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

The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection, Marylebone's quietest daytime room