A Bar with Shapes for a Name Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Modern Intimate Artistic A Bar with Shapes for a Name Haggerston $$$ Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road
Andrew Edmunds Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Historic Romantic Intimate Andrew Edmunds Soho $$$ Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho
Bocca di Lupo Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Classic Convivial Bocca di Lupo Soho $$$ Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep
Dorian Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Lively Modern Intimate Dorian Notting Hill $$$ Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026
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
Mangal II Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Family Run Intimate Chef Led Mangal II Dalston $$$ The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to
Manteca Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Nose To Tail Wood Fire Buzzy Manteca Shoreditch $$$ Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road, house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch
Moro Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Iconic Chef Driven Convivial Moro Clerkenwell $$$ Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room, the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.
Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Wine Led Bistro Magazine Room Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bloomsbury $$$ The wine-magazine bar, Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015
Quo Vadis Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Historic Chef Led Classic Quo Vadis Soho $$$ Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026
Ronnie Scott's Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Classic Intimate Literary Ronnie Scott's Soho $$$ Frith Street's 1959 jazz room, the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps
Tayēr + Elementary Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Modern Intimate Artistic Tayēr + Elementary Old Street $$$ World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half
The Audley Public House Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant Artistic The Audley Public House Mayfair $$$ Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub, Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling
The Harwood Arms Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant Intimate The Harwood Arms Fulham $$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food
The Wolseley Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant See & Be Seen The Wolseley Piccadilly $$$ Piccadilly's grand café, the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper
Trishna Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Elegant Modern Intimate Trishna Marylebone $$$ Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian, one Michelin star held since 2012
107 Wine Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Chef Residency Natural Wine Tiny Room 107 Wine Lower Clapton $$$ P. Franco's successor at 107 Lower Clapton, a 25-cover wine shop with a hot plate at the back, chef residencies kept
3 Greek Street Bar Bar Confronta Whisky Speakeasy Merchant Bar 3 Greek Street Soho $$$ Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door, Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024
40 Maltby Street Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Natural Wine No Reservations 40 Maltby Street Bermondsey $$$ A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches, chef Steve Williams
Balthazar London Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Lively Iconic Convivial Balthazar London Covent Garden $$$ Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie, the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.
Barrafina Dean Street Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Counter Dining Lively Casual Barrafina Dean Street Soho $$$ Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated, the Spanish bar London learned the format from
Black Rock Bar Bar Confronta Whisky No Frills Expert Led Black Rock Shoreditch $$$ Shoreditch's whisky reference, 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table
Brawn Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Natural Wine Intimate Brawn Bethnal Green $$$ Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen
Cavita Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Modern Mexican Tortillas Mezcal Cavita Marylebone $$$ Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican, generous, regional, unfussy
Cora Pearl Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Clubby Elegant Cora Pearl Covent Garden $$$ Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team, clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.
Discount Suit Company Bar Bar Confronta Intimate Moody Convivial Discount Suit Company Aldgate $$$ Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope
Donostia Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Specialist Convivial Informed Donostia Marylebone $$$ Seymour Place's Basque pintxos counter, the txuleta and the txakoli on the same Marylebone bar
Happiness Forgets Bar Bar Confronta Intimate Moody Convivial Happiness Forgets Hoxton $$$ Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
J Sheekey Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant See & Be Seen J Sheekey Covent Garden $$$ St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole
Jikoni Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Modern Cozy Jikoni Marylebone $$$ Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in
La Famiglia Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Convivial Neighborhood La Famiglia Chelsea $$$ Langton Street's Tuscan trattoria since 1975, Chelsea's Italian family room, fourth decade
Noble Rot Soho Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Wine Led Historic Room Burgundy Deep Noble Rot Soho Soho $$$ The larger Greek Street sister, 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen
Opso Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Modern Convivial Elegant Opso Marylebone $$$ Paddington Street modern Greek, sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.
Otto's Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Historic Chef Driven Otto's Bloomsbury $$$ Bloomsbury French, the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse.
Riding House Fitzrovia Cafe Cafe Confronta Modern Convivial Lively Riding House Fitzrovia Fitzrovia $$$ Great Titchfield Street's all-day brasserie, the Fitzrovia office and the Sunday brunch in one room
Rules Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Iconic Historic Elegant Rules Covent Garden $$$ London's oldest restaurant, Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.
Six Portland Road Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Classic Cozy Six Portland Road Holland Park $$$ The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to
Smokestak Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Loud Industrial Casual Smokestak Shoreditch $$$ David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse, the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to
Som Saa Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Regional Chef Favourite Spicy Som Saa Spitalfields $$$ Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression, Spitalfields
St JOHN Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Iconic Michelin Starred Chef Driven St JOHN Clerkenwell $$$ Fergus Henderson's nose-to-tail manifesto since 1994, the white-walled Smithfield room that wrote modern British cooking.
Sumi Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Sushi Casual Neighbourhood Sumi Notting Hill $$$ Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual, sushi without the omakase ceremony
Swift Soho Bar Bar Confronta Chef Led Intimate Candlelit Swift Soho Soho $$$ Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below
The Cow Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Lively Classic Cozy The Cow Notting Hill $$$ Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre
The Guinea Grill Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Heritage Grill Room Old School The Guinea Grill Mayfair $$$ Mayfair mews chophouse since 1952, beef Wellington and steak-and-kidney pie
The Orange Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Convivial Neighbourhood Elegant The Orange Pimlico $$$ Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms, wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.
The Quality Chop House Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Historic Chef Driven Intimate The Quality Chop House Farringdon $$$ Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house, Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.
Veeraswamy Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Iconic Elegant Historic Veeraswamy Mayfair $$$ Britain's oldest Indian restaurant, open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.
Zafferano Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant Convivial Zafferano Belgravia $$$ Lowndes Street's Italian institution since 1995, the Belgravia trattoria that taught London regional pasta