Andrew Edmunds Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Historic Romantic Intimate Andrew Edmunds Soho $$$ Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu — the last romantic room in old Soho
Antepliler Baklava Shop Scelta della redazione Shop Confronta Family Run Artisan Diaspora Antepliler Baklava Harringay $$ London's first authentic Antep baklavacı since 1993 — Murat Üstünsürmeli's Grand Parade pastry house
Borough Market Shop Scelta della redazione Shop Confronta Historic Artisan Producer Led Borough Market Borough $$$ London's oldest market — 4.5 acres of producer-fronted stalls under the Southwark railway arches
Cycene Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Intimate Modern Minimalist Cycene Shoreditch $$$$ A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School — cooking is the only headline
Josephine Marylebone Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Elegant Classic Lively Josephine Marylebone Marylebone $$$ Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site — the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit
Mangal II Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Family Run Intimate Chef Led Mangal II Dalston $$$ The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994 — the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to
Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Wine Led Bistro Magazine Room Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bloomsbury $$$ The wine-magazine bar — Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015
Roka Charlotte Street Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta See & Be Seen Modern Convivial Roka Charlotte Street Fitzrovia $$$$ Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki — the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement
Tayēr + Elementary Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Modern Intimate Artistic Tayēr + Elementary Old Street $$$ World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half
The Anchor & Hope Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Convivial Lively The Anchor & Hope Waterloo $$ The Cut's no-bookings gastropub — what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre
The Audley Public House Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant Artistic The Audley Public House Mayfair $$$ Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub — Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling
The Berkeley Hotel Scelta della redazione Hotel Confronta Iconic Elegant Contemporary The Berkeley Knightsbridge $$$$ The Maybourne sister to Connaught and Claridge's — Wilton Place, a rooftop pool over Hyde Park, and a 2024 redesign that finally looks contemporary.
The French House Bar Scelta della redazione Bar Confronta Classic Intimate Literary The French House Soho $$ Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout — the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s
The Harwood Arms Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant Intimate The Harwood Arms Fulham $$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub — Fulham backstreets, game and wild food
The Peninsula London Hotel Scelta della redazione Hotel Confronta New Elegant Destination The Peninsula London Belgravia $$$$ The billion-pound 2023 opening at Hyde Park Corner — Brooklands by Claude Bosi on the roof, and the most architecturally serious new hotel in W1 in decades.
The Wolseley Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant See & Be Seen The Wolseley Piccadilly $$$ Piccadilly's grand café — the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper
Balthazar London Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Lively Iconic Convivial Balthazar London Covent Garden $$$ Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie — the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.
Bar Italia Cafe Cafe Confronta Heritage Late Night No Bookings Bar Italia Soho $ Frith Street since 1949 — the espresso bar Soho is built around
Berry Bros & Rudd Shop Shop Confronta Historic Merchant Cellar Tour Berry Bros & Rudd St James's $$$$ Britain's oldest wine merchant — 3 St James's Street since 1698, Royal Warrants and a working cellar tour
Brown's Hotel Hotel Hotel Confronta Iconic Elegant Traditional Brown's Hotel Mayfair $$$$ London's oldest luxury hotel — 13 connected Georgian townhouses on Albemarle Street, a Michelin-starred Charlie's by Adam Byatt, and Rocco Forte stewardship.
Cédric Grolet at The Berkeley Cafe Cafe Confronta Modern Elegant See & Be Seen Cédric Grolet at The Berkeley Belgravia $$$$ The Berkeley's pastry counter — Grolet's first London room, the trompe-l'œil fruits the audience has only seen on Instagram
Claridge's Hotel Hotel Confronta Iconic Art Deco Elegant Claridge's Mayfair $$$$ The Brook Street Art Deco grande dame — afternoon tea in the Foyer, a Foyer Bar by Bryan O'Sullivan, and the most famous lobby in London.
Daylesford Pimlico Cafe Cafe Confronta Calm Elegant Neighbourhood Daylesford Pimlico Pimlico $$$ Carole Bamford's Pimlico Road farmshop and café — the smaller, calmer SW1 sister to the Notting Hill flagship.
Dishoom Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Convivial Lively Dishoom Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café — the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast
Diyarbakır Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Family Run Casual Diaspora Diyarbakır Restaurant Harringay $$ Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı — kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard
Em Sherif Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Elegant Convivial Destination Em Sherif Knightsbridge $$$$ Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods — the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.
Fortnum & Mason Shop Shop Confronta Classic Elegant See & Be Seen Fortnum & Mason Piccadilly $$$$ Piccadilly's 1707 grocery — the food hall, the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon, the hampers everyone takes home
Gökyüzü Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Family Run Polished Diaspora Gökyüzü Harringay $$ The Yavuz family's Green Lanes flagship since 1999 — the polished mainstream of London Turkish
Hawksmoor Spitalfields Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Steakhouse Institution Group Dining Hawksmoor Spitalfields Spitalfields $$$$ The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously
Hedonism Wines Shop Shop Confronta Fine Wine Rare Spirits Coravin Bar Hedonism Wines Mayfair $$$$ Davies Street's fine-wine and rare-spirits cathedral — Coravin tasting bar at the back
J Sheekey Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Elegant See & Be Seen J Sheekey Covent Garden $$$ St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution — Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole
José Bar Bar Confronta Lively Convivial Neighborhood José Bermondsey $$ Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011 — José Pizarro's pintxos counter
Kiln Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Fire Cooked Casual Kiln Soho $$ Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter — Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument
La Fromagerie Shop Shop Confronta Specialist Neighborhood Informed La Fromagerie Marylebone $$$ Moxon Street's cheese reference since 1992 — Patricia Michelson's affineur, walk-in tasting room
Lina Stores Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Deli Casual Pasta Lina Stores Soho $$ Pistachio-green Soho deli since 1944 — pasta as Italian commute
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.
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.
Padella Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Casual Queue Only Loud Padella Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ The fresh-pasta queue London actually accepts — Shoreditch sister of the Borough original
Raffles London at The OWO Hotel Hotel Confronta New Iconic Elegant Raffles London at The OWO Whitehall $$$$ The 2023 conversion of the Old War Office on Whitehall — Mauro Colagreco's Michelin-starred Saison, a Guerlain spa, and the most ambitious new opening in the city.
Riding House Fitzrovia Cafe Cafe Confronta Modern Convivial Lively Riding House Fitzrovia Fitzrovia $$$ 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 $$$ London's oldest restaurant — Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.
Scott's Mayfair Restaurant Restaurant Confronta See & Be Seen Iconic Seafood Scott's Mayfair Mayfair $$$$ Mount Street seafood and the city's most consequential lunch crowd — the Mayfair set-piece.
Smokestak Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Loud Industrial Casual Smokestak Shoreditch $$$ David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse — the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to
Sushi Tetsu Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Counter Only Destination Intimate Sushi Tetsu Clerkenwell $$$$ Seven seats, one chef, Edomae discipline — London's hardest reservation
Swift Soho Bar Bar Confronta Chef Led Intimate Candlelit Swift Soho Soho $$$ Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room — aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below
The Beaumont Hotel Hotel Confronta Intimate Elegant Art Deco The Beaumont Mayfair $$$$ Corbin and King's 1920s-styled Mayfair townhouse — a 73-room Art Deco hotel with an Antony Gormley sculpture you can sleep inside.
The Connaught Hotel Hotel Confronta Iconic Elegant Intimate The Connaught Mayfair $$$$ The Mayfair townhouse hotel — three Michelin stars in the dining room, the world's best bar downstairs, and the address that defines W1.
The Cow Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Lively Classic Cozy The Cow Notting Hill $$$ Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub — Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre
The Cross Keys Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Cozy Lively The Cross Keys Chelsea $$$ A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs
The Goring Hotel Hotel Confronta Iconic Elegant Traditional The Goring Belgravia $$$$ The only hotel ever granted a royal warrant — fourth-generation family-owned in Belgravia, and the address that hosted Catherine Middleton the night before the wedding.
The Lanesborough Hotel Hotel Confronta Iconic Elegant Traditional The Lanesborough Knightsbridge $$$$ The Oetker Collection mansion at Hyde Park Corner — Regency interiors, a personal butler in every room, and Céleste under the cupola.
The Orange Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Convivial Neighbourhood Elegant The Orange Pimlico $$$ Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms — wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.
The Pig's Ear Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Cozy Lively The Pig's Ear Chelsea $$$ The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub — Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu
The Wallace Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Elegant Chill Classic The Wallace Restaurant Marylebone $$$ The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection — Marylebone's quietest daytime room
Wiltons Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Iconic Institution Elegant Wiltons St James's $$$$ Since 1742 — Jermyn Street oysters, game in season, and a clubland Britain that has stopped existing almost everywhere else.