Classic in London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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