Venues similar to Moro

Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house, Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.

Fergus Henderson's nose-to-tail manifesto since 1994, the white-walled Smithfield room that wrote modern British cooking.

Northern Chinese on level 33 of The Shard, the view-room and the dish where guests in town for a single weekend take their out-of-town parents.

London's oldest restaurant, Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.

Britain's oldest Indian restaurant, open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.

JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street, Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves.

Three Michelin stars in the panelled drawing room of Mayfair's most discreet hotel, the defining London fine-dining address.

Nineteen seats around a single counter, two Michelin stars, and a tasting menu that reads like a daily field report from British producers.

Andrew Wong's two-Michelin-star pan-regional Chinese on Wilton Road, the first Chinese restaurant outside Asia to hold two stars.

Bruton Place Kyoto kaiseki, the discreet hidden door, the multi-course menu and the most considered Japanese dining in W1.

Paddington Street modern Greek, sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.

Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods, the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.

Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie, the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.

Sam and Sam Clark's tapas-bar sister to Moro, eight metres along the same row, the small-plate version of the same kitchen.

Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms, wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.

Pierre Gagnaire's three-Michelin-star Mayfair drawing room, the most theatrical fine-dining address in W1.

Three Michelin stars on Park Lane, Ducasse's London flagship since 2010, run by Jean-Philippe Blondet.

Adam Byatt's two-Michelin-star Clapham Old Town room, the most considered cooking south-west of the river.

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

Seymour Place's Basque pintxos counter, the txuleta and the txakoli on the same Marylebone bar