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

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.

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

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

Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room, the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.

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

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

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

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

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food

Bloomsbury French, the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse.

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

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

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

Since 1742, Jermyn Street oysters, game in season, and a clubland Britain that has stopped existing almost everywhere else.

Mount Street seafood and the city's most consequential lunch crowd, the Mayfair set-piece.

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

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

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

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