Venues similar to The Orange

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

Carole Bamford's Pimlico Road farmshop and café, the smaller, calmer SW1 sister to the Notting Hill flagship.

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

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

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

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

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

Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team, clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen