Classic in London

The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads

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

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

Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s

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

Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026

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

Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast

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

Greek Street's 1871 patisserie, London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs

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

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