Plekken in London

Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian — the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.

Anne-Sophie Pic's two-Michelin-star Four Seasons dining room — the Valence three-star register, in the City.

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

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

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

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship — whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking

Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship — modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School — cooking is the only headline

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.

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window

Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room — the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred room — Charlotte Street since 1991, in its 35th anniversary year

Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001

Tom Sellers' two-Michelin-star tasting room — the chapter's South-Bank fine-dining anchor

Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki — the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement

Frith Street's 1959 jazz room — the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps

Agostino Perrone's silver-trolley martini and a room that has spent a decade at or near the top of the World's 50 Best Bars list.

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

Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian — one Michelin star held since 2012

Jonny Lake and Isa Bal's two-Michelin-star à la carte room — Fat Duck alumni at neighbourhood register

Rafael Cagali's two-Michelin-star tasting room inside the Town Hall Hotel — Bethnal Green's destination kitchen.

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

The Berkeley's pastry counter — Grolet's first London room, the trompe-l'œil fruits the audience has only seen on Instagram

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

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

The Yavuz family's Green Lanes flagship since 1999 — the polished mainstream of London Turkish

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.

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

Endo Kazutoshi's rooftop Japanese inside Raffles at the OWO — the operating Endo room while Endo at the Rotunda rebuilds after the 2025 fire.

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

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

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

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

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