Plekken in London

A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room, Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen

The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre

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

Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door, Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024

A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches, chef Steve Williams

Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre