Plekken in London

Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026

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

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

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

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

Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in

Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011, José Pizarro's pintxos counter

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

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

Great Titchfield Street's all-day brasserie, the Fitzrovia office and the Sunday brunch in one room

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

A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs

The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu