Places in London

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

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

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

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

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