Plekken in London

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

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

Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road

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

Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho

London's first authentic Antep baklavacı since 1993, Murat Üstünsürmeli's Grand Parade pastry house

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

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

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

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

British ingredients, Mexican grammar, Santiago Lastra's Marylebone manifesto

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road, house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch

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

The wine-magazine bar, Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015

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

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

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

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

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

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.

P. Franco's successor at 107 Lower Clapton, a 25-cover wine shop with a hot plate at the back, chef residencies kept

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

Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie, the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.

Erchen Chang and the Chung siblings' original Lexington Street bun counter, Bib Gourmand Taiwanese, queue-only on the corner

Frith Street since 1949, the espresso bar Soho is built around

Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated, the Spanish bar London learned the format from

Shoreditch's whisky reference, 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican, generous, regional, unfussy

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

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

Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope

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

Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı, kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard

Seymour Place's Basque pintxos counter, the txuleta and the txakoli on the same Marylebone bar

Coal Drops Yard sit-down taqueria, al pastor on a vertical spit, the rebranded Casa Pastor

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

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

The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously

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

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

Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter, Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument

Moxon Street's cheese reference since 1992, Patricia Michelson's affineur, walk-in tasting room

Pistachio-green Soho deli since 1944, pasta as Italian commute

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

The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990, BYOB, walk-in only, untouched

The larger Greek Street sister, 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen

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

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

The fresh-pasta queue London actually accepts, Shoreditch sister of the Borough original

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

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

Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wildeve's Hackney Road wine bar, the East London natural-wine reference since 2013

The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to

David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse, the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to

Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression, Spitalfields

Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual, sushi without the omakase ceremony

Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below

World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half

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