Plekken in London

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

James Lowe's one-Michelin-star Shoreditch room — the founding text of the East London modern-British school.

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

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

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

JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street — Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub — Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling

The Maybourne sister to Connaught and Claridge's — Wilton Place, a rooftop pool over Hyde Park, and a 2024 redesign that finally looks contemporary.

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.

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

The billion-pound 2023 opening at Hyde Park Corner — Brooklands by Claude Bosi on the roof, and the most architecturally serious new hotel in W1 in decades.

Piccadilly's grand café — the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper

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