Plekken in London

Three Michelin stars on Park Lane — Ducasse's London flagship since 2010, run by Jean-Philippe Blondet.

Anne-Sophie Pic's two-Michelin-star Four Seasons dining room — the Valence three-star register, in the City.

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

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

Three Michelin stars in the panelled drawing room of Mayfair's most discreet hotel — the defining London fine-dining address.

The Berkeley's flagship dining room — Marcus Wareing's Belgravia anchor since 2014

Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room — the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.

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

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

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.

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