Plekken in London

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

London's oldest market — 4.5 acres of producer-fronted stalls under the Southwark railway arches

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School — cooking is the only headline

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

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

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

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

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

Britain's oldest wine merchant — 3 St James's Street since 1698, Royal Warrants and a working cellar tour

London's oldest luxury hotel — 13 connected Georgian townhouses on Albemarle Street, a Michelin-starred Charlie's by Adam Byatt, and Rocco Forte stewardship.

The Berkeley's pastry counter — Grolet's first London room, the trompe-l'œil fruits the audience has only seen on Instagram

The Brook Street Art Deco grande dame — afternoon tea in the Foyer, a Foyer Bar by Bryan O'Sullivan, and the most famous lobby in London.

Carole Bamford's Pimlico Road farmshop and café — the smaller, calmer SW1 sister to the Notting Hill flagship.

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

Piccadilly's 1707 grocery — the food hall, the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon, the hampers everyone takes home

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

Davies Street's fine-wine and rare-spirits cathedral — Coravin tasting bar at the back

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 2023 conversion of the Old War Office on Whitehall — Mauro Colagreco's Michelin-starred Saison, a Guerlain spa, and the most ambitious new opening in the city.

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

Seven seats, one chef, Edomae discipline — London's hardest reservation

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

Corbin and King's 1920s-styled Mayfair townhouse — a 73-room Art Deco hotel with an Antony Gormley sculpture you can sleep inside.

The Mayfair townhouse hotel — three Michelin stars in the dining room, the world's best bar downstairs, and the address that defines W1.

The only hotel ever granted a royal warrant — fourth-generation family-owned in Belgravia, and the address that hosted Catherine Middleton the night before the wedding.

The Oetker Collection mansion at Hyde Park Corner — Regency interiors, a personal butler in every room, and Céleste under the cupola.

Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms — wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.

The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection — Marylebone's quietest daytime room