Venues similar to Sager + Wilde

Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s

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

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

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window

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

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

Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011, José Pizarro's pintxos counter

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

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.

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

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

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