Plekken in London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Tom Sellers' two-Michelin-star tasting room — the chapter's South-Bank fine-dining anchor

Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki — the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement

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

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.

Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026

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.

Jonny Lake and Isa Bal's two-Michelin-star à la carte room — Fat Duck alumni at neighbourhood register

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.

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.

Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods — the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.

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

The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously

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

Northern Chinese on level 33 of The Shard — the view-room and the dish where guests in town for a single weekend take their out-of-town parents.

Endo Kazutoshi's rooftop Japanese inside Raffles at the OWO — the operating Endo room while Endo at the Rotunda rebuilds after the 2025 fire.

Nineteen seats around a single counter, two Michelin stars, and a tasting menu that reads like a daily field report from British producers.

Angela Hartnett's one-star Italian on Queen Street — the civilised Mayfair lunch the neighbourhood's regulars actually keep.

Kinnerton Street's claret-walled tasting room — Gordon Ramsay's Belgravia one-star since 2010

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.

Mount Street seafood and the city's most consequential lunch crowd — the Mayfair set-piece.

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

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.

River Café DNA, hotel-restaurant comfort — Tuscan cooking on Park Lane

Bruton Place Kyoto kaiseki — the discreet hidden door, the multi-course menu and the most considered Japanese dining in W1.

Since 1742 — Jermyn Street oysters, game in season, and a clubland Britain that has stopped existing almost everywhere else.