Lugares in London

Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road

Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026

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

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

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

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

Frith Street's 1959 jazz room, the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps

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

UK's No.1 gastropub 2026, the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food

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

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican, generous, regional, unfussy

Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team, clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.

Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope

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

St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole

Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in

The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to

Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression, Spitalfields

Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual, sushi without the omakase ceremony

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

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