Classic in London

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

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

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

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

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

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

The organic Cotswold farm's Westbourne Grove farmshop and café, the audience's Saturday morning anchor

Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast

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

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

Langton Street's Tuscan trattoria since 1975, Chelsea's Italian family room, fourth decade

Greek Street's 1871 patisserie, London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre

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