American Bar at The Savoy Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen American Bar at The Savoy Strand $$$$ The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
Josephine Marylebone Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Classic Lively Josephine Marylebone Marylebone $$$ Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site, the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit
The Anchor & Hope Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Convivial Lively The Anchor & Hope Waterloo $$ The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre
The Audley Public House Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant Artistic The Audley Public House Mayfair $$$ Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub, Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling
The Devonshire Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Lively Classic See & Be Seen The Devonshire Soho $$$ UK's No.1 gastropub 2026, the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it
The French House Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Classic Intimate Literary The French House Soho $$ Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s
The Harwood Arms Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant Intimate The Harwood Arms Fulham $$$ London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food
The Wolseley Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen The Wolseley Piccadilly $$$ Piccadilly's grand café, the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper
Dishoom Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Convivial Lively Dishoom Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast
Fortnum & Mason Shop Shop Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen Fortnum & Mason Piccadilly $$$$ Piccadilly's 1707 grocery, the food hall, the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon, the hampers everyone takes home
J Sheekey Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant See & Be Seen J Sheekey Covent Garden $$$ St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole
Maison Bertaux Cafe Cafe Compare Classic Intimate Literary Maison Bertaux Soho $$ Greek Street's 1871 patisserie, London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs
The Wallace Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Compare Elegant Chill Classic The Wallace Restaurant Marylebone $$$ The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection, Marylebone's quietest daytime room