Στέκια in London

The Maybourne sister to Connaught and Claridge's, Wilton Place, a rooftop pool over Hyde Park, and a 2024 redesign that finally looks contemporary.

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.

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

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

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.

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 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.

Corbin and King's 1920s-styled Mayfair townhouse, a 73-room Art Deco hotel with an Antony Gormley sculpture you can sleep inside.

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.

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

Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie, the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.

Frith Street since 1949, the espresso bar Soho is built around

Shoreditch's whisky reference, 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table

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.

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

Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı, kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard

Coal Drops Yard sit-down taqueria, al pastor on a vertical spit, the rebranded Casa Pastor

The Yavuz family's Green Lanes flagship since 1999, the polished mainstream of London Turkish

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

The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990, BYOB, walk-in only, untouched

Paddington Street modern Greek, sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.

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

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

The Mayfair townhouse hotel, three Michelin stars in the dining room, the world's best bar downstairs, and the address that defines W1.

Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms, wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.