Best Classic Places in London

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

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

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

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

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

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

A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs

The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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