Best Historic Places in London

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

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

A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room, Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen

London's oldest market, 4.5 acres of producer-fronted stalls under the Southwark railway arches

Britain's oldest Indian restaurant, open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.

London's oldest restaurant, Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.

Bloomsbury French, the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse.

Fergus Henderson's nose-to-tail manifesto since 1994, the white-walled Smithfield room that wrote modern British cooking.

Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house, Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.

Britain's oldest wine merchant, 3 St James's Street since 1698, Royal Warrants and a working cellar tour

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