Classic in London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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