Places in London

Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road

Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window

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

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

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

Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast

Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods, the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.

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

Great Titchfield Street's all-day brasserie, the Fitzrovia office and the Sunday brunch in one room

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