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

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

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

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

Seymour Place's Basque pintxos counter, the txuleta and the txakoli on the same Marylebone bar

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

Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in

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

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

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

World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half

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