Classic in London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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