Places in London

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

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

Davies Street's fine-wine and rare-spirits cathedral, Coravin tasting bar at the back

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

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