Places in London

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

London's first authentic Antep baklavacı since 1993, Murat Üstünsürmeli's Grand Parade pastry house

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

The wine-magazine bar, Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015

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

Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door, Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024

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

Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı, kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard

The Yavuz family's Green Lanes flagship since 1999, the polished mainstream of London Turkish

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

Moxon Street's cheese reference since 1992, Patricia Michelson's affineur, walk-in tasting room

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

The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990, BYOB, walk-in only, untouched

The larger Greek Street sister, 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen

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

David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse, the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to

The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection, Marylebone's quietest daytime room