Veeraswamy
Mayfair
Britain's oldest Indian restaurant, open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.
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Mayfair
Britain's oldest Indian restaurant, open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.
Clerkenwell
Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room, the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.
Clerkenwell
Fergus Henderson's nose-to-tail manifesto since 1994, the white-walled Smithfield room that wrote modern British cooking.
Covent Garden
St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole
Fulham
London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury French, the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse.
Farringdon
Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house, Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.
Covent Garden
Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie, the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.
Soho
Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026
Mayfair
Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub, Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling
Piccadilly
Piccadilly's grand café, the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper
Belgravia
Lowndes Street's Italian institution since 1995, the Belgravia trattoria that taught London regional pasta
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