Venues similar to Gymkhana

Northern Chinese on level 33 of The Shard, the view-room and the dish where guests in town for a single weekend take their out-of-town parents.

Three Michelin stars in the panelled drawing room of Mayfair's most discreet hotel, the defining London fine-dining address.

Pierre Gagnaire's three-Michelin-star Mayfair drawing room, the most theatrical fine-dining address in W1.

Andrew Wong's two-Michelin-star pan-regional Chinese on Wilton Road, the first Chinese restaurant outside Asia to hold two stars.

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

London's oldest restaurant, Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.

Three Michelin stars on Park Lane, Ducasse's London flagship since 2010, run by Jean-Philippe Blondet.

Since 1742, Jermyn Street oysters, game in season, and a clubland Britain that has stopped existing almost everywhere else.

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

Adam Byatt's two-Michelin-star Clapham Old Town room, the most considered cooking south-west of the river.

Nineteen seats around a single counter, two Michelin stars, and a tasting menu that reads like a daily field report from British producers.

Mount Street seafood and the city's most consequential lunch crowd, the Mayfair set-piece.

Endo Kazutoshi's rooftop Japanese inside Raffles at the OWO, the operating Endo room while Endo at the Rotunda rebuilds after the 2025 fire.

Bruton Place Kyoto kaiseki, the discreet hidden door, the multi-course menu and the most considered Japanese dining in W1.

Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room, the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.

Angela Hartnett's one-star Italian on Queen Street, the civilised Mayfair lunch the neighbourhood's regulars actually keep.

Rafael Cagali's two-Michelin-star tasting room inside the Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green's destination kitchen.

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred room, Charlotte Street since 1991, in its 35th anniversary year

Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship, modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling

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