Venues similar to Ronnie Scott's

Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s

Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope

Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010

Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below

World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half

Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road

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

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

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

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window

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

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

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

Shoreditch's whisky reference, 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table

Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026

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

Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub, Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling

The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre

Agostino Perrone's silver-trolley martini and a room that has spent a decade at or near the top of the World's 50 Best Bars list.

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