Venues similar to The French House

Frith Street's 1959 jazz room, the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011, José Pizarro's pintxos counter

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

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

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

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre

A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs

The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu

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

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

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