Venues similar to St JOHN

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

Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house, Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.

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.

Bloomsbury French, the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse.

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

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

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

JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street, Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves.

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

Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team, clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.

Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie, the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.