Places in London

Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

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

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

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

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