Bistro in London

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

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

Piccadilly's grand café, the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper

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

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

Great Titchfield Street's all-day brasserie, the Fitzrovia office and the Sunday brunch in one room

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

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