Em Sherif

Northern Chinese on level 33 of The Shard, the view-room and the dish where guests in town for a single weekend take their out-of-town parents.

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

London's oldest restaurant, Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.

Three Michelin stars in the panelled drawing room of Mayfair's most discreet hotel, the defining London fine-dining address.

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

Britain's oldest Indian restaurant, open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.