71-73 Palace Gardens Terrace, Notting Hill London
Among the kitchen pyrotechnics at this Notting Hill "local": a bone loaded with marrow juts from a golden mantle of suet crust hiding a melting stew of beef braised in ale.
160 Piccadilly London
This opulent evocation of Vienna's fin-de-siècle cafés spells out modern London so completely. Ponder this as you tuck into the smoked haddock cake crowned with a poached egg.
20 Mount Street London
Everyone—politicos, actors, swank young Iranians on dates with Moscow gazelles—is munching these fancy fish fingers at the seafood citadel in Mayfair.
35-37 Greenhill's Rents London
Mark Hix's original spot flaunts everything we love about Modern British dining. The bacon-wrapped hake's cheeks on a shocking-green fava purée, for instance, is a witty surf and turf.
Whitehall Place London, UK
The lemony spaghetti laced with spinach and langoustines, composed by Massimo Riccioli from La Rosetta, in Rome, sings a familiar tune but with perfect pitch.
33 Albemarle Street London
In the polished, suave English Tea Room here, we sipped a bracing Assam while wondering if Stella McCartney (a fan) loves these tarts as much as we do.