Historic Venues — London
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Beigel Bake
A legendary East End bakery on Brick Lane, open around the clock since the 1970s and famous for hand-boiled-and-baked beigels, above all the salt beef beigel with mustard and pickle.
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F. Cooke
A century-old East End pie and mash shop on Hoxton Street, its green-tiled walls and marble-topped tables barely changed since minced beef pies and liquor were working-class London's everyday lunch.
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Gordon's Wine Bar
A candlelit vaulted cellar near Embankment open since 1890, widely held to be London's oldest wine bar, pouring an enormous list of sherries and wines beside cheese and charcuterie boards.
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Rules
London's oldest restaurant, opened in Covent Garden in 1798 as an oyster bar and still serving classic British and game cookery beneath red-plush Edwardian ceilings.
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Simpson's in the Strand
One of London's oldest restaurants, opened in 1828 out of a chess club and coffee house, famous for its tableside trolleys carving the "Great Joints" of traditional roast beef.
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Sweetings
A no-reservations Victorian seafood restaurant open for weekday lunch only in the City of London since 1889, famed for Dover sole, potted shrimp and tankards of Guinness at marble counters.
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The George Inn
London's last remaining galleried coaching inn, rebuilt in 1677 near Southwark's Borough High Street, now owned by the National Trust and mentioned by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit.
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The Ritz London (Afternoon Tea)
The gilded Palm Court of César Ritz's 1906 Piccadilly hotel, serving one of London's most celebrated afternoon teas beneath Louis XVI-style ceilings, with tables booked out months ahead.
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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
One of the City of London's oldest pubs, rebuilt in 1667 after the Great Fire, a warren of dark, wood-panelled rooms and cellars off Fleet Street long associated with Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens.