Given that good food and railway stations go hand in hand in Japan, Miyako Restaurant tucked into a small space next to London’s Liverpool Street station, would be right at home in its country of origin.

The small nondescript black door squeezed between two tailor shops in Jermyn Street was hardly the introduction I was expecting to the legendary Wellington Club Restaurant , a membership institution since 1832.

Anthea Gerrie reviews Church Road Restaurant in leafy Barnes

It doesn’t happen very often that restaurants exceed expectations, but Chef Ruth Hansom’s cooking does exactly that at Pomona’s Restaurant.

November marks the anniversary of the death of Antonio Carluccio, the legendary Italian chef who made Britons take mushrooms seriously at Carluccio’s.

North-west London’s Finchley Road has never quite made its mind up. On one hand, it’s a sprawling main road of coffee bars, apartment buildings, launderettes and offices and on the other, it flirts with the well-heeled of Hampstead and Swiss Cottage.

Anthea Gerrie reviews Tredwells in trendy Covent Garden.

Anthea Gerrie reviews Studio Olafur Eliasson Kitchen at Tate Modern

Andy Mossack tucks into Indian street food at Little Kolkata in Covent Garden.

Wiltons Restaurant has made eight moves since starting as a shellfish-mongers in 1742 in London’s Haymarket – a plenty swanky address in recent centuries, but back then, just that – a market selling hay.