The David Collins-designed interior of this 294-room landmark still impresses, but it is the Corinthia’s subterranean Espa spa that delivers the real wow factor. Read more
Whitehall Place, SW1A 2BD
One of London’s longest-running and most influential contemporary art galleries. Read more
67 Lisson Street, NW1 5DA
Oxford Street’s cathedral to hyper-indulgence is a multi storey, multi sensorial experience of fashion, food, furniture, tech, luggage, beauty and jewellery. Read more
400 Oxford St, W1A 1AB
The Mayfair sister restaurant to Casa Cruz in Notting Hill, popular with the art and auction crowd. Read more
26 Albemarle Street, W1S 4HY
A three-floor bookstore packed with art and design tomes served up with epicurean food and elegant cocktails. Read more
196a Piccadilly, W1J 9EY
Award-winning hotel bar featuring a rich, wood-panelled Cubist-inspired interior by David Collins Studio, overseen by master mixologist Agostino Perrone. Read more
Carlos Place, W1K 2AL
Run by Valerio Capo and Sam Pratt, this gallery focuses on high-level, conceptually and aesthetically audacious contemporary designers and artists. Read more
2 Hay Hill, W1J 6AS
Andre Balazs’s converted Marylebone fire station with a Nuno Mendes-helmed restaurant and alfresco garden bar is still smoking hot. Read more
1 Chiltern street, W1U 7PA
The Gallery restaurant at Mourad Mazouz’s Mayfair gastrodrome Sketch doubles as an art space, it currently features the darkly comic, absurdist drawings of David Shrigley. Read more
9 Conduit Street, W1S 2XG
Two-storey mega gallery exhibiting the best of British talent including Mat Collishaw, Lynn Chadwick, Lucian Freud and Damien Hirst. Read more
4 Hanover Square, W1S 1BP
The London branch of Rei Kawakubo and Adrian Joffe’s multi-brand fashion megastore. Read more
18-22 Haymarket, SW1Y 4DG
Designed as ’fit for meditation’ by Robert Weir Shultz in 1889, this garden features a ‘Hylas and the Nymph’ statue by Henry Pegram at its centre. Read more
Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, NW1 4NY
Pharmacy 2 is a collaboration between Damien Hirst and British chef and restaurateur Mark Hix, it‘s located at the artist’s Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall. Read more
2 Newport Street, SE11 6AJ
Chef and founder Mitsuhiro Araki’s Michelin-starred edomae sushi restaurant in London accommodates just nine diners. Read more
12 New Burlington Street, W1S 3BF
The hotel debut from London restaurateurs Chris Corbin and Jeremy King (Le Caprice, The Ivy, The Wolseley) may be located on a quiet Mayfair side street, but it roars with 1920s glamour. Read more
8 Balderton St, Brown Hart Gardens, W1K 6TF
This two-storey boutique housed in a former print factory in Shoreditch is sibling to the fashionista destination on South Molton Street Read more
21 Club Row, E2
Sir Terence Conran’s emporium offers three floors of contemporary furniture, design gifts, vintage pieces, homewares, books and tech. Read more
55 Marylebone High Street, W1U 5HS
London’s buzzing new neighbourhood offers retail, drinking, dining and entertainment. Recent additions include Tom Dixon’s Coal Office HQ and Coal Drop’s Yard shopping destination. Read more
Granary Square, N1C 4BH
Providing Londoners with old-school glamour and immaculately-considered loveliness since 1856, this hotel has several decadent bars, plus Fera restaurant. Read more
Brook Street, W1K 4HR
Currently celebrating its 250th anniversary, the RA has been making, debating and showing art since 1768. Read more
Piccadilly W1J 0BD
Pioneering gallery that has been at the vanguard of the art-design market for over 30 years. Read more
2-4 King Street, SW1Y 6QP