Dean Street Townhouse

Dean Street Townhouse at 69-71 Dean Street in Soho W1 is both a boutique hotel and a celebrated all-day British brasserie that has been a Soho institution since opening in 2009. The restaurant serves British classics: devilled kidneys on toast for breakfast, potted shrimps, smoked salmon, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, steamed puddings with custard — a menu that reads like an anthology of the British table at its most reassuring. Hardens has praised it consistently as a "reliable Soho brasserie with excellent British cooking." The dining room, with its brown leather banquettes and warm lighting, has a slightly retro glamour that suits its Dean Street location — the street where Francis Bacon drank, Karl Marx lived and Gian Carlo Menotti premiered his opera The Consul. The hotel rooms are among Soho's most characterful.

Available for dine-in at 69-71 Dean Street, Soho W1D. Phone 020 7434 1775. Open daily from 7am to midnight. Own website: deanstreettownhouse.com.