Sinead Cranna

1 week ago | theinfatuation.com | Heidi Lauth Beasley |Sinead Cranna |Daisy Meager

Most expensive cocktail: £18The Standard, London in King’s Cross has taken a page out of Studio 54’s playbook with their late-night lounge. The disco ball could be mistaken for a planet, there’s plenty of orange crushed velvet sofas to pose on, and a sea of sequin jumpsuits to match the glittering skyline views. The house cocktails aren’t ashamed to be a bit silly, or very sweet and blue, and it’s ideal boogie territory once the DJ hits the decks. Quiet catch-ups need not apply.

1 week ago | theinfatuation.com | Rianne Shlebak |Sinead Cranna |Heidi Lauth Beasley |Jake Missing

At its core, The Ritz Restaurant is a theatre kid who went to finishing school. There’s the ensemble cast of servers in morning coats, the ties-required, glitzy costumes of the diners, and tableside drama of the flame-throwing persuasion. A ‘Versailles, eat your heart out’ Mayfair dining room serves as the set and everything—the voluptuous, pearl white langoustine on your plate, the light tinkling of piano keys, the blushing blue skyscape hand-painted ceiling—is aggressively beautiful.

2 weeks ago | theinfatuation.com | Jake Missing |Sinead Cranna |Rianne Shlebak |Heidi Lauth Beasley

The best seat in the house: A restaurateur as accomplished as Jeremy King makes every seat a good one. We like to be against a wall, maybe under a photo of Warhol. What you’re seeing: The glory days. When every lunch in St. James’s turned into dinner and a martini was welcome any time of the day. You’ll get plenty of old Le Caprice heads here. Furs, Ferraris, Louboutin, and a handful of divorces to season the schnitzel. The best seat in the house:  The two-top in front of the mirror.

2 weeks ago | theinfatuation.com | Rianne Shlebak |Jake Missing |Heidi Lauth Beasley |Sinead Cranna

Just AddedYou’ll get a pleasant whiff of minced meat and onions before you even enter Bayt Sajj. As soon as you do though, you’ll notice the big round sajj ovens topped with thin, crispy-edged flatbreads. It’s an office-worker's dream lunch spot with hand-held Lebanese wraps for under a tenner, or an ideal stop-off during a day of shopping in central thanks to the excellent labneh wraps that are perfect for a quick snack on one of their tables out front.

4 weeks ago | theinfatuation.com | Heidi Lauth Beasley |Jake Missing |Rianne Shlebak |Sinead Cranna

Crisp Pizza W6 paved the way for London’s New York-style pizza coup. Thanks to the gravity-defying slices served from Hammersmith pub The Chancellors, queues formed and W6 became home to London’s best pizza. The huge pies, covered in a rich tomato sauce, the perfect distribution of melted mozzarella, and a generous sprinkling of parmesan, are worth the WhatsApping, texting, or—every Brit’s worst nightmare—ringing to reserve the dough. You don’t reserve a table at Crisp Pizza—you pre-order dough.