This intimate old-school Japanese spot (a 15-minute stroll from the Japanese embassy) has been serving sparkling sushi on traditional wooden blocks alongside crisp tempura and filling soba noodles since the 1970s. Consistently good in a neighbourhood where the food scene is hit and miss.

The original South Molton Street boutique helped launch John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. Now, despite its stately location in a Grade-II listed townhouse, the Browns flagship is a four-floored shopping experience that verges on futuristic. Visitors can virtually step through the doors with the Browns app to see which of their wishlist items are on the rails and the upstairs dressing rooms have interactive mirrors that make styling suggestions. A chic, experiential edit.

With its Art Deco chequered floor, resident pianist and cucumber finger sandwiches at tea, Claridge’s is about as classic as it gets. Yet it also has an eye on what’s cool: in the gargantuan subterranean spa with its own Josh Wood hair salon, for example. And in the John Pawson-designed ArtSpace Café, with its gallery-like patisserie counter and access to an actual gallery of rotating free-to- enter exhibitions from artists such as Damien Hirst and Mary McCartney. Hard to beat for its all-out excess.

Set within a five-storey Georgian townhouse, stepping into Offer Waterman feels uncannily like walking into your quintessential London dream house. A beautiful space paired with an astonishing collection of artworks, the temporary exhibitions on show are just exquisite. Catch the works of David Hockney, William Turnbull, and curations by the likes of Jonathan Anderson.