The elevated Chinese menu at this family-run restaurant is secret and ever-changing – diners will be asked on arrival for their spice preference but the rest is left to the chefs. Don’t expect kung pao chicken and spring rolls here. More often than not there are light tempura green beans doused in chilli and garlic (nicknamed “chips” by founder Mr Peng, they’re so addictive), or twice-cooked red pork delivered in a paper bag to be ripped open at the table. An insider tasting menu that delivers in spades.

Husband-and-wife design duo Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon used their home as a studio, until one morning they were woken by a Norwegian couple who had travelled straight from the airport wanting to buy practically everything in the house. These days they have a showroom on Ebury Street, and there’s a simple elegance to everything in it thanks to the couple’s fierce dedication to craft and refinement. The quiet luxury of the furniture world.

Interior designer, antiques dealer and furniture designer Rose Uniacke does a lot. She’s also a trained furniture restorer, gilder and paint lacquer specialist. Her designs (a green-tiled coffee table or hand- turned three-legged oak chair, perhaps) share the purist bones of her antique finds (a rare Venetian glass mirror, Georgian knee-hole desks) – all combining a beautiful play of light and texture.