Greig's

Quietly nestled on a mews between Berkeley Square and Bond Street, Greig's has a reputation as London's best steak restaurant. Founded by Alistair Greig in 1959, its philosophy remains: the best ingredients cooked simply. Recent popular additions to the menu include such great British staples as shepherd's pie and roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Sure, they may cost three times as much than at your local café, but you're paying for the finest here. Floor to ceiling oak-panelling, thick white linen, £1000 Rothschild wines, this is typical Mayfair, naturally attracting well-off 40-something Americans with a weakness for family-butcher Scotch steaks. Sat

slicing into your steak, should you wonder how many wine bottles that line the restaurant walls, the answer is around 3,000 - most of them French, all seriously good. We leave you with another plus point: not a table-turning place, book a table at Greig's and you've bought it for the night. How civilised.