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The Adam and Eve in Wells Street is a another fine West End example of a Geronimo gastropub, where the right atmosphere, fine food, decent wine and a general air of bonhomie are all par for the course. This small but highly effective and well run group of reformed pubs from the old order now has 28 under its fold, each encouraged to be highly individual, each focused accurately on its own particular area and clientele.

Lest the name should bother you in any way there is an alley at the back which has some outside tables and comes in handy for lovers looking only for each other's eyes and others requiring personal space. Located only a short hop from Oxford Street the Adam and Eve is a sanctuary for those seeking relief from the retail frenzy. Once inside punters appreciate the décor that is reminiscent of many a good home, not overbearing and calculated to sooth and please.

This is a one menu pub and I defy anyone not to find pleasure at enough points to enjoy a thoroughly wholesome, well-cooked and interesting meal. The daily soup is of course a changing feast and it comes with crusty bread. For those who just like their bread and butter ? period ? there's the Oxfordshire variety with Nether End Farm salted butter. Bloody Mary sauce accompanies some crisp whitebait, or try the Valley Farm smoked salmon warm potato cake.

If rush is the order of the day head for the Welsh rarebit, a symphony of toast and cheese, or savour the rare roast beef sandwich with onion chutney and creamed horseradish.

A little more time? Head for the chicken curry with naan bread and pilau rice, or a lamb casserole and herb dumplings. French fries and chips are around, but the best bet are the hand cut chips served with Cornish sea salt. Follow with treacle sponge and custard or some hot apple crumble.

A wine list selected by John Clevely, Master of Wine, does ample justice to the food and leads you through a friendly, well chosen bunch of bottles, few over £30, the great majority available by bottle, and large or smaller glass.

The Geronimo Club provides a sort of inner sanctuary for the regulars and anyone can join. There are definite benefits, to start with a drink on the house for just giving your details. Your birthday comes around and there's a present for you, and on the anniversary of you joining the club. Every month you get an email with an update on what's ongoing, perhaps a party invite or voucher, a few recipes or news of special offers coming up, all reminders that you belong and your company is valued.

Pubs have always come in many different varieties but groups like Geronimo who really work at the the job of getting people along, who listen to their customers and provide a setting where like-minded people can enjoy each other?s company in familiar surroundings are leading the way.

Whether or not you join The Geronimo Club keep tuned in to the Adam and Eve Website where good fellowship abounds.

Within the luxurious Lancaster London Hotel, Island Grill is a 2 AA Rosette awarded restaurant with award-winning cuisine ranging from British classics to more cosmopolitan choices. A chic and contemporary interior with a funky cocktail bar and dining room features a light-filled, split-level space with cool, clean lines and dark wood tables. Diners can relax on comfortable banquettes at Island Grill London while enjoying the modern British menu, as well as the spectacular views across the Italian Gardens of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens from the floor-to-ceiling windows. Lancaster Gate Tube Station is a stone's throw away.

Starters of rustic pork pate with pistachios, grape chutney and toast, pan fried Atlantic scallops with marinated artichoke and bacon salad or smoked halibut with saffron risotto served with mussel and herb butter sauce make for a good beginning to the meal at Island Grill Bayswater.

Follow with light mains of goat's cheese and smoked tomato tart with a light basil pesto, grilled prawn Caesar salad with ciabatta croutons or char grilled tuna Niçoise with a salad of French beans, cherry tomatoes, black olives, peppers, new potatoes and egg. If you prefer something more substantial, The Island Grill menu has classics such as steak and ale pie, beer battered cod with chips and roast Suffolk chicken with spatzle, wild mushroom, artichoke and chicken jus. Alternatively, try a fillet steak with your choice of sauce, the Island burger with cheese and bacon served with chips or side salad or calf's liver and bacon with sautéed spinach and garlic.

For a quick lunch, an express menu offers char grilled minute steak with chips and garlic butter, grilled pork chop with crushed new potatoes, caramelised apples and red wine jus or Devonshire crab cake with a fennel slaw and a red pepper tartare sauce.

For a hearty start to the day, Island Grill restaurant offers choices of full English and vegetarian breakfasts. There's also smoked salmon and poached egg on a toasted muffin with homemade hollandaise sauce or toasted soft bun with double sausage, bacon and a fried egg, French toast with fruit salad and maple syrup, or granola and Greek yoghurt with mixed berry compote. A selection of breakfast cocktails, tea and coffee completes the meal.

Puddings of coffee crème brûlée with pistachio biscotti, baked Alaska with passion fruit and a sumptuous, rich dark chocolate fondant with white chocolate mousse and chocolate sorbet will satisfy the sweet tooth.

At the Island Grill bar, enjoy a variety of excellent cocktails, draught beer and ales. A largely French wine list, with wines available by the glass and carafe, complements the food perfectly.

To gain further information, just visit their extremely comprehensive Website.

The Frontline Club was founded in 2003 to provide a base in London for frontline journalists, diplomatic service, aid agencies and those who otherwise tend to meet each other in the hotspots of our modern world. Some of the great names in the business have been, or more sombrely were formerly, members of the Club, which runs an excellent restaurant in Norfolk Place, only 5 minutes from Paddington Station.

Given that Paddington is not widely associated with notable cuisine, the arrival of Frontline is a big step forward, and the even better news is that you don't have to be a member of the club to use the restaurant, which offers a menu that is both thoughtful and tantalising.

Amongst Head Chef John Taylor's starters expect to find crispy pork with hot Tewkesbury mustard and watercress, rocket, pear and Doddington cheese salad with spiced crème fraîche and walnut dressing, or organic oak-smoked salmon with dill pickled cucumbers.

Frontline Classics include Old Bob's sausage, mash and caramelised onion gravy or shepherds pie with braised cabbage - all the sort of things I should think you tend to dream about when shot and shell are flying and you have your head well down. The full-blown main courses are pretty classical too - pollock with sweetcorn, bacon bits, minted pea puree and butter sauce, cannon of Welsh mountain lamb with confit belly or fillet of beef with steak ale mushroom pie and caramelized red onion jam.

Triple cooked chips are always available on the side. If you've left room finish off with a Queen Mab's pudding with raspberries and shortbread or treat yourself to the ever-reliable sticky toffee pudding.

To satisfy the likely expectations in wine of people so widely travelled in every sense, is no mean feat. The list is clearly not only compiled by somebody with clear views - it is too decisive to have been done by a committee - but is also relatively easy on the pocket. Wine author Malcolm Gluck has seized the opportunity to fulfil a long standing ambition to create a list that covers a, "range of delicious wines, many of them unusual and out-of-the-way, all affordable at non-rip-off prices," in a leading London restaurant.

So quite apart from being comfortably dined amidst surroundings that would do credit to a regimental mess, you also have the opportunity to meet some pretty interesting people as well. In 2005 Frontline won a prestigious Remy Award in Harden's Guide to London Restaurants. More recently Giles Coren of The Times enthused, "... the Frontline is a staggering find: big, grown-up, lots of wood, but light and jolly with just a hint of foreign battles."

However, you can check out further information about the place on their Website.

Belgo Centraal is totally unique in its design, especially its industrial lift, which transports guests over one of the busiest kitchens in London, where dishes from a menu of high quality are produced. Situated in the hub of Covent Garden, Belgo Centraal has been a hit since it opened in 1998 and a destination for tourists and Londoners alike ever since. Well known for its high quality Belgian food and drink, accompanied by unbeatable service and a stimulating environment, it has won a Best London Restaurant Award and was also runner up in the Best Family Restaurant Award 2000.

Affordable, filling meals include their famous mussel platter, served with frites, and other superb seafood, vegetarian or meat dishes, such as rotisserie chicken and haddock in Belgo Wit beer batter. If you have room you should try one of their scrummy desserts featuring Brussels style waffle with vanilla ice-cream, Chantilly cream and a choice of warm white or dark chocolate sauce.

The waiters, dressed as monks, are always willing to guide guests through the vast array of varying Belgian white, dark and fruit beers that are on offer to complement your meal. Belgian food tends to concentrate on leeks, asparagus, potatoes, beetroot, carrots, fennel; onion, celery, thyme, chives, rosemary, turnips, radish, beef, chicken, fish, butter and cream. From this by and large pretty healthy selection by most standards, they produce such classic Belgian dishes as waterzooi and carbonnade.

Do keep an eye out for their special deals, such as the famous 'Beat the Clock', where you pay the price at the time shown on your food order when ordering from their BTC menu, i.e., 6pm is £6. Express Lunch is a set lunch menu for £9.50, served with a choice of Cristal lager, a glass of house wine or a soft drink.

They also have 'Kids Eat Free', which entitles one child to eat free from the 'mini menu', a 2-course meal served with frites or mash, that includes such dishes as rotisserie chicken, pork or leek sausages, or cod goujons, rounded off with Belgo's homemade ice-cream, per one adult ordering a main course from the à la carte menu.

With two seating areas to choose from, firstly their dining area, where reservations can be made, or dine in the more relaxed beer hall area, with bench style seating,  where reservations are not required, this is definitely a unique dining experience. They can also cater for private parties from approximately 50 to 250 guests.

And talking of guests, read on: 'excellent evening! The waiters were very entertaining and so, so knowledgeable about all those different beers'.

'We had a fantastic time, great food and the kids really loved it! The waiter brought them to see the kitchen and gave them a chef's hat. All that and the kids ate for free'.

For information on reservations, parties and private hire, or just to learn more about Belgo Restaurants, visit their well designed Website.

Il Convivio literally translates as a gathering of dissident intellectual philosophers of the Dante era over food and drink or just to keep things simple let's call it a 'banquet'. Dubbed as one of the most exciting and ambitious projects of the Eturusca group, owners Enzo and Piero have had the confidence and passion, backed by twenty-five years of experience in the catering industry, to put together a welcome addition to Belgravia's restaurant scene.

As you step into the converted Georgian house with all its original charm intact, you might notice a few tables overlooking Ebury Street. The main restaurant's sky lit area has an airy and spacious feel while the conservatory at the back with an electric roof enables year round al fresco dining. Deep red walls embossed with words taken from Dante's poetry reminisce the Romantic era and the limestone and cedar wood panels add to the elegant atmosphere.

The regularly changing menu created by Lukas Pfaff includes antipasti such as terrine of octopus with tomato essence and radish and beef carpaccio with celery and basil infused virgin olive oil. The homemade black spaghetti with lobster and spring onions, alongside duck and pea ravioli with foie gras sauce is a main draw at Il Convivio's elegant tables.

Fish courses take in the Arctic black cod caramelized with aged balsamic, served with grilled asparagus and Muscat grapes and pan-fried fillet of halibut with a 'soft shell' crab sauce and black olive tapenade. From the meat section there is clay pot roasted 'black leg' chicken with an aged Marsala sauce and crispy pancetta served with olive oil infused mashed potato, and veal cutlet with a fine herb and caper butter,

Desserts are a treat to the chocoholics with chocolate trilogy and dark chocolate and pistachio pudding with a sour cherry sorbet. Those who prefer to keep it simple could try a selection of homemade sorbets or ice creams and coffee and petit fours.

Not surprising then, that since opening in September '99, they have proved popular with critics and locals alike. A click on their informative Website will introduce you to II Convivio at home.

On High Street, Prezzo Eltham offers fine Italian cuisine is a bright, spacious setting. Housed in a converted London electricity showroom building, the beautifully designed interior retains much of its original charm with a stunning first floor dining area, which features stained glass windows and wooden furniture.

Surrounded by shops and bars, Prezzo is just a short walk from Eltham Railway Station.

The restaurants satisfy the needs of those who like genuine Italian cuisine, as they use only the best seasonal products, many of which are imported directly from Italy. The menu includes pizza, pasta, risotto, grilled meats, fresh salads and frequently changing specials.

The freshly baked breads, like the garlic pizza bread with caramelised balsamic onions and melted mozzarella cheese, are perfect for sharing and give you adequate breathing space to order starters to follow. Crab cakes served with garlic mayonnaise or grilled goats' cheese with plum tomatoes and caramelised onions on focaccia bread with a balsamic glaze set the tone for a hearty meal.

Find pastas such as the unusual chicken ravioli, made pancetta bacon, petits pois and grana padano cheese in a cream sauce; amongst the special pastas, the polpette al forno with meatballs, field mushrooms, caramelised onions, red chillies and penne in a tomato and garlic sauce is interesting and different. Italian menus would be incomplete without risotto, like chicken and red pesto with roasted peppers and grana padano cheese, while tiger prawns with oak roast salmon and petits pois in a creamy saffron sauce, is enticingly different.

Classic pizzas embrace, among a wide selection, the popular fiorentina, topped with spinach, free-range egg, grana padano cheese, marinated olives, mozzarella and tomato, and the much loved quattro formaggi - gorgonzola, goat's cheese, grana padano, mozzarella, tomato.

Specials could include the pollo Siciliana, char-grilled chicken breast, prosciutto ham and plum tomato slices, baked with Prezzo's own blend of cheese, only one example from the many tempting offerings that come out from the Prezzo kitchens.

You can wash down the food with a variety of tipples - ranging from house wine and Chardonnay to liqueurs and beer and there is espresso or fresh ground coffee to wind up an enjoyable meal.

To gain further information, just visit their extremely comprehensive Website.

The much-loved Rib Room at Jumeirah Carlton Tower in London's Knightsbridge, originally launched in 1961, has always been a bastion of beef and all that is traditional in British dining. Situated on the Knightsbridge and Belgravia border within Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel, this restaurant is the perfect stop off point after a tough day of retail therapy at nearby Harrods and Harvey Nichols.

The glamorous dining room mixes sophistication with tradition, with remarkably personal service, providing a wonderful setting for lunch and dinner. It really is unabashed luxury with lots of room allowed for every table, no fear of being overheard when you are holding your power lunch there. Start off the day with one of the best English breakfasts London has to offer or step in for a relaxed meal at lunchtime or in the evening.

The Rib Room helps you pull off your private dining event faultlessly with their dedicated menus featuring baked Stilton pudding with a salad of poached pears, crispy walnuts and watercress; roast corn-fed chicken, boulangere of the leg, French beans in Alsace bacon, tarragon and mustard jus, and Valrhona chocolate mousse with a soft peanut centre and raspberry sorbet.

Head Chef, Ian Rudge's seasonal menu showcases the best of modern and traditional British cuisine including the world-renowned roast rib of beef; there is also an emphasis on fresh seafood and fish. Starters include caramelised scallops with slow cooked belly of pork, orange and ginger dressing and caramelised apple tart with pan fried foie gras port and balsamic caramel.

Typical dishes on the restaurant menu includes oak smoked Lch Fyne salmon, Buccleuch roast rib of Aberdeen Angus beef served with Yorkshire pudding and deluxe seafood platter, alongside other favourites such as the classic Rib Room Caesar salad with anchovies and bacon, roast Gressingham duck with spiced cherries and calves liver with sweet cured Suffolk bacon.

The drinks list includes a list of over 500 wines and champagnes expertly crafted by Head Sommelier Louise Gordon, presented to guests on an interactive iPad list, with recommendations to enhance the flavours of every dish or just for a relaxing glass of quality wine. There's also an exciting array of cocktails, premium gins and bespoke bitters, alongside light bites, ideal for a quick lunch or light dinner.

Numerous paintings by Feliks Topolski adorn the walls of The Rib Room, while an imposing carved bronze bull is positioned by the bar, and a triptych fossil sculpture by Renn Thacker Visual Artists in Partnership can be viewed as guests enter through the Sloane Street entrance.

For further information do have a look at their Website.

Belgo Clapham caters for both the diner and the drinker with this bar/restaurant concept from the company that brought us the three other Belgos, Noord, Centraal and Kingsway.

With a warm and welcoming atmosphere, you can enjoy a drink and snacks at the bar area or the outside seating area, and relax with an entertaining, people-watching view of the hustle and bustle of Clapham life going by right in front of your eyes. You might even see the traditional 'man on the omnibus'.

Situated on Clapham High Street, Belgo Clapham incorporates striking and individual interior design with leather banquette seating, intimate booths and oak furniture to create a stylish and comfortable bar atmosphere.

Waiters are on hand if needed to help you choose the right beers, making suggestions from the various white, black and fruit beers available, as well as a large selection of wines and other drinks. Drawn from one of the largest suppliers of Belgian beers in this country you can see why when you view the menu, so take your time to look through your drinks menu and don't hesitate to ask the bartender or a waiter for their suggestions and help.

In the kitchens the chefs are at work preparing dishes, such as their famous mussels, and other range of superb seafood, vegetarian or meat dishes. Starters of king prawns pan fried in garlic, chilli, ginger and herb butter or salmon fishcakes served with baby spinach and lime hollandaise make excellent beginnings, leading on to main courses of char grilled 10oz rib eye steak with frites, caramelised onions and garlic butter or peppercorn sauce. Other tasty options include their famed rotisserie chicken, spit roasted chicken basted in Belgian blonde beer and apple juice served with wild mushroom and cream.

There's a great choice for those with a sweet tooth with their amazing desserts featuring Belgian dark chocolate cheesecake on a baked biscuit base with dark chocolate sauce, homemade strawberry pavlova, crème brûlée with a tuile biscuit, and of course the renowned bread and butter pudding with brioche, orange confit, dark Belgian chocolate and Mandarin Napoleon liqueur.

The mussel platter comes to table accompanied by crisp golden frites, while moules blanches cooked in Belgo Wit beer arrives with shallots, smoked bacon and parsley with frites.

Do keep an eye out for their special deals, such as the famous 'Beat the Clock', where you pay the price at the time shown on your food order when ordering from their BTC menu, i.e., 6pm is £6. The 'Express Lunch' is a set lunch menu where you can choose between a bowl of marinière mussels served with frites, grilled goats' cheese salad, pork and leek sausages, or salmon fillet, leek mash and mustard sauce.

They also have 'Kids Eat Free', which entitles 1 child to eat free from the 'mini menu', a 2-course meal served with frites or mash, that includes dishes such as rotisserie chicken, pork and leek sausages, mussels or cod goujons, rounded off with Belgo's homemade ice-cream, per 1 adult ordering a main course from the à la carte menu.

For reservations and party bookings call them from 12 noon onwards, or visit their Website to learn more about Belgo Restaurants.

Having served classic Italian trattoria fare for over 40 years, Taberna Etrusca in the heart of the City, continues to roll out old favourites to its loyal customers. With its unusual location, in the courtyard of St. Mary-Le-Bow church and its welcoming interiors of textured white walls, tiled floors and an open-beamed ceiling, Taberna Etrusca is a haven from the bustle of the city and in fine weather customers can take the opportunity to eat al fresco in the sunny courtyard to the rear of the restaurant. A short walk from Bank and Mansion House Tube Stations, the restaurant is also close to famous London landmarks such as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Barbican Centre and the Guildhall.

The seasonally changing à la carte menu is supplemented by daily specials, and offers starters of poached asparagus with sage butter and Grana Padano, fresh crab and avocado salad with a tomato coulis or finely sliced Parma ham with honeydew melon to begin the meal on an appetizing note. A mixed platter for sharing offers Parma ham, bresaola, salami, sun-dried tomatoes, olives and pickles.

Then continue with main course fare such as tagliatelle in a creamy smoked salmon, asparagus and dill sauce, spaghetti tossed with Scottish beef fillet slices sautéed in garlic, chilli and fresh tomatoes or penne with fresh vine tomatoes, grilled vegetables and goat's cheese.

Meat lovers will relish traditional dishes such as grilled calf's liver and bacon, served with a spring onion potato pureé and red wine reduction, chargrilled 28-day matured Scotch rib-eye, with crisp onions and grilled plum tomato or pan-fried pork fillet medallions topped with Parma ham and taleggio cheese, served with sautéed spinach.

If you prefer fish or seafood, there's choice of spicy tiger prawns with tomato, garlic and chilli served on a bed of rice, grilled scallops with lime, smoked pancetta and rocket and roasted fillet of sea bass with mixed wild mushrooms and oven baked diced potato. Set menus for lunch and dinner are also available.

BBQ set menus offer dishes such as succulent pork ribs with a caramelised BBQ sauce, 28-day matured Scotch beef sirloin steak or prime Cumberland sausages served in a roll with caramelised onion along with potato salad with chopped chives and pine nuts, plum tomato with buffalo mozzarella and basil salad with an extra virgin olive oil dressing or Russian salad and a selection of desserts and fruit.

Bring the meal to a fitting conclusion with tempting desserts of traditional tiramisu with Savoiardi biscuits dipped in espresso coffee and layered with mascarpone, baked lime cheesecake with a rum cream or warm chocolate fondant with coconut ice cream. There's also an assortment of soft and hard Italian cheeses served with biscuits and honey.

A predominantly Italian wine list features an extensive selection from all over the country, including a noteworthy selection of grappa, and a sprinkling of examples from the rest of Europe and the New World.

A well-appointed private dining room is available for up to 40 guests, with set, buffet, canapé and bespoke menus, is perfect for a special occasion or corporate event.

To gain further information, just visit their extremely comprehensive Website.

In Chelsea, tucked away between the Fulham Road and the Kings Road is an attractive Georgian building known as The Builders Arms. Thanks to a successful makeover, what was once a dreary old pub has now been converted into a first class gastropub, so much so that it won The Evening Standard pub of the year in 1999.

Actually located in Britten Street between Sydney Street and Chelsea Green, it is a large three storey Georgian pub of traditional character and features a spacious interior with attractive artwork, comfy leather sofas, banquettes and brightly coloured bookshelves that lend a relaxed and informal feel to the place. Linger by the fireside on a warm winter's day and sample some of the best drinks and food, all created from local produce whenever possible.

The food is made up of a daily changing all day menu, but you can expect to find dishes such as beer battered fishcakes, a pint of prawns with mayonnaise and watercress; steak sandwiches with wilted spinach, onion rings and tomato jam; fish pies; sausage and mash, roast salmon, succulent steaks and Builders Benedict that takes in English muffins, ham, spinach, poached eggs and hollandaise. Don't forget to request one of the Builders staff to give you information about the day's specials.

To gain further information, just visit their extremely comprehensive Website .