Wright brothers SOUTH KENSINGTON

You're walking down Old Brompton Road in South Ken when the smell of the sea hits you—that's your cue. Wright Brothers does oysters properly: they've got about six varieties on any given day, sourced from British waters, and the shuckers behind the counter move with the precision of surgeons. It's not pretentious, though. Order a dozen mixed, get some brown bread, maybe a glass of something crisp, and watch the theatre of it all. The rest of the menu leans into seafood done right—crab, lobster, fish that tastes like it arrived this morning, because it basically did.