Thirty years after it opened, there’s still nowhere else in London quite like the River Café, Ruth Roger’s iconic Thames-side restaurant. It’s deeply glamorous but also charmingly informal ...

You open with a captive market, as in the case of co-owners Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, launching The River Cafe partly as a canteen for Ruth’s husband Richard’s architecture practice.

OpenTable has named the UK’s most romantic restaurants ahead of Valentine's Day – and six of them are in south east London.