This pleasant little grill and seafood bar runs at Portobello Road Market every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Which, to all intents and purposes, means: breakfast oysters. Oysters are sourced from Richard Haward’s Oysters and can be bought either freshly dressed, with toppings that range from nduja and honey to a Thai mignonette, or grilled with Irish churnmaster Abernethy’s black garlic butter and parmesan. The latter is grunt-worthy grub.

The oyster bar at Claude Bosi’s Michelin-starred Bibendum in Chelsea is as sexy and Gallic as the man himself, which is to say that it’s extremely sexy and gallic. The chef’s selection, running to eight regions from three countries, even includes the amazingly named Amazing oysters from the Marennes-Oléron oyster beds in France.

Part deli, part fish shop and part seafood bar, The Sea, The Sea is a wholly worthy spot where eating oysters just feels ... Right. Sidle up to the bar, order six or twelve oysters freshly rendered apart by executive chef Leo Carreira, and remember why there’s so much romance written about the gnarly little creatures.

Only available from September through to April, the oysters at Wiltons Restaurant are some of the finest and freshest in the city. Expect to find Helford natives, Jersey Rocks and Colchester natives on the menu around this time of the year. It’d be remiss not to try out the oysters served “Christian Dior” with white wine sauce, whipped cream and truffle. It’s just as extra as it sounds.

This Mayfair mainstay supposedly gets through upwards of 1,000 oysters a day, which is absolutely mad. The oyster bar here is well-stocked with native oysters from West Mersea, Helford and Galway — best served nude — as well as cultivated Jersey, Menai and Carlingford Rocks that can be tarted up either Vietnamese or Rockerfeller-style.

As far as date night options go in the strangely sterile Coal Drops Yard, The Drop Wine Bar is one of the best bets. The wine list is full of some fairly interesting bottles that start from a friendly £27, and the opportunity to pair some of that plonk with a fat Jersey or Carlingford is difficult to pass up.

Parsons is a friendly spot, where it’s impossible not to feel at ease with a glass of something bright — the owners also run excellent wine bar The 10 Cases just across the road — and a plate of something briny. Both Jersey oysters and Colchester Rocks are available, and sometimes there might be a deep-fried oyster snack.

Presented with the Best Restaurant gong at the OFM Awards 2019, Matt Lovell and Rob Hampton initially set up their shucking service as a means to host first-class oyster bars at

weddings and events. It’s since grown into one of Covent Garden’s most accomplished and pleasant neighbourhood restaurants, with a rotating selection chalked up on blackboards and buffalo oysters or oysters lardo on the cooked side.

Porthilly Rocks at this 35-seater in Highbury come either raw, for an affordable £3, or deep-fried with garlic and crème fraîche, for a still-affordable £4. Both are delicious, and both a shining, if somewhat barnacled example, of how Prawn on the Lawn is a pearl of a place that does the basics oh-so right.

Richard Corrigan is a man responsible for not one but two entries on this list and, all things considered, it’s fairly safe to say that the fella is mad for oysters. Jersey Rock, Colchester and West Mersea native oysters can all be found on the menu at his latest restaurant on Old Street. Just don’t squeeze any lemon into a native on his watch — that’s a cardinal sin in his eyes.

Just like everything else that finds its way into the kitchen at this Shoreditch stalwart, Jersey oysters are given the wood grill treatment at Brat and roasted with minced celery and seaweed for an extra umami punch. There’s not much else to say except that these are some of the best oysters going from one of the best restaurants going.