Slick new jazz bar and restaurant in Covent Garden which offers fine dining (or a relaxed drink if you pay a £5 cover) and two sets of live music each night. With plush décor and rather good food, this is a great date venue and an all round classy night out – it doesn’t come cheap though.

Octave is pretty small so ring ahead if you want a big table, but the small size actually makes the jazz sessions more atmospheric. There's a friendly, relaxed vibe and a night here is rather seductive.

The programme of performers is impressive but with so much schedule to fill they are not as picky as, say, Ronnie Scotts and you are just as likely to hear gentle pop or a singer songwriter as full on jazz. Octave is unlikely to win a top ten place in the heart of purists, but it is a great new jazz joint for London.

Octave is one of Spoonfed's Best Jazz Clubs in London.