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Shoreditch
Chef-led & Loose

Shoreditch

East London chef-led wave, Brat, Lyle's, Sessions

Shoreditch is the East London anchor, the post-2008 chef-led wave's home base, where Brat (Cornishman Tomos Parry's Basque grill), Lyle's, and the original Berber & Q wave reset what East London restaurants meant. Less Mayfair-formal, more chef's-table-energy; the traveller books here when they want the cooking to be the headline rather than the room's history. Plus St. John (Smithfield-edge), Brawn, Sessions Arts Club orbit.

Highlights

Brat (Tomos Parry, Michelin star) Lyle's (1 Michelin star) Sessions Arts Club Post-2008 chef-restaurant wave
14 places
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Restaurant

10 places

Brat Restaurant
Brat - Restaurant in Shoreditch, London
Editor's Pick
Restaurant
Chef Led Wood Fire Intimate
$$$$

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking

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Cycene Restaurant
Cycene - Restaurant in Shoreditch, London
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Restaurant
Chef Led Intimate Modern Minimalist
$$$$

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline

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Smokestak Restaurant
Smokestak - Restaurant in Shoreditch, London
Restaurant
Loud Industrial Casual
$$$

David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse, the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to

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Padella Shoreditch Restaurant
Padella Shoreditch - Restaurant in Shoreditch, London
Restaurant
Casual Queue Only Loud

The fresh-pasta queue London actually accepts, Shoreditch sister of the Borough original

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Dishoom Shoreditch Restaurant
Dishoom Shoreditch - Restaurant in Shoreditch, London
Restaurant
Classic Convivial Lively

Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast

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Hawksmoor Spitalfields Restaurant
Hawksmoor Spitalfields - Restaurant in Spitalfields, London
Restaurant
Steakhouse Institution Group Dining

The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously

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Manteca Restaurant
Manteca - Restaurant in Shoreditch, London
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Restaurant
Nose To Tail Wood Fire Buzzy
$$$

Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road, house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch

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Som Saa Restaurant
Som Saa - Restaurant in Spitalfields, London
Restaurant
Regional Chef Favourite Spicy
$$$

Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression, Spitalfields

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El Pastor Coal Drops Yard Restaurant
El Pastor Coal Drops Yard - Restaurant in King's Cross, London
Restaurant
Taqueria Casual Mezcal

Coal Drops Yard sit-down taqueria, al pastor on a vertical spit, the rebranded Casa Pastor

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Da Terra Restaurant
Da Terra - Restaurant in Bethnal Green, London
Restaurant
Michelin Two Star Chef Driven Destination
$$$$

Rafael Cagali's two-Michelin-star tasting room inside the Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green's destination kitchen.

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Bar

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Tayēr + Elementary Bar
Tayēr + Elementary - Bar in Old Street, London
Bar
Modern Intimate Artistic

World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half

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Discount Suit Company Bar
Discount Suit Company - Bar in Aldgate, London
Bar
Intimate Moody Convivial

Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope

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Happiness Forgets Bar
Happiness Forgets - Bar in Hoxton, London
Bar
Intimate Moody Convivial

Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010

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Black Rock Bar
Black Rock - Bar in Shoreditch, London
Bar
Whisky No Frills Expert Led

Shoreditch's whisky reference, 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table

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