Restaurant in Shoreditch

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

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

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

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

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

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

The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously

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

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

Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression, Spitalfields