Venues similar to BAO Soho

Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter, Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument

Pistachio-green Soho deli since 1944, pasta as Italian commute

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

The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990, BYOB, walk-in only, untouched

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

Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı, kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard

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

The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre

Sam and Sam Clark's tapas-bar sister to Moro, eight metres along the same row, the small-plate version of the same kitchen.