Venues similar to Kiln

Erchen Chang and the Chung siblings' original Lexington Street bun counter, Bib Gourmand Taiwanese, queue-only on the corner

Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated, the Spanish bar London learned the format from

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

Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room, the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in

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

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

A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches, chef Steve Williams

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

Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual, sushi without the omakase ceremony

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

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

Nineteen seats around a single counter, two Michelin stars, and a tasting menu that reads like a daily field report from British producers.

Rainer Becker's original 2004 robatayaki, the Charlotte Street counter Roka grew from, with Shochu Lounge in the basement

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

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

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

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred room, Charlotte Street since 1991, in its 35th anniversary year