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

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

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

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

The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously

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

Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression — Spitalfields

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

James Lowe's one-Michelin-star Shoreditch room — the founding text of the East London modern-British school.

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

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

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

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

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