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

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

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