BAO Soho Restaurant Restaurant Vergleichen Chef Led Casual Counter Dining BAO Soho Soho $$ Erchen Chang and the Chung siblings' original Lexington Street bun counter, Bib Gourmand Taiwanese, queue-only on the corner
Barrafina Dean Street Restaurant Restaurant Vergleichen Counter Dining Lively Casual Barrafina Dean Street Soho $$$ Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated, the Spanish bar London learned the format from
Dishoom Shoreditch Restaurant Restaurant Vergleichen Classic Convivial Lively Dishoom Shoreditch Shoreditch $$ Boundary Street's Bombay Irani café, the bacon naan roll Londoners queue for at breakfast
Diyarbakır Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Vergleichen Family Run Casual Diaspora Diyarbakır Restaurant Harringay $$ Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı, kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard
El Pastor Coal Drops Yard Restaurant Restaurant Vergleichen Taqueria Casual Mezcal El Pastor Coal Drops Yard King's Cross $$ Coal Drops Yard sit-down taqueria, al pastor on a vertical spit, the rebranded Casa Pastor
Kiln Restaurant Restaurant Vergleichen Chef Led Fire Cooked Casual Kiln Soho $$ Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter, Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument
Maison Bertaux Cafe Cafe Vergleichen Classic Intimate Literary Maison Bertaux Soho $$ Greek Street's 1871 patisserie, London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs
Mangal 1 Ocakbaşı Restaurant Restaurant Vergleichen Family Run Casual Loud Mangal 1 Ocakbaşı Dalston $$ The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990, BYOB, walk-in only, untouched
Riding House Fitzrovia Cafe Cafe Vergleichen Modern Convivial Lively Riding House Fitzrovia Fitzrovia $$$ Great Titchfield Street's all-day brasserie, the Fitzrovia office and the Sunday brunch in one room
Smokestak Restaurant Restaurant Vergleichen Loud Industrial Casual Smokestak Shoreditch $$$ David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse, the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to
Sumi Restaurant Restaurant Vergleichen Sushi Casual Neighbourhood Sumi Notting Hill $$$ Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual, sushi without the omakase ceremony