Places in Shoreditch

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

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

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

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

Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression, Spitalfields

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