Places in 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

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

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

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

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

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

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