Brat Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Wood Fire Intimate Brat Shoreditch $$$$ Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship — whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking
Mangal II Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Family Run Intimate Chef Led Mangal II Dalston $$$ The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994 — the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to
Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Wine Led Bistro Magazine Room Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bloomsbury $$$ The wine-magazine bar — Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015
107 Wine Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Residency Natural Wine Tiny Room 107 Wine Lower Clapton $$$ P. Franco's successor at 107 Lower Clapton — a 25-cover wine shop with a hot plate at the back, chef residencies kept
40 Maltby Street Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Natural Wine No Reservations 40 Maltby Street Bermondsey $$$ A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches — chef Steve Williams
Brawn Restaurant Restaurant Compare Chef Led Natural Wine Intimate Brawn Bethnal Green $$$ Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro — the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen
Diyarbakır Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Compare Family Run Casual Diaspora Diyarbakır Restaurant Harringay $$ Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı — kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard
Gökyüzü Restaurant Restaurant Compare Family Run Polished Diaspora Gökyüzü Harringay $$ The Yavuz family's Green Lanes flagship since 1999 — the polished mainstream of London Turkish
Mangal 1 Ocakbaşı Restaurant Restaurant Compare Family Run Casual Loud Mangal 1 Ocakbaşı Dalston $$ The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990 — BYOB, walk-in only, untouched
Noble Rot Soho Restaurant Restaurant Compare Wine Led Historic Room Burgundy Deep Noble Rot Soho Soho $$$ The larger Greek Street sister — 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen
Smokestak Restaurant Restaurant Compare Loud Industrial Casual Smokestak Shoreditch $$$ David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse — the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to