Restaurant in Clerkenwell & Farringdon

Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room, the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.

A patinated 18th-century courtroom turned dining room, Clerkenwell's most photographed kitchen

Sam and Sam Clark's tapas-bar sister to Moro, eight metres along the same row, the small-plate version of the same kitchen.

Fergus Henderson's nose-to-tail manifesto since 1994, the white-walled Smithfield room that wrote modern British cooking.

Seven seats, one chef, Edomae discipline, London's hardest reservation

Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house, Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.