Venues similar to 40 Maltby Street

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

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

P. Franco's successor at 107 Lower Clapton, a 25-cover wine shop with a hot plate at the back, chef residencies kept

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter, Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument

Erchen Chang and the Chung siblings' original Lexington Street bun counter, Bib Gourmand Taiwanese, queue-only on the corner

The original Ali Dirik ocakbaşı on Arcola Street since 1990, BYOB, walk-in only, untouched

Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room, the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

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

Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated, the Spanish bar London learned the format from

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre

A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs

The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu

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

Tom Sellers' two-Michelin-star tasting room, the chapter's South-Bank fine-dining anchor

Jonny Lake and Isa Bal's two-Michelin-star à la carte room, Fat Duck alumni at neighbourhood register

Green Lanes' top-edged Southeastern Anatolian ocakbaşı, kuzu pirzola the Anatolian standard