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

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

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

Coal Drops Yard sit-down taqueria, al pastor on a vertical spit, the rebranded Casa Pastor

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

The British steakhouse that taught London to take beef seriously

Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression, Spitalfields