Restaurant in London

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

A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches, chef Steve Williams

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

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

Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican, generous, regional, unfussy

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

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

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

Pistachio-green Soho deli since 1944, pasta as Italian commute

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

Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual, sushi without the omakase ceremony