Venues similar to El Pastor Coal Drops Yard

The fresh-pasta queue London actually accepts, Shoreditch sister of the Borough original

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Yavuz family's Green Lanes flagship since 1999, the polished mainstream of London Turkish

The Cut's no-bookings gastropub, what Waterloo eats before the National Theatre

Paddington Street modern Greek, sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.

Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms, wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking