Black Axe Mangal on Highbury Corner isn’t a typical restaurant. It’s a restaurant that loves heavy metal and cooking with offal.

Temper City is an open-fire BBQ restaurant with lots of meat, lots of curry, and an excellent soundtrack of classic 90′s rock.

Max’s Sandwich Shop in Stroud Green serves inventive sandwiches with buckets of personality. It’s fast becoming a North London institution.

Temper Covent Garden is a loud and fun spot from the same people behind the Soho and City branches. This one specialises in pizzas and ‘not pasta’.

Shackfuyu is a banging Soho spot to drink cocktails and eat tasty hipster Asian food. Get the wings and ice cream.

Chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s flagship restaurant serves modern Middle Eastern-sharing plates in a stunning, upscale dining room.

Dandy is a trendy cafe in Stoke Newington Green that’s good for a coffee and pastry during the day and, er, that’s about it.

Tayer and Elementary is a bar on Old Street that serves Tata Eatery’s famous katsu sando, as well as flatbread and rices dishes you should check out.

Spiritland is a cool and casual restaurant and bar in the Royal Festival Hall with an all things to all people menu. It’s also open late on weekends.

Flavour Bastard is a fusion restaurant in Soho, where the dishes are a mashup of ingredients from different cultures and cuisines.