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Core By Clare Smyth
A lot of high-end, fine dining spots are snoozefests, but if you aren't excited by Core By Clare Smyth, a British restaurant in Notting Hill, you need to check your pulse.
Sessions Arts Club
Glamorous, grandiose, and guaranteed to make you feel special, Sessions Arts Club is a restaurant in Clerkenwell where the feeling takes priority over the modern European food.
Yasar Halim
Yasar Halim is a Turkish bakery on Green Lanes where no-nonsense service belies the sweetness of flaky filo desserts and soft, pillowy breads.
A. Wong
Although A. Wong's food isn't bad, you're better off spending your money somewhere other than this dated Chinese fine dining restaurant in Victoria.
The Waterman’s Arms
The Waterman's Arms is a riverside pub in Barnes that serves great modern European food and even better Sunday roasts.
Alhaji Suya Brixton
The Brixton outpost of Alhaji Suya is a little northern Nigerian kiosk that makes ideal mid-afternoon snacks.
Veg & Tings
Veg & Tings, an all-vegetarian Caribbean spot in Brixton Village Market, is perfect for a summery lunch that's full of flavour.
Kinkally
Kinkally is a Georgian restaurant in Fitzrovia that could double as a Bond villain’s lair. It’s very cool, very dark, and very photogenic, but the dishes are hit and miss.
Lavo
Lavo is a huge Italian restaurant in Marylebone where the lively atmosphere, date night lighting, and delicious seafood make it perfect for special occasions.
Josephine Bouchon
If Josephine Bouchon, a French restaurant in Fulham, was an actual person, her goal in life would be to make you fall completely and hopelessly in love with her. And she'd succeed every time.
Yamany Corner
Yamany Corner is a spacious Paddington spot serving some solid Yemeni food, always with a warming bowl of soup to start.
Hijazi Corner
Hijazi Corner, a Yemeni spot in Marylebone, has a downstairs room where big groups sit cross-legged over half a lamb and friends eat mandi while keeping an eye on the game.
Taste Of Yemen
On Acton’s busy high street, Yemeni spot Taste Of Yemen is a popular option with locals looking to grab a takeaway bag of mandi and a meat-filled motabag for the road.
Detroit Pizza Islington
The Islington location of Detroit Pizza makes the same thick pies, as well as a few Italian-American classics, in a space that's made for big get-togethers.
Bab Al-Yemen
A Yemeni spot in West Brompton, Bab Al-Yemen is all about slow-cooked meats and hunkering down cross-legged with a lamb shoulder.
Queen Of Sheba
Queen Of Sheba is a Paddington restaurant where excellent Yemeni flatbread takes up half a table and sharing platters feed 10 people.
Bao Borough
The Borough Market location of Bao is a handy spot when you need a quick fix. The buns are good, but the bigger Taiwanese plates are even better.
Sushi Kanesaka
Sushi Kanesaka is London’s most expensive omakase restaurant, but this Mayfair spot isn’t worth the price tag.
Mambow
Small in size but big in flavour, Mambow is a Malaysian spot in Clapton where you should plan to order greedily.
Evi's
Evi's is a Greek restaurant in East Dulwich that's perfect for a hastily arranged Tuesday gossip sponsored by meltingly soft pork skewers.
Antepliler Künefe & Patisserie
Antepliler Künefe & Patisserie on Green Lanes serves some of London’s best künefe in a warm and inviting dining room that’s as perfect for a one-to-one as it is a late-night group dessert run.
Arlington
Arlington is a restaurant risen from the ashes of Le Caprice, and at this St. James's spot, it feels like the good times of the 1980s never went away.
Dream Xi'an
Dream Xi’an, an excellent Xi'anese restaurant in Tower Hill, is a welcoming spot for hunkering down with a book or a three-hour catch-up.
The Counter
A modern Turkish spot in Notting Hill, The Counter is making fun food in a moody dining room.