Grilled Set B, seaweed salad, little bit of sushi, small hot jugs of saké: totally Tokyo-tastic in the heart of Hampstead. Read more.
The best Singapore laksa outside Singapore. Best char kuay teow outside Kuala Lumpur. Unbeatable Singapore cooking all round and very good Cantonese standards for scaredy cats. Read more.
The lamb is terrific, the chicken shwarma is from free-range birds, they bake their own flatbreads and they’ve restored the Victorian shop front to create a gleaming jewel on grotty Kentish Town Road. Read more.
Britain’s best Chinese outside London. Tell them you want roasted things – ducks, pigs – and are not averse to Shanghainesery and the fiery spice of Sichuan, and then leave yourself in their hands. Read more.
I don’t like to see too much sciency foamy frozen bollocky bollocks on menus as a rule, but this is the court of British food’s Faerie King and he can do no wrong in my book. Read more.
