You can see ORA’s shocking pink neon sign from a good distance away, so vibrant is it that it seems to throb. This new Thai restaurant tucked away in Little Portland Street is otherwise quite unassuming from the outside, but as you enter it’s a different story. It’s smart and comfortable, a great space to take your time and enjoy a meal, but don’t just take my word for it, check it out for yourself.

Anita Pati finds that ordering her meal off a touch screen is a touch odd, but warms to the food at Inamo St James the second branch of a concept that’s had a mixed reception for it’s Pan-Asian cuisine and futuristic concept.

Zenna Bar is London’s first Indian cocktail bar, found underneath The Red Fort, a pretty good Indian restaurant. Prior to this launch the venue hadn’t reached anywhere near full potential, averaging small weekly numbers of guests and takings. Now the bar has an atmosphere and is starting to create an identity as new life pulses through its veins.

Rivington Grill isn’t fine dining of course but it’s not downmarket either. Some dishes verge on the self-mocking and ironic, even by Shoreditch’s high standards, but the cooking is capable in a way that that is all about the ‘operation’ rather than just the chef and that’s no bad thing in our current celeb chef obsessed culture.

The latest restaurant from Aldo Zilli, the Italian chef behind Zilli Fish and Zilli Café. Zilli Green is vegetarian and gets its main inspiration from traditional Italian dishes fused with other styles of food from around the world. Not your typical sit-down restaurant, Zilli Green differentiates itself from the competition by offering a buffet as well as the standard menu.

Trained at Cape Town’s Higgs School of Good Cooking (Meerendal Hospitality Academy), Wet sharpened his craft at South African restaurants, Hauté Cabriere and De Oude Welgemoed (the latter offering Cape-Malay cuisine) then Brula Bistro, La Buvette, Landsdowne Club, Brasserie Roux (Sofitel St James) and The Carlton Club in London.

Gastro genius Claude Bosi has brought his cooking to where the Wombles live in an old pub doing classic dishes. The tastes are spot on, the prices are affordable and the locals, some of them very famous indeed are flocking in. No wonder as it’s a near faultless experience all the way.

Situated on the seafront of Aberystwyth, Gwesty Cymru is a Taste of Wales award-winning hotel and restaurant. Marcus Sedghi dropped by to find out what makes this restaurant win national honours.

From the outside, the Tommyfield certainly looks the part; smartly decked out in black, with large windows, and on a prominent corner plot, it’s very inviting. Like its sister venues, the Tommyfield offers good food and drink in smart, casual surroundings, delivered by friendly, efficient staff.