A vegan popup in an old butcher’s has Nick slicing out the superlatives.

Good Grief Charlie’s at Brown! You’re not cheap but you are rather wonderful.

Perfect for beating the winter blues and pretending you’re somewhere much more palatable than grey, bleak London.

Poppy Laking saddles up for some good ole’ Kansas City BBQ at newly opened Prairie Fire.

Where once meat ruled, fish came to the fore. After twenty years of staring in the window, finally Nick eats at Randall & Aubin

Danielle Woodward is prolonging the festive feels at the Winter Gingerbread Terrace at German Gymnasium, open all January

Where we sample seafood and cocktails in a grand former church

What do you get when you open up a restaurant designed only for the restaurant trade to the public? Mighty good cooking with a very cool ambience, that’s what.

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog, adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing. The menu at Seveni is certainly challenging, so it’s perhaps not a place to take your vegan friends.

Walk through a pretty deserted Hackney road, open a creaking old door and be welcomed by beaming smiles and home-brewed beer. You’ve found the right place.