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.

A curious mix on paper – Italian and Spanish – it works rather wonderfully in the hands of the team at Ember Yard in Soho

This relatively new ‘Indian’ restaurant in Mayfair, is a rich and wonderful experience.

It’s the first outpost in the capital for the hotel mini-chain, bringing the total number to eleven across three continents (with one more on the way).

Nick goes clubbing, takes a message from art and hoovers up some very fine food

What can visitors expect from the inventive, rotating menu?

Up in the Midlands, Anita discovers the pleasures of an Edwardian dining room followed by a fine room for the night