Neighbourhood
Shoreditch
Shoreditch has more good dinners per square mile than any postcode in London.
By
Clara Whitfield
An editorial note
Shoreditch has, of all the central-London neighbourhoods, changed most in the last ten years and moved most of its restaurant life into the side streets. The hum of the high street has not gone away; it has simply stopped being the point.
What Shoreditch is good for
A serious dinner that does not require Mayfair. A walk-in wine bar. A fire-grilled fish. A late drink.
What Shoreditch is not good for
A quiet Saturday night.
Where to eat in Shoreditch
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Brat
Tomos Parry's wood-fire restaurant on Redchurch Street is the most exciting dinner in East London. It has been, for most...
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Lyle's
James Lowe's restaurant in the old Tea Building on Shoreditch High Street is the most precise tasting menu in London. Sh...
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Rochelle Canteen
Margot Henderson's restaurant inside a converted Victorian bike shed, behind a locked green door off Arnold Circus, is s...
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Worth a wander
- Redchurch Street
- Brat at the west end. Cafe, gallery, a pair of pubs. Walk east for the market.
- Arnold Circus
- A Victorian bandstand, Rochelle Canteen through the green door, a pint at the Owl and the Pussycat.
- Kingsland Road
- The Vietnamese half of East London. Song Que for pho; Viet Grill for everything else.
