Islington (London)

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• Naamyaa Café EC1

  Thai | London
  From Alan Yau/the Busaba Eathai team, a striking prototype, by Angel tube, for a contemporary-style Thai chain; on our early-days visit, we found we could add to the chorus of...

• Cruse 9 N1

  British, Modern | London
  A brave, newly-built restaurant – on a rather obscure north-Islington site – which has attracted some very positive press reviews; on our early-days visit, the food – which has a...

• Bacchus N1

  British, Modern | London
  In New York City, the closest equivalent to our own esteemed Gordon Ramsay is Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Each man holds three Michelin stars for his ‘name’ restaurant, and each is the...

• Upper Glas N1

  Scandinavian | London
  Given that London – as we all know – is the great melting pot of our times, it supports very few European restaurants that fall outside the known and usual...

• The Marquess Tavern N1

  British, Traditional | London
  There are compensations to being a restaurant critic. One of them is that you have to explore nooks and crannies of the capital you might never otherwise seek out. Canonbury,...

• The Living Room N1

  International | London
  It is a truth universally acknowledged amongst London sophisticates that provincial city-centre restaurants must be second-rate. For many years this was indeed true. And for many of those years the...