Camden, British, Modern Restaurant Guide

“Distressed in all the right places” – Guy Ritchie and David Beckham have channeled their inner Marie Antoinette at this spring 2019 yearling – a Fitzrovia boozer transformed into their conception of a perfect country pub, and serving beers from Gritchie (Guy’s brewery). “The food here is so much better than it needs to be, with a short, ideal menu” of incongruously-polished small plates; and “with the Sunday menu augmented by a roast”. “Attentive staff and a room full of happy punters” complete the idyll.

2018 Review: On the first floor of Camden Stables, this new Camden Town brasserie, which includes a weatherproof roof terrace, opened in July 2017, complete with an ex-Chiltern Firehouse chef, and self-confessed ‘design swagger’.

Fans of the sunny yellow converted ice-cream truck that serves up Instagram-fodder cheese toasties all over London will be thrilled to hear of a permanent site for Mathew Carver's cheesey fare. Serving cheese for breakfast, lunch and dinner, The Cheese Bar will be championing urban cheese makers who are producing within the M25.

Hot on the heels of the announcement that crowdfunded craft brewers Brew Dog are opening in Tower Hill this year comes the news of a Cambridge Circus branch, on the site of Polpo's Ale & Bird branch (RIP).

A sharing plates restaurant and cocktail bar with a focus on organic, sustainable, seasonal and ethical principles, next to the Woolf Gallery (from whom they borrow their monthly-changing art displays); late night live DJs Thursday to Saturday.