Shoreditch, International Restaurant Guide

New to the Brick Lane drinking and dining scene, this two-floor venue (plus garden) offers up fun food (sharing plates & buns) and serious cocktails.

The trend for open-air street-food venues just keeps getting bigger; this latest seasonal (May-August) opening in Shoreditch features pop-ups from Nanny Bill's and The Belli Fresci (of avocado chips fame), an urban beach and a karaoke toom, plus a small-plates restaurant with food by Ben Spalding.

A fourth branch of this mushrooming chain of casual Hawaiian joints opens in Old Spitalfields Market, catering to London’s latest food craving: poké (raw fish).

Mark Hix's Tramshed restaurant may be gone (his business went in to administration during lockdown), but the Tramshed building lives on, revived by Dominic Cools-Lartigue, founder of Street Feast. He fed 21,000 people with his Plate For London campaign during lockdown, and now he's brought three top chefs (Andrew Clarke, James Cochran and Zoe Adjonyoh) to this great space to create a socially distanced working-dining space. The main restaurant is downstairs, with food and music events on the schedule, and co-working areas.

On the site of Red Rooster (RIP) within the The Curtain Hotel (RIP), comes this summer 2021 newcomer within the newly opened Mondrian Shoreditch. Whether the name chef, Andalusian Dani Garcia, will spend much time here we don’t know, but he already has Bibos in Madrid, Marbella, Cádiz, and Doha, so maybe not. Some of his signature dishes will be on the menu (for example oxtail ravioli) alongside international hotel staples.