Haggerston, Mediterranean Restaurant Guide

“Ed Wilson seems to be spending even more time in the kitchen, so the food is better than ever” at the eternally hip East London fixture he has run near Columbia Road flower market for 15 years and counting. “The wine list is always interesting”, and helped pioneer the shift toward natural and low intervention wines that is now common currency. (Even the odd reporter who was “not blown away by the food” said “maybe we made the wrong choices or just hit a bad day” – and considered their meal “enjoyable”.)