Southwark, Portuguese Restaurant Guide

“Excellent Portuguese tapas at a very reasonable price” and a “wide selection of Portuguese wines” are found at this bar bedecked with blue-and-white azulejo tiles near Borough Market, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year – founder Max Graham is from the Churchill port family. A second branch in the City’s Broadgate development is “a great option for lunch – if you can find it amid the construction site” (and is not listed).

“I call it posh Nando’s… but I feel like that does it an injustice as it’s so much better than Nando’s!” – MJMK’s “jolly” piri piri chain can make “a very pleasant surprise”. The “atmosphere is very bright and fun” and they serve “great flavour-packed food at very reasonable prices” (“mostly tasty grilled meats” and “decent sharing plates” with some good veggie options too). The SE1 original is “big and buzzy” with an excellent plant-filled upstairs. The Victoria branch “suffers for being in the soulless glass and steel of Cardinal Place”, and is “best at lunchtime in the glass-roofed room upstairs”.