Wapping, British, Modern Restaurant Guide

This “elegant-looking restaurant” on Wapping High Street “oozes class, its big, bright dining room opening to views of Tower Bridge”. The London offshoot of Essex institution Smith’s of Ongar, it provides “a wide choice of fish served simply, with an emphasis on freshness and quality”; plus a level of “service which is becoming increasingly hard to find in the post-pandemic and Brexit era”. A good number of best meals of the year are reported here from diners in our annual poll.