Hix at Selfridges © Rob Greig
London's best new restaurants and bars
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By Time Out editors
Posted: Wed Apr 7 2010 -
Every week Time Out's Food & Drink critics scour the capital for the hottest new tables. Whether it's a bar, cafe, gastropub or restaurant these are best we've found in 2010 so far
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Bistrot Bruno Loubet
The Zetter, St John’s Square, 86-88 Clerkenwell Rd, EC1M 5RJ (7324 4455/ www.thezetter.com)
Bruno Loubet was a lauded London chef in the 1990s, with his various restaurant projects in the capital earning him much praise from the critics. Now he’s back in an informal bistro setting in The Zetter hotel in Clerkenwell. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £90. Read more
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Caravan
11-13 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QD (7833 8115/www.caravanonexmouth.co.uk)
The Probat bean roaster in the basement and the single-origin filter blends are a giveaway – this brasserie and café in Clerkenwell is serious about its coffee. Food is good too – the Antipodean-style menu provides well for breakfast, brunch and lunch. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £35. Read more
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Empress of Sichuan
6-7 Lisle St, WC2H 7BG (7734 8128)
Sichuan cooking is spreading through London and here’s the latest place to serve up the tongue-numbing flavours of the south-western Chinese province. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £60. Read more
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Hix at Selfridges
Selfridges, 400 Oxford St, W1U 1AT (7499 5400/www.hixatselfridges.co.uk)
Restaurateur Mar Hix’s third London restaurant, this time a concession inside Selfridges. Interesting British food is championed, but prices are high. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £90. Read more
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Lanka
71 Regent’s Park Rd, NW1 8UY (7483 2544/www.lanka-uk.com)
Japan meets France in this miniature café in Primrose Hill from chef Masayuki Hara. The small selection of savoury dishes (soup, omelette, salad, for example) is complemented by dainty, beautiful desserts and cakes – macarons, gateaux and tarts. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £30. Read more
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Southampton Arms
139 Highgate Rd, NW5 1LE (07958 780 073)
This is an excellent local pub with a solid commitment to proper real ales and ciders from independent brewers. Snacks are limited to pork pies and Scotch eggs. Read more
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Angels & Gypsies
29-33 Camberwell Church St, SE5 8TR (7703 5984/www.angelsandgypsies.co.uk)
This tapas bar, with a range of influences from Sephardic to Basque cooking, is Camberwell’s new destination eatery. The service is warm and accommodating too. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £60. Read more
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Canton Arms
177 South Lambeth Rd, SW8 1XP (7582 8710)
Trish Hilferty, formerly of the Fox, the Anchor & Hope and Great Queen Street, is now working at this refurbed pub in Stockwell serving her distinctive style of simple British cooking. The drinks list offers plenty of delightful accompaniment, with four real ales and well-chosen wines. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £50. Read more
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Container Cafe
The Greenway, Marshgate Lane, E15 2PJ (07530 274160/www.theviewtube.co.uk)
Although it’s worth a visit for the view over the rapidly developing Olympic stadia alone, this little community café in the middle of London’s biggest and busiest building site is a fun place for great coffee and thoughtful home-cooked food. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £20. Read more
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Hackney Pearl
11 Prince Edward Rd, E9 5LX (8510 3605/www.thehackneypearl.com)
An all-day café in Hackney Wick catering for local artists and bohemians with simple but satisfying dishes such as fishcakes or spice-crusted chicken. Open until 11pm. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £40. Read more
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Japanika
10 Hanbury St, E1 6QR (www.japanika.co.uk)
A tiny (and stylish) triangle-shaped café near New Spitalfields Market that serves a selection of good-value and very tasty raw and cooked Japanese food. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £15. Read more
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Palmers
238 Roman Rd, E2 0RY (8980 5590/www.palmersrestaurant.net)
Look beyond the plain, pedestrian interiors and you’ll find fair-priced, concisely cooked dishes of the Modern British variety served with zero pretension. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £70. Read more
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Towpath
42 De Beauvoir Crescent (entrance on Regent’s Canal), N1 5SB (no phone/website)
This modest canalside café has considerable pedigree tied to it – it’s set up by Italian food writer Lori De Mori. Ingredient-led dishes such as cavolo nero on toast and grilled cheese sandwich are simple and beautifully executed – as you’d expect. Open daylight hours only. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £20. Read more
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Franco Manca (W4)
144 Chiswick High Rd, W4 1PU (8747 4822/www.francomanca.co.uk)
New branch of the iconic Brixton Market pizzeria, this time in Chiswick. This one is usefully open in the evenings, and you can book, unlike at the Brixton Market original which is daytime only – and has long queues. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £35. Read more
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Gail's
75 Salusbury Rd, NW6 6NH (7625 0068/www.gailsbread.co.uk)
The site that used to be Baker & Spice in Queen’s Park has been revamped and reborn, and serves pricey but impeccable baked goods to take home or eat in the little café at the back. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £25. Read more
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Manson
676 Fulham Rd, SW6 5SA (7384 9559)
Imaginative and dextrous food from chef Gemma Tuley at this upscale neighbourhood bistro (well, it is Fulham). Dishes show an understanding of classic European cooking, but aren’t afraid to show off a few esoteric touches here and there. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £90. Read more
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Supperclub
12 Acklam Rd, W10 5QZ (8964 6600/www.supperclub.com)
Is it a bar? Is it a restaurant? Is it a nightclub? Well, this trendy new outpost of the international chain pours drinks, serves food and encourages dancing. It also provides beds for patrons to attempt all three upon. It’s all as coolly conceptual as it sounds,with bouncers who look like the Bee Gees. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £125. Read more
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I cannot believe Time Out missed Mien Tay Battersea - the saviour of the south! This place has single handedly restored life on Lavender Hill.