Restaurants

That Place on the Corner

Children-friendly caff that doesn't forget about adults

Stoke Newington: 1-3 Green Lanes, N16 9BS

Distance: 0.1 mls

Beyti

In addition to Turkish restaurant food, Beyti offers Black Sea and northern Anatolian dishes. This is enough to make the restaurant worth finding, even though its...

Newington Green: 113 Green Lanes, N16 9DA

Distance: 0.1 mls

La Fromagerie

Highbury: 30 Highbury Park, N5 2AA

Distance: 0.4 mls

Iznik

A chain mail surcoat and helmet hang just inside Íznik’s door, preparing visitors for an interior full of fascinating clutter. The restaurant has built a strong...

Highbury: 19 Highbury Park, N5 1QJ

Distance: 0.4 mls

Tina, We Salute You

Tea and cakes in Newington Green

Newington Green: 47 King Henry's Walk, N1 4NH

Distance: 0.5 mls

Garufa

Argentinian food near the Arsenal

Highbury: 104 Highbury Park, N5 2XE

Distance: 0.5 mls

Istanbul Iskembecisi

Once the flagship restaurant of the area, Istanbul's main claim to fame now is that it stays open until 5am; there's permanently something of the early hours about...

Dalston: 9 Stoke Newington Road, N16 8BH

Distance: 0.6 mls

Mangal II

A bustling crowd fills Mangal II most evenings, making it one of the most popular Turkish restaurants on a strip that has many. Families like to come here for Sunday...

Dalston: 4 Stoke Newington Road, N16 8BH

Distance: 0.6 mls

19 Numara Bos Cirrik I

This popular little restaurant, set on the busy main drag, needs to get its door fixed so it stops swinging open – but there isn’t much else to criticise here....

Dalston: 34 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XJ

Distance: 0.6 mls

Olive Tree

It's all about cooking like mamma used to at Olive Tree. Run by Athenians, this Greek restaurant does a nice line in the kind of experience you'd expect to get at a...

Finsbury Park: 177A Blackstock Road (entrance on Mount Grove Road), N5 2LL

Distance: 0.6 mls

Somine

Locals come here for hearty staples at bargain prices, choosing from a changing selection of dishes scrawled above the counter. The dips were pleasant enough, if...

Dalston: 131 Kingsland High Street, E8 2PB

Distance: 0.6 mls

Mangal Ocakbasi

With its legendary reputation for grills, Mangal doesn’t bother with frills. It has started producing a takeaway menu, but diners are asked to choose from the long...

Dalston: 10 Arcola Street, E8 2DJ

Distance: 0.6 mls

CAM at Centerprise

Although a little rough around the edges, this Caribbean eaterie (attached to the specialist Centerprise bookshop) serves up large portions of quality chow for a few...

Dalston: 136-138 Kingsland High Street, E8 2NS

Distance: 0.6 mls

Nando's

Dalston: 148 Kingsland High Street, E8 2NS

Distance: 0.6 mls

Il Bacio Highbury

Highbury: 178-184 Blackstock Road, N5 1HA

Distance: 0.7 mls

Shanghai

In its heyday, the building now housing Shanghai was an eel and pie shop. Yet it’s amazing how the original fixtures, of green and blue tiles and wrought-metal...

Dalston: 41 Kingsland High Street, E8 2JS

Distance: 0.7 mls

Testi

Less is more' isn't a concept that holds much truck here. Take the decor: orange walls, a red marbled ceiling (bedecked with jewelled lamps) and wooden beads, wicker...

Stoke Newington: 38 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 7PL

Distance: 0.7 mls

Zigni House

Attractively conspiratorial and tattily bohemian from the outside, Zigni House provides an accommodating welcome once you step through its front bar and into the...

Islington: 330 Essex Road, N1 3PB

Distance: 0.7 mls

Blue Legume

Blue Legume is best known for its sterling brunches, making it a mecca for locals at the weekend. Hungover twenty-somethings dawdle over sticky, maple syrup-drizzled...

Stoke Newington: 101 Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0UD

Distance: 0.7 mls

Clicia

By day, Clicia is a good value neighbourhood café; by night, a popular restaurant liked for its down-to-earth cosiness. Pretty lamps cast their multicoloured over an...

: 97 Stoke Newington Church Street , London, N16 0UD

Distance: 0.7 mls

Café Z Bar

A standard café menu is complemented by a fair choice of Turkish mezes and grills. Muhamarra (a paste made from red peppers, walnuts and pomegranate syrup) made a...

Stoke Newington: 58 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 7PB

Distance: 0.7 mls

Exquisito

Though not on a stretch of the street saturated with fine restaurants, it's worth hunting out this amiable Mexican joint on Blackstock Road. There's a...

Highbury: 167 Blackstock Road, N4 2JS

Distance: 0.7 mls

Yildiz

You’ll find Yildiz a little away from the main drag of Finsbury Park, amid a parade of restaurants. The place has been recently redecorated, and now has cream walls...

Finsbury Park: 163 Blackstock Road, N4 2JS

Distance: 0.7 mls

Bodrum Café & Bar

With its wooden tables and yellow-painted walls, dotted with black-and-white photographs and posters for local jazz evenings, Bodrum Café has a cheerily laid-back,...

Stoke Newington: 61 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 8EL

Distance: 0.7 mls

Suya Obalende

In the heart of Dalston lies this popular Naija chop shop (for which read ‘Nigerian fast-food outlet’), affectionately known as the ‘African McDonald’s’....

Dalston: 523 Kingsland Road, E8 4AR

Distance: 0.8 mls

Marquess Tavern

The Marquess is a dining destination, certainly, but unlike so many gastropubs has retained a relaxing, local-pub character. Even if you’re planning to feast on the...

Islington: 32 Canonbury Street, N1 2TB

Distance: 0.8 mls

El Aguajal

With three restaurants in Peru and over 18 years of experience, the team behind El Aguajal have had no trouble bringing the best of their home country to London....

Dalston: 578 Kingsland Road , Dalston, E8 4AH

Distance: 0.8 mls

Il Bacio

The staff of Il Bacio welcome customers like old friends. Smiles and back-patting are followed by complimentary herbed olives and a basket of paper-thin Sardinian...

Stoke Newington: 61 Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0AR

Distance: 0.8 mls

Rasa

This, the original branch of the Rasa chain, caused a stir when it opened in 1997. The vegetarian home cooking of the Nair caste of Kerala had never before been so...

Stoke Newington: 55 Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0AR

Distance: 0.8 mls