Remember that experiment at school where you put one hand in a bowl of hot water, the other in a bowl of cold water, and then plunge both into a bowl of...

Owner Shelagh Ryan's determination to bring Australian café culture to a London that was, back then, bereft of Antipodean cuisine has worked to turn Lantana...

What do we love most about this institution? Perhaps the brilliant moist salt beef, carved as you wait from a slab kept warm in the front window, or the...

Nicknamed 'Osaka soul food' because of its popularity in the Kansai region of Honshu, Japan's main island, okonomiyaki is akin to Spanish tortilla, but with...

The boundaries of Soho contain culinary representatives of a great many different nations, so it's heartening to see proper fish and chips flying the...

With its jarring mix of neon-yellow, black, white and wood, Yalla Yalla is hardly a place to linger. Tall stools around a communal high table, and an...

Bijou, charming and usually crowded, Yalla Yalla is painted white, its walls decorated in photos of old Beirut. Yellow lamps hang over a takeaway counter...

We love this Finnish-owned spot, and its new Marylebone offshoot. The counter set-up looks like any modern sandwich bar, but a quick glance at the food on...

Canela - meaning cinnamon stick in Portuguese - has done a decent job of providing the peasant food of Portugal and Brazil some sex appeal. This branch has...

Patties might rule the menu here, but the experience of dining at Haché is closer to that of an urbane modern restaurant than a burger bar. The interior is...

Malletti's an anomaly in this list, not because it's primarily a takeaway,but because it's a pizza al taglio joint. Pizza al taglio is the Roman take on...

Bright, fun and full of local workers taking lunch, Comptoir Libanais is part-canteen, part-delicatessen. One wall is lined with shelves containing...

Much of the business is in takeaways for nearby office workers, but katsu specialist Tsuru has smart tall wooden stools with matching benches for those who...