The Fox Dining Room

Nestling above a properly unpretentious Shoreditch pub, the Fox’s modest, sunny upstairs dining room combines cosy domesticity with interesting food to winning effect. The decor may have an almost sepia-tint feel, but there’s nothing faded or outmoded about the cooking: beetroot & dill soup with Greek yoghurt or stuffed courgette flowers with ricotta & lemon to start, before homemade pappardelle with wild mushrooms & gremolata or perhaps pan-fried sea bass with caponata & tapenade. There are plenty of affordable wines on offer, with a reasonable selection by the glass, but the City-fringe location makes itself felt in the selection of fizzes, with a 1998 Dom Pérignon crowning the list.