Fill your boots with plates of plantain, tender goat curry, fluffy rotis, rice and peas, and salt fish with ice cold beers or whatever you fancy. Read more.
If you’d like to go with a big group, just book ahead and the friendly staff can set aside half the restaurant for you. Make sure to try the Viet-style spring rolls and chilli squid. Read more.
As well as the alcoholic tipple you’ve brought along yourself, get a few jugs of mango lassie – it’s the most exquisitely creamy smoothie you’ll ever taste. Read more.
Unlike its younger siblings, the original Soho outpost of the Breakfast Club is BYOB at dinner time. Although these guys are big on brekkie (natch) there’s also a damn fine supper menu. Read more.
A short walk from Whitechapel station, this is the finest in traditional Punjabi cuisine and so popular, you’re guaranteed a bit of a wait. BYOB, with no corkage fee. Just remember to book. Read more.
The Bonnington Café is maintained by a collective of international cooks and on any given day the menu could offer anything from Japanese to medieval-inspired grub. Read more.
Take a leaf out of their book and start with a mezze platter to share – bread still warm from the oven, garlicky yoghurt and smoked aubergine – before moving on to grilled kebabs. Read more.
What you might not know is that on Mondays, these steakhouses offer BYOB, which goes down well because the prices on its wine list creep well into the hundreds. There’s a generous £5 corkage fee. Read more.
It’s no-frills, café-style eating with all the usual suspects – haddock, cod, plaice and halibut – cooked to golden, crispy perfection. Try the homemade pud – jam sponge and custard. Read more.
This is French chicken – by the quarter, half or whole – roasted in front of your eyes and served with fries or the creamiest gratin dauphinoise or even corn on the cob. BYOB with a £5 corkage. Read more.
