We all love a warehouse-turned-restaurant and Bethnal Green’s Bistrotheque is a brilliant example of an industrial unit renovation gone very right – it’s polished but relaxed and lots of fun. The menu has a French accent, featuring dishes like steak tartare; chanterelle, shallot and marsala cream vol au vent; burger au jus; brown butter monkfish with cavolo nero and brown shirmp; and cherry meringue with pistachio cream and amarena cherries, and the cocktails are cracking too. And if you wanna take your dinner up a notch, you can get a show (often drag) as well in downstairs space The Cockatoo. No wonder it’s been a fave with the fashion set since it opened in 2004.
