"Some restaurants toy with winter warmers in the same way we briefly indulge the idea of a ski holiday in the midst of eating fridge-aged camembert in bed. But The Yellow Bittern in King’s Cross is committed to its Austenian breed of comfort food and analogue escapism 365 days a year. The blackboard menu of British-Irish dishes changes regularly but you can expect the likes of cottage pie, champagne-soaked pigeon pie, and a Dublin coddle that is not a pie, but does involve a supremely mood-boosting stew." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak