5
"Noodle & Beer Chinatown is the jazz hands, 2.0 version of the original in Spitalfields. The Sichuan dishes are still great, but here they’ve dialled up the fun and added a sexy little velvet-clad basement. Braised beef ribs are expertly snipped off the Flintstone-like bone by servers, and walk-ins hunker down at the counter over bowls of buttery miso noodles all the way until 4am at the weekend." - jake missing, heidi lauth beasley, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna