Donia

The 25 Best Restaurants In London - London - The Infatuation

"Off Carnaby Street, in a hellish courtyard crowded with bewildered tourists and vape fumes, is a Filipino-born and London-bred restaurant doing its own thing. At Donia, devour lamb caldereta ingeniously reinvented in pie form and investigate all manner of lush, layered sauces. This restaurant doesn’t whisper sweet nothings with its food, it introduces itself and gives you a back-breaking embrace before kissing your forehead for good measure. Whatever you do, don’t leave this humming room without destroying the ube choux dessert. It’s the perfect end to a one-of-a-kind menu that goes to show that Donia is London’s new-age dining scene at its most exciting." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, heidi lauth beasley