"Abeno is your double date dream if you’ve convinced yourself you have nothing to say to two people you’ve literally never met. The reason being is that this Japanese okonomiyaki spot in Bloomsbury is as entertaining as it is tasty. Watching one of the superb chefs fry and flip everything from a cottage pie okonomiyaki to prawn dumplings, can form at least 60% of the conversation. Which is, surely, more than enough. Your other half can pick up the remaining 40%." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, sinead cranna