"Sohaila feels something like respite in Shoreditch. The Lebanese-influenced wine bar and restaurant has a low-key, lazy, candlelit feel to it. With a downstairs bar area, it’s just as good for a funky after-work glass as it is for a full meal upstairs. The menu changes weekly and is a bits-and-bobs place—flatbread, creamy halloumi with honey and za’atar, spiced beef and lamb meatballs, and the like. It’s run by Fat Macy’s, a social enterprise that helps Londoners move from hostels into their own homes, which is very much worth supporting." - rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, jake missing