"One of London’s most-loved Xinjiang restaurants, Silk Road is a go-to for brilliant-value spreads in a Muji-ish, any-occasion dining room. The Camberwell restaurant made its name for its Xinjiang lamb skewers, rubbed with cumin and invitingly charred at the edges, that are irresistible in flavour and price at just one pound a pop. There are plenty of other options on the menu: bowls of bouncy hand-pulled noodles waiting for a spoonful of chilli oil are all under a tenner." - jake missing, daisy meager, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak