"£75 for seven courses Plates feels like a boutique country restaurant you’d escape to over a bank holiday weekend, but this plant-based Shoreditch restaurant is doing something different. The house bread is a perfect sourdough croissant made, somehow, without butter. While the semi-deconstructed mung and urad bean lasagna combines all the technique of a fine dining restaurant with the sloppiness of a lasagne shovelled on your sofa. There are barbecued mushrooms, miso sauces, and beetroot granitas in there too and, for a meal worth talking about, Plates should be high on your list." - jake missing