"Core is a British fine dining restaurant inside a fancy townhouse. We’ve eaten the best carrot of our lives here and tested our phone’s storage capacity by going full stage mom over a perfect scallop tartare. Every course is excellent, the presentation of dishes will make you feel like you’ve stepped on to the set of a live-action fairy tale, and the service is slick but never stuffy. Make full use of the ‘show next available’ button on OpenTable because you’re never going to be able to book the specific date you want. Even then it’s a torturous game of playing around with dates until something close enough to what you’ve chosen triggers a hit. And then, take it. Take it even if it’s for 9:45pm in three months' time." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna