"There’s a solid menu of comforting British food in this stylish restaurant inside the National Theatre from the Marksman folks. Lasdun’s Brutalist lines and textures give it an Orwellian feel but, pre-theatre, it’s full of a relatively soft crowd humming and happy to be down from the Cotswolds. Mid-show, things are much more quiet. There’s a two or three-course menu that hovers around the £40/£45 mark, and if you keep to the classics—the delicious buns, pies to share, a lush brown butter and custard tart—you’ll be happy." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, heidi lauth beasley, sinead cranna