"You’re never quite sure what you’re getting with theatre-adjacent restaurants. But at Lasdun, you’re guaranteed comforting, swish British food in a stylish restaurant inside the National Theatre. The Brutalist lines and textures of this restaurant give it an Orwellian feel but, pre-theatre, it’s full of a humming and happy crowd. Go for the set menu—with things like smoked haddock fish cakes, pot roast ham, a chocolate and buckwheat tart—and you’ll be happy." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna