Cadet

"Corridor-sized and full of cheese-grating cheekbones, Cadet is a Newington Green wine bar so European that the chippy two doors down feels out of place. The high chairs mean it’s not exactly a crowd-pleaser but for small plates aficionados, few do it better." - jake missing, heidi lauth beasley, sinead cranna

"Cadet is a matchbox-sized, oat-toned, chalk-and-board N16 wine bar that’s good in both the bottles and small plates departments. It’s where you go to drink pinot noir and lazily spread mousse de canard at 10pm on a Sunday night. But equally this Newington Green wine bar is popular with couples bedding in at the bar on a Friday night, and young families on a Sunday afternoon. Regardless of when you come, you'll more than likely be making a night out of Cadet on a regular basis." - heidi lauth beasley, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna

"The word ‘nice’ has a bad rep. It’s a word you use to describe people you go on exactly two dates with and never speak to again. But Cadet, a matchbox-sized Newington Green wine bar, is just so… nice. The smiles are large, the European-leaning plates are small, and the servers are always ready to top up your glass with something crisp and fizzy. Never underestimate the cortisol-dropping potential of lazily spreading mousse de canard while you scroll through Uniqlo’s fresh drop of cashmere beanies on your phone." - heidi lauth beasley, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna

"Eater London’s Restaurant of the Year 2022 is comprised of three discrete yet intertwined endeavours. Downstairs in the basement kitchen, George Jephson butchers whole animals, repurposing them as immaculate charcuterie, while upstairs, chef Jamie Smart uses excellent ingredients to prepare simple plates that lean French and southern European — think trout poached in butter with roe and sorrel; or a roast game bird with quince and bitter leaves. Sommeliers Tom Beattie and Fran Roberts, the duo behind the wine importer bearing both names, run the bar and the floor with a small team. Cadet is a wine bar, a restaurant, a charcutier, and a shopfront; it feels French and it feels London; and, from the moment it opened, it has always felt just right." - Adam Coghlan

"Cadet, a Newington Green spot, is one of those rare things: a restaurant and wine bar that’s open on a Sunday night. The kitchen is open until 9:30pm and the bar stays open for an extra hour. It’s a matchbox-sized, oat-toned, chalk-and-board, walk-in only N16 spot that’s big on bottles and small on plates. " - Jake Oliver, Sinead Cranna