Restaurant roundup
3 London restaurants for your next shortlist
Pizza in Newington Green, French cooking in Covent Garden and an American restaurant in Shoreditch.
These 3 restaurants offer different starting points for an evening out. This roundup draws on published reviews linked below. It isn’t a ranking or a report of our own visits.
Bar Etna: Newington Green
For a pizza-led evening, start with Bar Etna. Time Out’s Leonie Cooper describes a Sicilian-style wine bar and recommends its pizza. Read the full review to decide whether the food and setting sound like your kind of night.
Read Leonie Cooper’s Time Out review (19 May 2026). Restaurant details and more reviews.
Cassette: Covent Garden
For French bistro cooking in central London, consider Cassette on Maiden Lane. Time Out’s review describes the restaurant as a Parisian-style bistro from the team behind Levan. Its Covent Garden location makes it a different starting point from the neighbourhood options here.
Read Leonie Cooper’s Time Out review (28 October 2026). Restaurant details and more reviews.
Appalachia: Shoreditch
For American cooking with an emphasis on the grill, look at Appalachia. Sinéad Cranna’s Infatuation review praises the food and describes counter dining, while also discussing dishes she found less successful. That detail is more useful than treating a review’s presence as a blanket endorsement.
Read Sinéad Cranna’s Infatuation review (page dated 14 July 2026). Restaurant details and more reviews.
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