The Gate restaurant, Marylebone

The Gate restaurants in Islington and Hammersmith are some of the best vegetarian restaurants in London, and now they're getting a third location to add to the collection. The Indo-Iraqi founders are influenced by French and Italian cooking styles, so there's a mix of cuisines sympathetically blended, rather than a Giraffe-style jack-of-all-cuisines approach. They do a mean curry, too.

If the menu's anything like at their other locations, the braised carcofini is one to go for – it's a lentil-filled artichoke braised in rich tomato and red wine sauce served with gremolata (chopped lemon, garlic and parsley).