Finn Food Brief — Eater's best 38 London restaurants, Dean's brings the British pub to NYC, and restaurants enter their blue period
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The reference guide every London restaurant inquiry should anchor on: Eater's "38 Best London Restaurants, According to Eater's Local Dining Expert." The piece has been compiled and iterated over a decade. The framing is right — London's food scene now spans dim sum, Sunday roasts, curries, pizza, sinasir, rarebits, banh mi, udon, pepper pot, sweetbread suya, and natural wine. The piece is one of the strongest contemporary arguments that London competes with Tokyo, Mexico City, and New York at the top of global dining; it's a document worth bookmarking if you travel for work or food.
The NYC opening worth your reservation app: per Eater, chef Jess Shadbolt and co-owner Annie Shi (King) opened Dean's — a classic British pub right next door to their Soho bistro. Standout dishes: stargazy pie (a pot pie with a whole fish head gazing up from the crust), classic fish and chips, plenty of Guinness, served in pints and also in shot glasses as oyster chasers. The cultural reading: post-pandemic London-NYC dining cross-pollination is genuinely producing original work rather than diaspora-cuisine pastiche. Dean's is the most fully-realized version of that exchange this year.