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Simple, elegant and British through and through. Everything at Lyle's is hyper-seasonal and incredibly delicious. Come at lunch if you're in the mood for a la carte, as it's tasting menu only in the evenings.

Paul Hedge worked as a postman for nine years after leaving Goldsmiths, delivering letters to galleries in St James while quizzing the staff about exhibitions. He first opened his own gallery in a derelict undertaker’s in Deptford with another Paul, Maslin. And in the interest of being anything but snooty, the Pauls ran a café to draw people in. Now inside the Tea Building along with Shoreditch House, Hales regularly places artists’ works in the collections of the Tate and New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Friends Angelina Volk and Leopold Thun launched this gallery a week after they handed in their university dissertations in 2016. Its opening show was a functioning sauna by Lithuanian artist Augustus Serapinas – who went on to become the youngest ever exhibitor at the Venice Biennale. Emalin now has two Shoreditch outposts (inside a former locksmith shop near Bethnal Green and, since 2024, in the 18th-century Clerk’s House); both are a must-visit on an east London art trail.