The Clove Club London

The Clove Club sits inside the former Shoreditch Town Hall on Old Street. It holds two Michelin stars and three AA rosettes, and it currently ranks no. 79 on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.

The kitchen focuses on creative, contemporary cooking that feels at odds with the typical pub-heavy rhythm of this corner of London. While the room runs smart and elegant, it lacks the stifling austerity that often clings to other two-star venues in the city. You choose this place over its more traditional neighbors not for the formality, but for the way it uses its historic, high-ceilinged address to deliver a menu that feels genuinely experimental. It is a ten-minute walk from Shoreditch High Street, but the distance creates enough of a buffer to ensure that the dining room remains a quiet, focused departure from the surrounding sprawl.