The Boot Italian Gastropub

You'll find yourself on Park Road heading towards something that looks like it could be any old local, then you step inside and realise someone's actually bothered to do this right. The Boot marries proper Italian food with genuine gastropub warmth—no faffing about with trends, just confident cooking and a bar that knows what it's doing. The sort of place where you can crack into a Negroni and a proper risotto on a Tuesday night without feeling like you're making an occasion of it, or where a Sunday roast crowd morphs into something altogether more Mediterranean by evening service.