Café Sol London – Mexican Restaurant & Cocktail Bar

You're heading down Clapham High Street on a Friday night and the place is heaving—that's your first clue you're onto something decent. Café Sol does that rare thing of being both a proper sit-down restaurant and a proper cocktail bar without feeling like it's trying too hard at either. The kitchen knows what it's doing with Mexican cooking (not the Americanised stuff), and the bar staff actually know how to build a drink. It's the sort of spot where you can rock up for dinner and end up staying for three more rounds because the vibe's that good. Gets rammed, which says everything.