Ploussard restaurant

You're walking down St John's Road in Battersea and suddenly you're somewhere that feels properly Parisian without any of the theatre. Ploussard does that thing where the cooking is confident enough not to shout about itself—think classic French technique applied to seasonal ingredients without overthinking it. The wine programme is genuinely useful rather than pretentious, which matters when you're sat at one of those intimate tables. It's the kind of spot locals keep coming back to because the kitchen's consistent and nobody's trying too hard to be fashionable.