The Good Front Room

You know that feeling when you're round someone's house and they've just put on a spread? That's the energy at The Good Front Room in Thomas Tower. It's the kind of restaurant that doesn't take itself too seriously but absolutely takes its food seriously—Caribbean cooking that tastes like it's been made with actual care rather than Instagram clout. The room itself is genuinely intimate, not in a trying-too-hard way, more like you've stumbled into someone's front room (hence the name). It's proper Dalston: unpretentious, warm, and a spot where regulars clearly feel at home.