WAVE

Wave sits on Dispensary Lane in Dalston, a street that's quietly become one of East London's best for eating. You'll walk in to a buzzy, unpretentious space where the menu changes regularly and actually makes you want to eat vegetables. The cooking here is genuinely skilled — not vegan food that's trying to apologise for itself, but dishes built on technique and real flavour. Expect things like properly executed curries, inventive grain bowls, and pastries that would hold their own anywhere in the city. It's the kind of place where non-vegans end up here by accident and leave impressed.