No:55 Restaurant and Bar

Head down Portland Street towards Spinningfields and you'll find No:55 tucked into the Clayton Hotel—a restaurant that doesn't make a fuss about itself, which honestly is quite refreshing. It's the kind of place where you can roll in for breakfast, a business lunch, or an evening drink without feeling like you need to dress up or book three weeks ahead. The room's got that modern hotel-restaurant polish without being sterile: clean lines, good lighting, and enough space between tables that you're not eavesdropping on someone's pitch meeting. The menu swings towards contemporary British cooking—proper stuff, not overthought—and the bar crew actually know what they're doing with a cocktail. It works because it doesn't try too hard.