Six and a half

You're walking down Sharrow Vale Road—that stretch where the independent shops and proper restaurants cluster together—and you spot Six and a half tucked down a little side passage off Dyson Place. Inside, it's properly intimate: the kind of place where you feel like you're in on something good, not somewhere trying too hard to impress. The kitchen takes seasonal British ingredients and does interesting things with them without the faffery. It's the sort of restaurant locals actually book for special occasions but also don't mind popping into on a random Tuesday with mates.