London Restaurants - Shoreditch, Clerkenwell

45 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3PT

Marcus Samuelsson's New York restaurant is hugely popular, and it's arrived at the Curtain Hotel in Shoreditch. The legendary yardbird fried chicken and Helga's meatballs are making it over here too.

9 Hoxton Square, London N1 6NU

This is and all-day French bistro from the people behind bars Happiness Forgets and Original Sin, Alastair Burgess and Chris Smith. It's aiming to bring the feel of a "cosy French bistro" to Hoxton and to make it affordable too.

21 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields, London E1 7HA

Canto Corvino comes from people behind the popular Manicomio restaurants. This modern Italian restaurant boasts an extensive Italian wine list, weekend brunches and more.

68–80 Hanbury Street London E1 5JL

Jago is the first restaurant from Louis Solley, who used to head up Ottolenghi in Notting Hill. He's now opening an all-day restaurant in Shoreditch with a focus on European and Ashkenazi inspired cuisine.

65A Brushfield Street, London E1 6AA

This restaurant and bar is from Clive Watson, who has previously opened Riding House Cafe, Village East and more. It's billed as "an informal take on a grand European brasserie".

8 East Road, Old Street, London N1 6AD

8-9 Hoxton Square, London N1 6NU

This is the second opening from Luke Wilson and Cameron Emirali who previously had such a big hit with 10 Greek Stret in Soho. Expect a very similar approach to the food and wine, but set in Hoxton.

8/9 Lamb Street, Old Spitalfields Market, London E1 6EA

This is the third London opening for the oyster and seafood restaurant, following Soho and Borough Market. Expect a similar offering of seafood and oysters at this Spitalfields location - but with a huge seawater tank into the middle of the restaurant stacked with 10,000 shellfish allowing diners to choose their own live crab, lobster or oysters.

100 Shoreditch High St, London E1 6JQ

The Ace hotels are always huge wherever they open, the New York one has April Bloomfiled in the house, and have a distinct hipsterish/trendy vibe about them. This Shoreditch outpost sees them bringing in the people behind Bistrotheque and Shrimpy's to run the restaurant, which will serve seasonal English food.

Monday – Saturday 11:30 – 23:00

On the Bab - which translates as served 'on the rice' - is East London's first anju restaurant (which according to Wikipedia is the traditional Korean cuisine of consuming food with alcohol, so it's got our vote) offering Korean sharing dishes - and a rather lethal-sounding cocktail list. The 30 seater restaurant won't take reservations and will be open every day for lunch and dinner.

68 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3AY

Jubo has opened at the Bedroom Bar in Shoreditch, specialising in crunchy Korean fried chicken wings and strips- coated in either soy garlic or hot sauce.

15 Westland Place, London N1 7LP

152 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3AT

It's the Brindisa group's fourth restaurant after taking on Soho, Borough and Kensington.This one is mainly featuring Mediterranean food and will also be blessed with a Cava menu.

40 St John's Street, Smithfield, London EC1M 4AY

It's the venue that B&L bought from Bistro Du Vin serving the same lobster, lobster roll or burger and chips that's doing so well elsewhere.

332 Old Street, Shoreditch, London EC1V 9DR

The people behind the much loved Viet Grill and Cay Tre get into the Banh Mi business.

11a Northington Street, London WC1N 2JF

Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High Street, London, E1 6JJ

102 Old Street, London EC1V 9AY

Sedap means delicious in Malaysian and the consensus so far is that this Old Street restaurant delivers on its name. Owners Yeoh Teng Chye and Mary Yeoh were last seen in the kitchen at Notting Hill's Nyonya.

4-6 Theobald's Road, London WC1X 8PN

76 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE

2-4 Boundary Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7JE

The fact that you can't book a table, may deter some from making the trek across town to the cafe at Terence Conran's new gastrodome in Shoreditch. But for those who either live the right side of town or are prepared to wait, there's a lot of things to love about Albion.

3 Hatton Wall, London EC1N 8HX

Brothers Tom and Ed Martin have made a career turning old boozers into gastropubs - some with notable success (The Botanist, Well Tavern and The Gun). But nobody seems to much like the Hat and Tun. Perhaps it's that in less penny pinching times we might have let an overpriced menu or wine list slide, but these days London diners (and critics) are more likely to stand up and decry such a blatant attempt to separate them from their hard-earned wages.