The Electric Brasserie

Opened in 2002 as part of the refurbishment of Portobello's famous Electric Cinema, England's first purpose-built cinema. A major revamp brought in soft leather seating and chic wooden tables - and a suitably trendy following, coming for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or just drinks, in the bar area.

With a huge range of brasserie-style dishes and great seafood available all day long, this comes as no surprise; it is especially popular for Sunday brunch - comfort food like chunky steak sandwiches or hamburgers with red onion marmalade.

The a la carte menu gets slightly grander, with the addition of dishes like grilled Dover sole or chateaubriand for two. There is also a joint on a trolley, which varies every evening but all day Sunday there is Aberdeen Angus beef with Yorkshire pudding.

Open daily, although reservations recommended Thursday to Saturday.