Hand: Easy to overlook, but don't

It’s easy to overlook Hand: its red plastic primary school-style chairs don’t scream “must-try London restaurant” and the pastry counter in front of a mammoth barista machine plonks the vibe firmly in the café category.

Hand even calls itself a café and this East Village outlet does very good Square Mile coffee (they're the people behind 46b Espresso), yet it’s all a cunning (and faintly baffling) cover for the excellent kitchen out the back.

Hand serves up really good Greek food. Pungent Mediterranean-meets-north-African flavours are in abundance, bedecked with lashings of olive oil and oregano.

Warming pots of fragrant “Gigantes” bean and lentil stews, shakshuka-style eggs star alongside the aforementioned pastries – including filo rolls stuffed with spinach, feta and a fragrant hint of lemon (a nod to Greek favourite spanokopita) or sausage rolls (less Greek but still good) made with Hill & Szrok meat.