LONDON LAUGH INN

Melbourne somm Charlie Mellor has brought a dash of Australian wine-bar style to London. The Laughing Heart, his late-night wine bar, restaurant and bottle shop in East London, was unashamedly inspired by the likes of 10 William St, Embla and Ester. Named for a Charles Bukowski poem, it has a 300-deep organic and biodynamic wine list and a menu that spans “kitsch French, regional Italian, and pared-back Asian” dishes, says Mellor. Rock oysters with a natural-wine granita to start, followed by cod roe with furikake and crudités, and Dexter beef rib and Serragghia capers? Now you’re laughin’. thelaughingheartlondon.com