Barbecue and BBQ restaurants in London

A North African sibling of Chinatown’s Palomar, The Barbary has the same counter seating but here arranged in a horseshoe around a central grill where the flames guarantee sealed-in flavour, though your clothes may smell of charred protein the next morning. A blackened curl of octopus tentacle, smoky without, meltingly soft within and served atop coriander-scattered chickpeas is the star turn, though the menu is short enough that two people could eat their way through most of it, from nibbles of falafel and dolma to chicken shawarma, salmon dukkah and Jaffa-style cauliflower. Excellent cocktails, too.