Pausing halfway across Waterloo Bridge the other day (en route, in fact, to a certain tequilatastic screening), I was struck by just how beautiful our city really is. It's understandably easy to get blinkered by pincer of the fiscally-anxious daily grind and booze-tinged weekends. But take a (windswept) moment on one of the more central bridges and all those worries are blown away.

Relishing in this aesthetic magnificence of the Thames and its historic views (and rose-tinting just enough of the choppy, chilly, grey reality), the new High Timber restaurant is perched right on its bank. A stroll down (or stumble up, if you're heading home) from St. Paul's and bang opposite the Globe, it's the brain-child (or, more likely, liver-and-stomach-child) of vineyard owners Gary and Kathy Jordan and Vivat Bacchus's Neleen Strauss. No wonder, then, that it is also a carnivorous oenophile's paradise.