A Scarlet Dot

Scarlet Dot is the first Indian hâute cuisine restaurant to open in characterful Spitafields. Part of a modern complex of restaurants and posh shops behind the famous indoor market, it does much to challenge your idea of what an Indian restaurant looks like. For starters, it's as much as drinking den as a restaurant. Very masculine with its tropical woods, dark blinds and black marble floors and walls, the bar provides a seriously cool place to meet for lunch or after-work drinks. The adjoining restaurant is staffed by a talented team supporting five-star Indian chefs adept at whipping up contemporary dishes - the Indian breakfast is not to be missed. In summer, you can eat outside under an impressive glass and steel canopy. Scarlet's crowd is pretty diverse; lawyers and bankers during the day; locals, designers and artists at night. The name, incidentally, is a reference to the bindi.