The best bbq in London
14 places
Big Brother Hot Pot
££One of London's few double buffets - all-you-can-eat hot pot and all-you-can-eat grilled meat at the same table, on a Mongolian rather than Sichuan base.
Chung'dam
££££Named for Seoul's Cheongdam-dong and priced accordingly - the three-tiered pyeonbaek steam box of prawns, mussels and brisket is the thing to order.
Hon's BBQ
£££Man Hon Luk smokes Texan barbecue through Chinese and Asian seasoning, canalside in Hackney Wick in the room Silo used to occupy.
Hotto Potto
££A beef tallow broth, a barbecue list alongside the pot, and a menu that prints a recommended cooking time against each ingredient - the single most useful thing a beginner can be handed.
Publishes a GBP 20 solo hot pot set - broth, meat, vegetables and rice or noodles for one, which almost nowhere else offers. Dedicated halal menu. Karaoke rooms downstairs.
Jin Go Gae
£££Real charcoal rather than gas, which is why it is the purist's choice in a town full of Korean grills.
K-Town BBQ
££London's first all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue - industrial room, fixed price, and built for a table that intends to stay a while.
Buffet format at a fixed price. Service charge is added on top.
Korean Grill Kensington
£££Tabletop grills at every table on the corner of Courtfield Road - it sits under the Millennium Gloucester but has its own entrance and none of the hotel-restaurant feel.
Mailinda
££Old Beijing copper pot and charcoal skewers in the same sitting, plus chive boxes and guo bao rou - a neighbourhood canteen for the Isle of Dogs rather than a destination.
Muyang Hot Pot & BBQ
££One pot per person rather than one for the table, which is the whole point if you want your own broth. Hand-made fish balls, black fungus, quail eggs, rice cake, and the offal end for those who want it.
Claims to be the first restaurant in London to serve individual mini hot pots.
Niu Hot Pot
££Chaoshan beef, which means the broth stays out of the way and the menu is sorted by cut - sirloin, short rib, rump, omasum, ox aorta, hand-made beef balls. Charcoal skewers and a private karaoke room alongside.
Eight soup bases including a congee base served with two live crabs. A halal section on the menu.
Olle
£££Table grills in the middle of Soho, so the New Malden format without the forty-minute train.
Pochawa Grill
£££A neon-pink Korean pub format dropped into Chinatown - you grill at the table and the room is built for a night rather than a meal.
Sorabol
£££Twenty years on New Malden high street, where the owner will still tell you the right ratio of lettuce, garlic, leek and kimchi to build a wrap.
Super Three
££All-you-can-eat Sichuan hot pot on a spicy butter base with a Korean charcoal grill on the same table, so a group that cannot agree does not have to.
One of two long-standing hot pot restaurants a few doors apart on East India Dock Road; Han Restaurant is the other.