Hampstead can be a bit of a culinary wasteland, and certainly not somewhere you’d expect to find an experimental Asian seafood restaurant painted electric blue. At least, not a good one. It is despite this dubious background then that Goldfish succeeds in not only serving up tasty modern Chinese food, but food that is tasty when measured by any yardstick. Dishes like wasabi prawns, Dover sole with chilli and black bean sauce and sea bass with ginger and spring onions are the ying to the interior’s yang of oriental artefacts and feng shui water features. Great for dates, and even better for when your parents are picking up the tab.

Price: £50pp. 82 Hampstead High Street, NW3 1RE. Tel: 020 7794 6666