Cosy London restaurants, from Smoking Goat to the French House

So, yes, London is rammed full of curative locations, ones that save us from bitter winds. And, quickly, a note for those hoping to find solace but who still crave glamour should seek out Carlotta (77, 78 Marylebone High Street, W1U, bigmammagroup.com), the Big Mamma Group’s least preposterous (and therefore best) restaurant, where the food is as central as the aesthetic. Here is a place for good bowls of pasta and cocktails and Lambrusco. In fact, if there is anywhere designed to cheer Londoners mottled by brown leaf blues, it is there. The cold has come. We must adapt.