Nola is the York dinner you book when you want the room to have a pulse. Set inside an old chapel on Lendal, it brings Art Deco details, low lighting, booths and live jazz into a city where dinner can otherwise lean very polite.

The food takes its cues from Louisiana and New Orleans, with smaller plates designed for trying a few things across the table. The upstairs bar gives you somewhere to start before the music kicks in downstairs, making this a strong dinner-as-the-evening booking rather than somewhere everyone immediately leaves after dessert.