Enter the Demon Chef: Bo London
"Chinese chef, Alvin Leung, is something of a legend in Asian gastronomic circles, an avant garde performer who stands alone in terms of creative vision and culinary style."
View ArticleBRGR.Co
BRGR.Co. A strange, vowel-less beast that’s popped up on Wardour Street, part of the renaissance of Soho restaurants and the new breed of burger purveyors who’ve set up shop to make the most of...
View ArticleThe Peak of Peruvian Cuisine: Lima
"Since opening in trendy Fitzrovia just eight months ago, Peruvian restaurant Lima has already been voted ‘One to Watch’ at the National Restaurant Awards and, perhaps more importantly, has received...
View ArticleAn Evening at The Goring
"If you visit the restrooms at the Goring Hotel you might be forgiven for thinking you’ve taken a step back in time to a Victorian gallery of smut. Adorning the walls are a selection of Reubenesque...
View ArticleHélène Darroze at The Connaught
I first read about The Connaught at an extremely impressionable age. I was too young –it left an indelible, immovable mark on my consciousness. I was fourteen years old, but I remember the sequence of...
View ArticleThe Palm: Mad Men’s London
"Over the past five years, London’s steakhouse scene has become a well bred beast and the steak spectrum for meat eaters in the capital is now broad and multifaceted..."
View ArticleLangan’s Brasserie: The Institution
"As we settle into our seats with their fraying edges, and frail wooden armrests, we hear a commotion at the table behind us. Without proper warning a man suddenly falls backwards off his chair and...
View ArticleThe Mad Hatter’s Afternoon Tea
The attention to detail is exceptional and intriguing; with napkins wrapped in riddles, sugar cubes contained within a whimsical ballerina musical jewellery box which plays “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”...
View ArticleNewman Street Tavern
Fitzrovia – bohemian hub of the early 20th century, home to literary and artistic bon vivants who would frequent the area's many watering holes...
View ArticleImli Street: The Indian Job
It’s late on Wednesday when the phone goes. It’s Foodie Ed. The conversation goes something like this: “Is that you Richie? Course it is. Listen, I’ve got a job for you. See I need someone solid,...
View ArticleSweet Dreams: Ametsa with Arzak Instruction
"Thousands of spice-filled test tubes hang precariously above my head like some frantic experiment to preserve the sands of time."
View ArticleEstablished Splendour: Wiltons
"I am rather surprised, and in truth ever-so-slightly disappointed when I arrived at Wiltons to be informed that I am not required to wear a tie."
View ArticleThe Multi-Headed Meat Hydra
"As a man whose mouth has been known to water in a farmyard, the idea that there would be culinary fireworks involving the fatted calf, and plenty more besides, was a heavenly one."
View ArticleA Cucumber Stiletto at STK
"The décor is, to put it mildly, challenging for two gentlemen such as ourselves. There is a great deal of purple..."
View ArticleAll’s Shipshape at Bonnie Gull
"I was to meet with chief mate, The Foodie Ed. and take on board a cargo of the finest seafood available this side of the Mariana Trench."
View ArticleNigel Mendham: A Good Egg
Everything about the Thirty Six restaurant at Dukes hotel feels a little bit hidden. From the encased courtyard that lies off of St James's Street where you'll find the entrance to the hotel, to the...
View ArticleThe Pearl Dram Whisky and Oyster Bar
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society celebrates its 30th anniversary and new oyster season with a pop-up whisky and oyster bar in London… The start of Britain’s native oyster season on Sunday 1st September...
View ArticleLangan’s Brasserie: The Institution
"As we settle into our seats with their fraying edges, and frail wooden armrests, we hear a commotion at the table behind us. Without proper warning a man suddenly falls backwards off his chair and...
View ArticlePilgrim’s Progress
Veteran American actor, comedian and director Mel Brooks reportedly stated “sex is like pizza, even when it's bad, it's good” and I am inclined to sort-of agree, although the focus of my attentions in...
View ArticleObika: Magnifico Mozzarella
Estella visits the latest outpost of the Obika mozzarella empire on Charlotte Street, where she samples the finest white stuff known to mankind...
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