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23.12.2024
On the shortest day of the year, in the middle of the gloomiest and wettest of England's gloom and wet, I thought it might be fun to review ...
17.12.2024
Although my useless photos hardly do it justice (let's just get that out of the way from the start), Crispin at Studio Voltaire is a lovely ...
22.11.2024
To a visitor from lands afar (me) who sees this part of the world in little two-week periods twice a year, Jeune & Jolie feels like it did a...
05.11.2024
I don't usually like to do invited reviews back-to-back, so this was supposed to be a post about a lovely Catalonian restaurant called El Mo...
01.11.2024
It's a funny old part of town is Earl's Court. Not quite Kensington, not quite Chelsea, not many reasons to visit (certainly not since the c...
30.10.2024
As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the world that are somewhat better-represented...
25.10.2024
Most visitors to the Lamb Inn will approach from the car park and be greeted with the sight pictured above - an achingly cute thatched count...
22.10.2024
London has never been the kind of place where you can just pick a restaurant at random and have at least a decent dinner. There are too many...
12.10.2024
I often like to look up the situation of restaurants I'm heading out to on Google Streetview, just so I know what to expect when I get off t...
07.10.2024
Some restaurants just make it look so easy, don't they? The menu at Camille is so enticing, with unusual eye-catching ingredients prepared i...
01.10.2024
As I have surely said on this blog plenty of times over the years, I will never go to any holiday or short trip without at least one meal bo...
16.09.2024
Hainan is an island off the south coast of China about the size of Vancouver Island - that makes it bigger than Sicily and Sardinia and twic...
10.09.2024
There are so many different types of restaurant, so much variety in the ways and manner and styles that we eat out, that sometimes it's amaz...
04.09.2024
There are a few pubs in London notable for their hosting of fledgling food businesses, giving talented but cash-strapped teams a chance to t...
31.08.2024
A large menu is rarely a good sign, and I have to admit a part of my heart sank when I sat down at the Blind Bull and counted 12 items in th...
12.08.2024
In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought experiment. If there was no such separati...
24.07.2024
For someone who spends an unhealthy amount of time thinking about and reading about restaurants, I consider it a personal failing that I did...
13.07.2024
Dave Carter, a big friendly giant of a man with a completely impenetrable Barbadian accent, began his London restaurant journey at Smokestak...
09.07.2024
The first thing we were given to eat at 64 Goodge Street was a little plate of truffle-cream gougères topped with shaved Comté. These turned...
30.06.2024
For better or worse, every moment spent eating out in London is an education, and on a warm Tuesday evening last week I went to Knightsbridg...
13.06.2024
Since the closure of Le Gavroche, Pied à Terre is now the London restaurant which has held at least one Michelin star for the longest time. ...
30.05.2024
This isn't going to be a very long post because, well, it wasn't a very long lunch. Sometimes you want to spend all day cooing over a tastin...
22.05.2024
Continuing a recent theme , here comes along another example of excellent restaurant pedigree producing a fantastic place to eat. The Buxton...
21.05.2024
As soon as the sun comes out on a bank holiday, it feels like half of London heads down to the south coast, and Brighton in particular. And ...
15.05.2024
There are few things more important in the success of a restaurant than pedigree. If you are able to launch one good restaurant, you're more...
07.05.2024
As any self-respecting 2024 London restaurant-goer knows, the trend in Asian cuisine is towards regional specification. You're not just Thai...
27.04.2024
Despite Camberwell's increasing reputation for all kinds (and all budgets) of great food, it still seemed unlikely that this bare-bones pub,...
12.04.2024
There are lots of good Chinese restaurants in the Holborn/Bloomsbury area of London. Most seem to have popped up in the last decade or so, I...
05.03.2024
When I was first out of university, trying to decide what to do with my life, and with no long term plan other than the fact I knew - eventu...
22.02.2024
Beautiful 15th century Lambeth Palace is a strange London landmark - widely recognisable, with a stately position Thames-side and passed by ...
07.02.2024
Many moons ago I made a short-lived attempt to do some shorter-form reviews of sandwich shops, street food joints, delis and the like, place...
06.02.2024
Another week, another fantastic new restaurant in Camberwell. I try not to moan too much on this site about the fact that certain areas of t...
18.01.2024
Everywhere you look the cost of living crisis bites, and few areas is that more evident than the restaurant industry. If you're a regular an...
12.12.2023
I think the Dew Drop Inn must exist, because I have photographic proof I was there on Saturday afternoon, sheltering from the wind and rain ...
29.11.2023
Basil Fawlty: Are you dining here tonight, here in this unfashionable dump? Mr. Johnson: I wasn't planning to. Basil Fawlty: No, not ...
23.11.2023
Having enjoyed the original Peckham Cellars very much, I eagerly jumped on a very kind invitation to their new Camberwell offshoot. Little ...
16.11.2023
There's no avoiding the fact, and there's no point dancing around it. There's no need for lengthy, thoughtful or measured arguments; no sens...
07.11.2023
More often than not, any given world-class gastropub is a good journey away from London. There are exceptions, of course - the Drapers Arms,...
13.10.2023
Great restaurants often involve a great journey, and the journey to Crocadon, for everyone involved, staff and guests, is greater than most....
18.08.2023
It's a pleasant novelty to, for once, not be opening a post about an excellent neighbourhood restaurant without a resigned grump about the l...