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Cheese and Biscuits
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...
07.08.2023
Firstly, I have a confession to make. Many years ago I was very kindly treated to lunch at the River Café in Hammersmith, and I didn't like ...
25.07.2023
There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of Elephant and Castle, and I am singularl...
18.07.2023
Part of the vast, shiny new 180 Strand development, AngloThai at Outcrop is an entirely outside - albeit thankfully mainly covered - restaur...
10.07.2023
I generally try and avoid focusing too much on service on invited meals. If the front of house know you're in to review they usually try and...
27.06.2023
I don't know whether it's by design or sheer accident that Bossa, a brand new Brazilian restaurant from chef Alberto Landgraf, has landed ri...
21.06.2023
Knowing we would be having dinner at Evernight I thought aperitifs at Homeboy Battersea, just around the corner in the same building, would ...
08.06.2023
A stroll along the High Street in Deal reveals a town very much at the forefront of the wider Kentish food revolution. There seem to be more...
26.05.2023
Thank the lord for the lengthening days, for lifting the spirits and lightening the mood and - most importantly from my point of view - dram...
27.04.2023
As much as I complained on these pages that all the exciting new restaurants were opening up not handily close to where I live in SW11, but ...
13.04.2023
In a town that already plays host to wonderful places like Wreckfish and Manifest , you'd think that the opening of another reasonably-pric...
12.04.2023
Churton is not a place you're supposed to have heard of, so don't feel bad if you haven't. Unlike its larger, and lets face it more attracti...
10.04.2023
Looking over the confidently international menu at Nessa the other evening, it occurred to me that it's been a while since I've had a moan a...
03.04.2023
The first time I went to the London Shell Co., I hated it. This was nothing to do with the food, and everything to do with my aversion to an...
31.03.2023
Mumbling and grumbling during my journey to Dalston the other night, as the 38 bus did an average speed of just less than walking pace all t...
27.03.2023
It's a strange part of town, is St James. Essentially a lesser-known southern extension of Mayfair, it's barely a half mile square and yet c...
22.03.2023
One of the best things about being in San Diego twice a year (apart from the zoo... and seeing the family of course) is its proximity to the...
20.03.2023
"We'll need your table back in an hour and a half, is that OK?" Well, I suppose it'll have to be, but it would have been nice to have been ...
09.03.2023
There was an opinion that did the rounds a few years ago, that any restaurant critic needs to have spent at least some time in a professiona...
28.02.2023
One of the best things about being a food blogger in London, and especially as one that has been going as bloody long as I have, is that you...
23.02.2023
While I think the Top 50 Gastropub list is largely great, every year when it's announced there is the same grumbling about how some of the n...
30.01.2023
If you've been to Gloria, or Circo Popular, or Ave Mario, you'll know the drill by now. Big Mamma group restaurants are ludicrous, overblown...
26.01.2023
Shall we get the inevitable comparisons out of the way first? Yes, there's more than a little influence from the Hart Bros' Barrafina group ...
01.01.2023
Some restaurants just make it all look so easy. From the moment you walk into the room to the moment you pay up and leave, everything about ...
31.12.2022
Since the madness of the Covid Times, you may have noticed that the rate of posting on this blog has slowed down a bit. Where I used to try ...
28.12.2022
Such is the cyclical nature of these things, trends in food or clothing or plenty of other areas besides will, given long enough, find thems...
16.12.2022
It makes perfect sense that with London commercial property rents sky-high, wiley restaurateurs should look further afield and towards quirk...