I’ve long held that fast food can be a serious gastronomic experience. Yet, as my previous ramen experience had been little more than Bachelor’s Super Noodles as a spotty youth, I was quite unprepared for the pulsing brilliance of Tonkatsu Ramen at Tsuru Sushi Bishopsgate. Consider my mind blown and a new avenue of pleasure [...]
Hotel restaurants have a bit of a bad reputation in England. Food at The Grill in London’s Montcalm Hotel is so totally brilliant it not only shows they can be great for guests but also deeply desirable destinations for native noshers. Editor Daniel and I ate an outstanding meal at the restaurant and you should [...]
Things have been unusually positive and free from torrents of florid invective on this site recently. Since most readers I have met claim to prefer articles in which I am rude I’m a tad discomposed to report this is going to be another eulogistic one. Those who prefer ungracious bluntness will be saddened to learn [...]
I think this organ demonstrates my dedication to the pursuit of ludicrously enjoyable experiences. Fortunately, my erratic stagger through life has presented an obscene number of these and so I feel confident in my ability to handle extreme gratification. However, our Tuesday dinner at the new branch of Hawksmoor was so pleasurable that even my [...]
Tuesdays are rarely thought of as the most lark and jape-filled days, yet this Tuesday I had a royal time quite unlike any other Tuesday in recent memory. Not only was there excellent food and wine but greater enjoyment value was provided by seeing two friends who are firmly established at a far more grown-up [...]
Meat. Let us face it: if, when your thoughts turn to that most basic and enjoyable of corporeal requirements, eating, meat does not enter your thoughts in some major way you probably have some serious problems and need re-evaluate your life in a fundamental manner. The joys of eating meat are without number, and it [...]
As far as fashionable crazes go Elitistreview is generally so far behind that it is ahead; this must explain our passion for modish banh mi (Vietnamese baguettes). When noshing at the other day its owner, David Parkin, suggested we head out to Denmark Hill to give Café Bay, sister restaurant, a try. As I had [...]
Since the much-lamented demise of I’ve been searching for an inspiring purveyor of Turkish comestibles. I was far from rude enough about it in my review. Could Hazev (one dock along from Canary Wharf) provide Turkish titillation? That so many of the decent, up-standing, hard-working bankers, lawyers and associated professionals from the area could drag [...]
Long-time readers will know that here at Elitistreview we are well up with super-fashionable sandwich action and so get more than a cheap thrill from a big mouthful of Vietnamese baguettes, aka banh mi. Yesterday we made the journey into the City of London and tried two hotly-tipped banh mi establishments – they made our [...]
For us, and others yearning for lewd meat action, Argentine steakhouse A La Cruz will satisfy your needs with extreme gustatory titillation. During our two hours there they pleasured us immensely, leaving us completely engorged and our lust sated. Our juices were flowing even before we had penetrated the entrance due to the seductive, sweet, [...]
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