Category: London
London
We are off to Hawksmoor (reviews here and here, and some pictures here and here) for the umpty-third time this year. Our first trip was back in February when …
London
Poor old Daniel, actually having to trek across town to get to work. The advantage of this is that he is right near a branch of Wahaca, a fun …
Fast food
At the end of last month we visited a totally boring purveyor of tedium called Viet Baguette. A comment on a blog was our only hint that a identically …
Fast food
Some people have a good idea and then fail to have the successive good ideas that make the first one work. This is very much the case at Viet …
London
It has been years since I last went to Saint John; I always loved dining on novelty bits of animal expertly prepared. Our return last night showed there was …
London
My chums Edward Tully and Peter Palmer (who are also both ex-captains of the Oxford blind tasting team, Peter one year before me and Edward one year after) decided …
London
Since my first review of Comptoir Gascon I’ve been twice more: it was chortle-rific both times. From the standard menu I can heartily recommend the duck rillettes as a …
London
Dining in Farringdon generally means meat. Comptoir Gascon, the bistro associated with London’s best foie gras joint Club Gascon, will serve up enough duck and pork to fill even …
London
Lunch cannot always be a three-hour booze-fuelled frenzy of food, alas. However, just because you have to be quick does not mean you should skimp on quality. For a …
London
Nahm received some mixed reviews when it opened, but it is also Europe’s only Thai restaurant with a Michelin star. Our lunchtime visit showed us it was worth that …