Category: Restaurant reviews
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 …
London
We had another excellent meal at Hawksmoor last week (our original review is here and the follow up is here). The key is to go on a Monday when …
Fast food
Sometimes you really need a kebab. We wanted the best Turkish kebab London has to offer, so we trekked to the other side of Town to get one. We …
