Metrogusto Official Site 13 Theberton St Islington N1 0QY 020 7226 9400 £40pp 3 courses no wine In the sweltering height of the April heat, I broke the unspoken code of tap water conduct and plonked for a bottle of sparkling. It was such a…
Tayyabs official site 83-89 Fieldgate St. E1 1JU 020 7247 6400 £15pp, BYO (!) I did it, I finally did it. I went to Tayyabs for the very first time and you already know what my response is going to be like, in fact, you’ve…
I’m going to Cafe Strudel for a charity dinner on the 25th June 2009 and I’m inviting everyone to join me there! Paula – who is doing the Ultimate Wine Wisdom column for my newsletter – is going to trek to Machu Pichu for Classic…
This is the first update to my totally subjective London Restaurant Must Go list launched last month. Think of this as LondonEater’s very own all time premier league of super duper whooper deliciousness rankings meter ultimo list to defeat all lists that were ever created,…
Dinings £40pp 22 Harcourt St W1H 4 020 7723 0666 To this day, I still think the best miso cod are the ones made in the Nobu Kitchen, particularly the Berkeley branch. Ex-Nobu Chef Tomonari Chiba has left the establishment to set up his own…
Sam’s Brasserie Official Site 11 Barley Mow Passage W4 4PH 020 8987 0555 £35pp ala carte ; £17pp set – 3 courses. I have never been to Chiswick before. Some say it’s a budget version of the Kensington Boroughs – all the creature comforts sans…
High Timber Official Site 8 High Timber Street EC4V 3PA 020 7248 1777 £40pp plus wine I love to wine and dine. However, my shrinking wardrobe and bank balance doesn’t always permit my indulgences on a more frequent basis. While surfing the luminaries of foodie-interwebs,…
There is a whole street of Vietnamese restaurants in Shoreditch, otherwise affectionately as ‘The Pho Mile’. My knowledge of the London Vietnamese food scene is murky at best, but I was pushed by my Vietnamese colleague – who frequents for the spicy squid – to give this a try.
How do I describe the Beigel Bake? A free standing cafe, perhaps a takeaway cafe or maybe it’s just a bakery that sells hot cakes, bagels and sandwiches of all kinds. Here’s me, West London Boy, spending some quality time with the East and getting…
The Fox and Anchor Official Site 115 Charterhouse Square EC1M 6AA 020 7250 1300 £20 pp of proper grub The smell of eggs and bacon fill the air as I inch closer to my lunch destination. Stumbling clumsily into the pub, The light from outside…
Terroirs, 5 William IV Street, London, WC2N 4DW £30pp Official site Left, no. Right, not there either, perhaps straight on.. hm. As you can probably tell, I’m a little lost. I’m dreaming about a spread of gorgeous food & wine but we’re not quite there yet. My…
Wet fish cafe Offical site 242 West End Lane NW6 1LG 020 7443 9222 Food £10 Coffee £2.50 “Fell in love with the idea of transforming a rundown site into a London cafe with soul and character” – Andre, A Wet Fish Tale Everything seems…
