UPDATE – JAN 2013. *Ben Spalding & Nathan Holmes have left John Salt. Neil Rankin now runs the kitchen over there.* So after last week’s blockbuster dinner at John Salt, I wanted to return and try Ben Spalding’s other offerings from his current residency at…
UPDATE – JAN 2013. *Ben Spalding has left John Salt. Neil Rankin now runs the kitchen over there.* It was only April when Ben Spalding confirmed his inevitable departure from Roganic, the long term pop-up, where he solidified his reputation as a next gen force…
About 7 years ago, I lived directly above what is now Eric and Didier Garnier’s eponymous French brasserie. Back in those days, a Spanish restaurant occupied that space and I remembered it being a dark, old and musty kind of decor serving food that is…
It’s not the best burger in London, not gourmet or blockbuster, but it is good. Especially with their house bearnaise. This London pop-up (so I’ve heard on Monocle Radio) comes by way of long time Icelandic burger-joint owner Tommi Tómasson who has ported it from…
It wasn’t because I was up 40 floors of glass and metal, rather I was quivering at the sheer breakneck speed with which the lift hurled up to the heavens. Watching the marvellous financial heartbeat of Europe seemingly shrink under my feet was completely vertigo…
I went to this restaurant nearly two months ago, it had been so long ago now, that even the menus have completely changed on their official website. Situated in St John’s Wood, One Blenheim Terrace is local for me – it’s 10 minutes on the…
2016 UPDATE: My review of the new Pitt Cue co in Devonshire Square is here. Yay, I finally ate at Pitt Cue. It is impossible for you to not have heard about this enormously successful BBQ sensation. It has certainly been the most talked about…
After taking time out to launch his immaculately designed Polpo cookbook, Russell Norman (and Richard Beatty) are back to open the third arm of Polpo, the first outside of Soho and their sixth opening overall. I went along to a preview last Friday – I…
For my birthday this year, I was looking to drink something a little special and so BBR became an obvious choice for it carries a list of classy old world (and very collectible) wine labels but with modest mark-ups. Prices track closely to the market…
Today I will recount the Legend of Young Turks & The Clove Club. The story of how a group of gifted palate thrillers had joined forces in their relative youth to dazzle the masses. There is already so much written about their food, their previous…
I am indebted to Josh Katz for sending me to this (relatively) new Middle Eastern diner opened by ex-Ottolenghi/Nopi chefs. Josh is now officially the former head chef at the excellent Made in Camden. While I’m a little saddened that I can no longer eat…
I remember putting this cosy and dainty cafe on my list after reading LF’s detailed report nearly two years ago. It’s stayed there ever since as I can never seem to find time to visit anywhere just for cake. The owner Masayuki Hara is Japanese,…
