The current iteration of Lockhart is, by now, a well-known purveyor of Southern American cooking in London. It is located in what could be a sort of mini food quarter with Donostia & Vinoteca nearby, in Seymour Place. I never went to the original Lockhart…
Happy Chinese New Year all! Hopefully you ate lots to usher in the galloping horse… and you know 2014 is going to be a great year. So I had decided to kick-start my new year with the very well-received A Wong. I can’t believe it took…
3rd May 2016 UPDATE: Revisited in 2016 for the Extended Taster Menu. Worth a read. Review here. OK I’m back. Kind of. Service is resumed so to speak. You’ve been keeping well I hope. It’s been a while I know, I’m still eating out but…
All signs indicate that we are about to witness the second emergence of ramen in London; But this time, perhaps with less national franchise designs, and more of a focused effort on being small scale, independent, an identity differentiated by quality recipes. You already know…
Happy new year! So how are we all finding 2013 so far? All good I hope, and I also hope you made the most to completely over do it over the holiday period. In the Leong household, we opted out of the usual cote de…
It gives me great pleasure to write about my favourite Japanese restaurant in London, recently relaunched and relocated to Bayswater and renamed …The Shiori! Owned & operated by Chef Takagi-san and his wife Hitomi-san, this entire labour of love has finally shaken off previous trappings…
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…
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…
I decided to revisit Jose Pizarro’s flagship restaurant which I still believe was one of the best openings last year, along with its sister sherry Bar Jose just a few doors down in Bermondsey Street. The massive weekend queues appear to have completely died down…
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…
A few weeks after it opened, Bubbledogs – the hotdogs & champagne bar – continues to entertain massive queues to rival the likes of Meatwagon’s restaurants. I went there a couple of weeks ago and while I think the whole setup is decent and understand…
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…
