The Ivy restaurant in London (West Street, WC2) is one of the most notable landmarks of the capital’s cuisine. It’s not that the food is a...
Read MoreThe most marvellous restaurant in London right now might well be The Barbary in Covent Garden; to be precise, in Neal’s Yard, perhaps the most s...
Read MoreFOOD: If this is Barbarism then I’ll have seconds, please
I don’t know how many times I’ve eaten at L’Artiste Muscle but every time my feeling is that it was too long ago. If one were compi...
Read MoreFOOD: A part of Paris in the heart of London
This is a London food story of the big and the small, the high and the shy, a tale of multi-storey and one-storey. Let’s start at the top…...
Read MoreFOOD: Compare & contrast – Sushisamba in the City and Sunday in Islington
A crosstown journey, from Spitalfields to Soho – pretty easy by tube, could be an hour in a cab. First stop, pretty close to Liverpool Street s...
Read MoreFOOD: Danger food? – the garlic’s wild, the kidneys devilled
It is almost 20 years since Pharmacy restaurant opened on Notting Hill Gate. It was cooler than a freezer-fresh martini; the brainchild of Damien Hirs...
Read MoreFOOD: Getting the chemistry right – from Vauxhall to (Little) Venice
Something strikes you as you walk into Social Eating House. It’s a curtain, which is hanging just beyond the door. After that, things can only ...
Read MoreFOOD: Not entranced by the entrance but otherwise awesome
Where we live in London, you can always go for a walk if you’re feeling a bit down on or around Upper Street. It’s vibrant, cheery; it...
Read MoreFOOD: Ordering at Oldroyd – small but perfectly formed
Chiltern Firehouse opened as a restaurant in 2013, just 124 years after it opened as the Marylebone Fire Station. Obviously, in its original form, it ...
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