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Restaurant Review – Il Pampero
Recently opened in The Hari Hotel, Il Pampero is a rare brilliant example of Italian fine dining in central London. Continue reading
Restaurant Review – La Dame de Pic
When I first started writing about restaurants, the whole concept of posting food photographs on Instagram irritated me beyond belief. I’d rant obstinately about the whole concept until the sloshed, fondled Wagyu cows came home. Most jobs, however, make it completely necessary to leave certain beliefs at the door. Hate it or love it, social … Continue reading
Restaurant Review – Madison
Have you ever been to a high-rise restaurant so bad, so incomprehensibly grim, that you’ve genuinely considered jumping from the top floor, if only to spite them? Continue reading
Restaurant Review – Kanada-Ya, Piccadilly
“Ramen,” somebody recently probed as I gushed adoringly about the food of Japan (again), “that’s just noodle soup, isn’t it?” Like a besieged tom cat ready to challenge the neighbours’ pit bull, my back arched instinctively and I cascaded into an explosive rant. Ramen is far more than just noodle soup. The exact origins or … Continue reading
Restaurant Review – The Gilbert Scott
In a similar vein to Marco Pierre White, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey – Marcus Wareing has become a TV chef personality whose equal parts loved and loathed. Over the past three years, the chef has perhaps become best known as the second toughest judge on MasterChef: The Professionals, but he’s also the name behind … Continue reading
Restaurant Review – Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been succumbed with an irrational fear of snails. It’s embarrassing. More common, less hilarious fears (spiders, snakes, rats, death) have never phased me, but something about those lettuce-munching bogies in crash helmets would always plague me with fear. As somebody who dedicates such a portion of … Continue reading
Restaurant Review – Yosma
Yosma is, possibly, London’s best Turkish restaurant south of Newington Green. Continue reading
