What a gem of a restaurant! Went there twice in December and I love the place. Great ingredients, respectfully combined for a fantastic result. It’s a few weeks since I was there but I can still remember the Chicken and Ham pie, simply superb. The menu is small and unpretentious featuring classic English food (nice [...]
Since leaving the Connaught I’ve been excited about Angela Hartnett’s return to the kitchen. Murano is a nice looking restaurant, tucked away in mayfair the heart of hedgefundland. The food was mostly very good, a highlight being some wonderful pheasent ravioli. Everything was going really well till after the main course when the service just [...]
I’ve been to Princi twice in a week, usually a good sign – but in this case just to make sure it’s was as good as I remembered. For many years, each time I go to Italy and have lunch in a little cafe that has pastries, sandwiches, pasta of the day etc I’ve thought [...]
It’s difficult not to like Nobu, although for choice I think the Nobu in Las Vegas is far better value, especially given the basket case state of the US dollar right now. On my most recent trip we let the waiter order for our table of 8. I must commend him on his choice, although [...]
Mangal in Arcola Street in Dalston, remains one of my favourite restaurants in London. It’s a small turkish bbq restaurant, that is constantly jammed. The quality of the meat is superb and is served with a nice salad – it’s what Atkins must have been dreaming about. The service is fast, which means you don’t [...]
In the last couple of months I’ve been here 5 times, I can’t remember going back to a restaurant as frequently. In the first month, the food was generally excellent (although I did have one bad experience - part of the growing pains of a restaurant). In any event, new restaurants can have their off [...]
As a regular visitor to borough market I’ve compiled a list of my favourite places within the market (if I haven’t named them, I hope that describing their produce will help) Konditor & Cook – Amazing cakes Booth – His stand next to chorizo man (see below), provides a tremendous array of fantastic fruit and [...]
I’m reading an interesting book at the moment called The Black Swan. The author makes a great point, ‘the next killing in the restaurant industry needs to be an idea that is not easily conceived of’. Now, while the book is not related to the restaurant industry – the idea that by choosing an unusual [...]
In a bid to squeeze that extra bit of revenue out of his flagship restaurant in Royal Hospital Road, the Gordon Ramsay group are offering a monthly cookery school. The budding chefs arrive at 9am and learn how to prepare the meal while the chefs guests arrive at 12.30 to eat. I turned up at [...]