WestEndReviews Archive

  • Tweet If I was going to put my money on London’s next big restaurant trend, it would have to be Vietnamese.   The scene has been bubbling away for a while,...

    Pho, Various Locations

    Tweet If I was going to put my money on London’s next big restaurant trend, it would have to be Vietnamese.   The scene has been bubbling away for a while,...

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  • Tweet Meat is big business at the moment, especially as so many of us increasingly turn away from the modest portions of fine dining establishments to restaurants where you leave...

    Black and Blue, W1

    Tweet Meat is big business at the moment, especially as so many of us increasingly turn away from the modest portions of fine dining establishments to restaurants where you leave...

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  • Tweet Gordon Ramsay may now be more (in)famous for his out-of-kitchen antics than the dazzling cooking skills that earned him his place in the spotlight, but there’s no doubting Gordon’s...

    Petrus, SW1

    Tweet Gordon Ramsay may now be more (in)famous for his out-of-kitchen antics than the dazzling cooking skills that earned him his place in the spotlight, but there’s no doubting Gordon’s...

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  • Tweet Whilst the Indian restaurant scene has transformed beyond recognition in recent years to provide a genuinely more authentic and innovative style of cuisine, there has also been a simultaneous...

    Chor Bizarre, W1

    Tweet Whilst the Indian restaurant scene has transformed beyond recognition in recent years to provide a genuinely more authentic and innovative style of cuisine, there has also been a simultaneous...

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  • Tweet London has its fair share of style-led restaurants, but 2010 saw nowhere more eye-catching than Kyashii; perhaps it’s location opposite Stringfellows inspired the owners of Kyashii to create a...

    Kyashii, W1

    Tweet London has its fair share of style-led restaurants, but 2010 saw nowhere more eye-catching than Kyashii; perhaps it’s location opposite Stringfellows inspired the owners of Kyashii to create a...

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  • Tweet Opened by legendary restaurateur Alan Yau in 2001, the original Hakkasan has gone on to be one of the most fashionable and successful restaurant brands in the world.  However,...

    Hakkasan Mayfair, W1

    Tweet Opened by legendary restaurateur Alan Yau in 2001, the original Hakkasan has gone on to be one of the most fashionable and successful restaurant brands in the world.  However,...

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  • Tweet Whilst a dining experience is ultimately about food, restaurateurs often overlook the fact that the service and hospitality side of things can be the making or breaking of a...

    Tempo, W1

    Tweet Whilst a dining experience is ultimately about food, restaurateurs often overlook the fact that the service and hospitality side of things can be the making or breaking of a...

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  • Tweet if computers didn’t have a strong enough grip on our lives already, it appears that they want to control of our dining experience too.  inamo places a computer at...

    inamo St James, W1

    Tweet if computers didn’t have a strong enough grip on our lives already, it appears that they want to control of our dining experience too.  inamo places a computer at...

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  • Tweet Say the term ‘French restaurant’ and most of us conjure images of fine-dining establishments with weird and wonderful menus that are best suited to special occasions.  However, in Les...

    Les Deux Salons, WC2

    Tweet Say the term ‘French restaurant’ and most of us conjure images of fine-dining establishments with weird and wonderful menus that are best suited to special occasions.  However, in Les...

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  • Tweet With its wall to wall line up of Asian restaurants, windows filled with luminous red hanging ducks and menus written in languages that I could only guess at, Chinatown...

    Leong’s Legends, W1 & W2

    Tweet With its wall to wall line up of Asian restaurants, windows filled with luminous red hanging ducks and menus written in languages that I could only guess at, Chinatown...

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