AlfrescoReviews Archive

  • Tweet Consider the food offering at most of London’s main attractions and it’s no wonder that we have an admittedly undeserved reputation for less than brilliant food.  However, by partnering...

    Tom’s Kitchen @ Somerset House, WC2

    Tweet Consider the food offering at most of London’s main attractions and it’s no wonder that we have an admittedly undeserved reputation for less than brilliant food.  However, by partnering...

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  • Tweet As the economy has boomed, the foodie world has largely become influenced by style over substance.  We’ve all been wowed by a ‘pithivier of this’, ‘foam of that’ and...

    The Avalon, SW12

    Tweet As the economy has boomed, the foodie world has largely become influenced by style over substance.  We’ve all been wowed by a ‘pithivier of this’, ‘foam of that’ and...

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  • Tweet You may have heard of a little village in Berkshire called Bray.  It’s home to a couple of restaurants called The Fat Duck and The Waterside Inn.  Apparently they’re...

    Boulters, SL6

    Tweet You may have heard of a little village in Berkshire called Bray.  It’s home to a couple of restaurants called The Fat Duck and The Waterside Inn.  Apparently they’re...

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  • Tweet You’re too old for the ‘let’s dress in ridiculous clothes and go out in Shoreditch’ scene, you don’t fit in with the young families in the ‘new & improved,...

    Del’Aziz, various locations

    Tweet You’re too old for the ‘let’s dress in ridiculous clothes and go out in Shoreditch’ scene, you don’t fit in with the young families in the ‘new & improved,...

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  • Tweet The sun was shining, people were smiling, cars were topless and the women may as well have been, and every inch of pavement within breathing distance of a pub...

    Momo, W1

    Tweet The sun was shining, people were smiling, cars were topless and the women may as well have been, and every inch of pavement within breathing distance of a pub...

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  • Tweet Inspired by the cupboard/room where the necessities of life are stored, The Modern Pantry is probably underselling itself a bit.  Unless you’re unfashionably rich, the average Londoner’s abode amounts...

    The Modern Pantry, EC1

    Tweet Inspired by the cupboard/room where the necessities of life are stored, The Modern Pantry is probably underselling itself a bit.  Unless you’re unfashionably rich, the average Londoner’s abode amounts...

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  • Tweet Like most of us in the days of our childhood, I was constantly being told off by my mother for playing with my food.  Dinner wasn’t supposed to be...

    Le Pont de la Tour, SE1

    Tweet Like most of us in the days of our childhood, I was constantly being told off by my mother for playing with my food.  Dinner wasn’t supposed to be...

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  • Tweet Picture the scene: I’m sitting at a table with five lovely ladies at a steakhouse and the waiter brings out 6 large steaks.  Each is of a different cut...

    High Timber, EC4

    Tweet Picture the scene: I’m sitting at a table with five lovely ladies at a steakhouse and the waiter brings out 6 large steaks.  Each is of a different cut...

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  • Tweet If there was ever a venue that was perfectly suited to the glitz and glamour of Kensington then surely it’s got to be Kensington Roof Gardens.  Owned by uber-rich...

    Babylon, W8

    Tweet If there was ever a venue that was perfectly suited to the glitz and glamour of Kensington then surely it’s got to be Kensington Roof Gardens.  Owned by uber-rich...

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  • Tweet The English are admired (or berated??) the world over for their resilience and composure in the face of some of the most ridiculous weather.  Give us just the merest...

    Grafton House, SW4

    Tweet The English are admired (or berated??) the world over for their resilience and composure in the face of some of the most ridiculous weather.  Give us just the merest...

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