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  • Tweet Centuries of mastering the art of perfectly cooking large slabs of meat, producing the crispest and fluffiest roast potatoes and smuggling a few suspicious looking greens into the mix...

    Roast, SE1

    Tweet Centuries of mastering the art of perfectly cooking large slabs of meat, producing the crispest and fluffiest roast potatoes and smuggling a few suspicious looking greens into the mix...

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  • Tweet Having launched to widespread critical acclaim back in 2005, Bedford & Strand has managed the enviable trick of keeping a low-profile whilst still remaining popular amongst those in the...

    Bedford & Strand, WC2

    Tweet Having launched to widespread critical acclaim back in 2005, Bedford & Strand has managed the enviable trick of keeping a low-profile whilst still remaining popular amongst those in the...

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  • Tweet Despite an apparent recession, one of the highlights of London’s hospitality scene in 2011 has been the re-emergence of the luxury hotel.  Whether it’s celebrity favourite, The W Hotel,...

    The Northall, WC2

    Tweet Despite an apparent recession, one of the highlights of London’s hospitality scene in 2011 has been the re-emergence of the luxury hotel.  Whether it’s celebrity favourite, The W Hotel,...

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  • Tweet Take a look at the Laughing Gravy’s website and the blurb suggests that it is ‘London’s best kept secret’. Expecting this to be a euphemism for ‘generally empty’, I...

    Laughing Gravy, SE1

    Tweet Take a look at the Laughing Gravy’s website and the blurb suggests that it is ‘London’s best kept secret’. Expecting this to be a euphemism for ‘generally empty’, I...

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  • Tweet With its inglenook fireplaces, crooked floors, half-timbered frontage and cobbled courtyard, this romantic Elizabethan coaching inn provides a touch of olde-England in the heart of Old Amersham. The surroundings...

    The Crown Coaching Inn, HP7

    Tweet With its inglenook fireplaces, crooked floors, half-timbered frontage and cobbled courtyard, this romantic Elizabethan coaching inn provides a touch of olde-England in the heart of Old Amersham. The surroundings...

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  • Tweet Take a bunch of restaurant staff who have shed blood, sweet and tears working their way up to work in some of London’s finest bars and Michelin-starred restaurants and...

    Prince of Wales, SW15

    Tweet Take a bunch of restaurant staff who have shed blood, sweet and tears working their way up to work in some of London’s finest bars and Michelin-starred restaurants and...

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  • Tweet Those well aquainted with Blackadder the Third will know that The Prince Regent was not blessed with political prowess. Instead he was more of an extravagant dandy dedicated to...

    York & Albany, NW1

    Tweet Those well aquainted with Blackadder the Third will know that The Prince Regent was not blessed with political prowess. Instead he was more of an extravagant dandy dedicated to...

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  • Tweet The annoying thing about the so called Gastropub is that they so often disappoint.  Too many ailing establishments slap on a lick of neutral paint, unenthusiastically overhaul the menu...

    The Jam Tree, W14

    Tweet The annoying thing about the so called Gastropub is that they so often disappoint.  Too many ailing establishments slap on a lick of neutral paint, unenthusiastically overhaul the menu...

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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 For every Nobu and The Ivy that is name-checked as a celebrity hang-out, there exists a far less conspicuous restaurant providing the same, if not better dining experience for...

    The Rib Room, SW1

    Tweet For every Nobu and The Ivy that is name-checked as a celebrity hang-out, there exists a far less conspicuous restaurant providing the same, if not better dining experience for...

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