Restaurant Archive

  • Tweet This restaurant has it all. Checked tablecloths with matching floor, mirrors with funky frames, a slightly snotty manager and Coq au Vin on the menu. None of this fusion,...

    Ma Cuisine, TW9

    Tweet This restaurant has it all. Checked tablecloths with matching floor, mirrors with funky frames, a slightly snotty manager and Coq au Vin on the menu. None of this fusion,...

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  • Tweet The credit crunch was meant to spell doom and annihilation for our restaurants; people would no longer have any money to dine out and we would apparently be resigned...

    Bistro du Vin, W1 & EC1

    Tweet The credit crunch was meant to spell doom and annihilation for our restaurants; people would no longer have any money to dine out and we would apparently be resigned...

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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 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 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 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 Unless you live or work in the area, the Docklands is a bit of a mystery to most of us.  Up until recently, it was just a place where...

    Plateau, E14

    Tweet Unless you live or work in the area, the Docklands is a bit of a mystery to most of us.  Up until recently, it was just a place where...

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  • Tweet Celebrity favourites’ have a tendency to be all show and no-go, so it’s with some caution that we visit these restaurants.  After a while, though, the quality has to...

    Nozomi, SW3

    Tweet Celebrity favourites’ have a tendency to be all show and no-go, so it’s with some caution that we visit these restaurants.  After a while, though, the quality has to...

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  • Tweet I believe there’s a line in Cocktail where someone says of Tom Cruise’s character: “Guys want to be him and the girls want to be with him”.  Head on...

    Lonsdale Bar & Kitchen, W11

    Tweet I believe there’s a line in Cocktail where someone says of Tom Cruise’s character: “Guys want to be him and the girls want to be with him”.  Head on...

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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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