A grand Chinese restaurant, with impressive panoramic views of Kensington Gardens and, in the distance, of many of London’s major landmarks; duck, served three ways, is the house speciality, but we think the dim sum a more reliable, and better-value, attraction. They make a big deal about duck at this smart Chinese restaurant, on the […]
Just off the top end of Bond Street, a potentially very useful trattoria offshoot of the popular neighbouring Ristorante Semplice; the place seems to have suffered from a curious personality bypass, though, and the food on our visit was very up-and-down. We were excited when we heard that Ristorante Semplice – a Mayfair Italian restaurant […]
A small but smart Fitzrovia offshoot (the first) of the popular and well-established Clapham Japanese establishment of the same name; on our early-days lunch, the food tended to unremarkable. At its best, the food at the long-established Clapham Japanese, of the same name, is very good indeed, so we were rather disappointed by our early-days […]
Just off Trafalgar Square, a rare example, for London, of an establishment focussing on a single product – mozzarella; we don’t think that’s a route to success in this city, and – judging the place simply as a ‘vineria’ or ‘caffetteria’ as which it also advertises itself – we found its other attractions rather difficult […]
Near the Gherkin, a surprisingly comfortable and atmospheric Japanese restaurant, specialising in sushi; standards are uniformly high, and – if you choose the sushi menu – can even be enjoyed at reasonable cost. There’s something odd about this new Japanese restaurant by the Gherkin. It took us a while to figure out what it was. […]
Photo courtesy of Jean Georges Management Oddly located overlooking a highway, on the edge of the West Village, the latest addition to the Jean-Georges Vongerichten empire; it offers an interesting eastern-influenced cuisine, which – at lunchtime – can be enjoyed extraordinary cheaply. Well, the credit card bill from our New York trip has just arrived, […]
On a difficult Shoreditch site (once Savarone, RIP), an odd-but-interestingly-styled Italian restaurant, with cosy basement bar; our early-days visit found the – perhaps surprisingly conventional – Italian cooking to be of some promise. It must be really hard opening near the City nowadays. How depressing must it be when just one person comes along to […]
A gimmick-led Soho Japanese, where you: i) order online; and ii) get to control the pattern which is projected on to your personal tabletop; it’s amusing enough to appeal to most people’s inner child for at least one visit, and the food – if not the main point of the place – is rather better […]
The welcoming flagship restaurant of the eponymous Irish chef, offering an unflashy but very comfortable Mayfair experience; on our early-days visit, the menu, specialising in game and seafood, was often realised to a high level, but standards were not entirely consistent. Sometimes, you read reviews so good you just have to drop everything and go […]
On an ‘historic’ Tribeca restaurant site, formerly Montrachet (RIP), a lofty, spacious and calming new dining room, presided over – personally, on our visit – by leading local and international (Nobu) restaurateur Drew Nieporent; it offers notably prettily-presented modern American cuisine of consistently high quality. Downtown NYC restaurant sites don’t get much more ‘historic’ than […]
