From Gary Yau, a path-breaking restaurant, bringing high-quality Japanese fare (including top-quality sushi) and striking design values to Soho; it’s no bargain, but standards on our early-days visit were uniformly very high. It’s rare for a major new central restaurant to steal up on the world the way this new establishment has, and all the […]
An elegantly-conceived bar/brasserie, on a corner of a square which is a byword for fashionability; the latest product from the Martin (‘Gun’) brothers, it offers ‘high street’ fare at boutique prices. Starting off at The Well EC1, the Martin brothers have made quite a name for their gastropubs. Arguably the best was their second establishment, […]
An airy, clean-lined and spacious Kensington parlour, serving top-class burgers at reasonable prices; service is friendly but sometimes inattentive. A rave review elsewhere drew us to this new burger parlour, which has stealthily opened in the heart of Kensington (by the entrance to Holland Park). It’s an impressively airy and capacious space, decorated in cool […]
In Soho, the second member of a new Gallic bistro chain (brought to you by many of the people who created Strada); it’s a useful enough place, in a chain sort of way, and friendly too, but our visit found the cooking uninspired. We are getting more and more preoccupied by the bistro question. Why, […]
A laid-back but high quality gastropub that’s all the more welcome in the gastronomically deprived environs of Muswell Hill. Typical Conversations We Have with our Customers: No 14. Reader: ‘You don’t have many places in North London… that’s where I live.’ Us: ‘No. True. We don’t. We always struggle to find good places.’ Reader: ‘That’s […]
A basic Balham bistro, aiming to offer a true Gallic experience at reasonable prices; on our visit, however, the food was very up-and-down, and service was shocking. The first Gazette is hidden-away in Battersea, near the river. When we ventured there last year, we found a straightforward Gallic bistro with real potential, but also noted […]
A plain Smithfield establishment on the former Rudland & Stubbs (RIP) site, bearing the name of a former Caprice group executive chef; our early-days sampling of the meat-heavy English menu showed signs of promise, but the performance overall struck us as complacent. OK. So, for years, you’ve been a chef of some eminence (if perhaps […]
By the tracks at the new St Pancras, a run-of-the-mill ‘English’ pub-cum-brasserie, from Geronimo Inns, with ideas above its station. “Yeah it’s good… well, it’s all right… it’s fine.” Our old American chum was hesitating and giving the game away. If it was that good, why was he leaving so much uneaten on the plate? […]
Italian bistro-meets-Marylebone boozer – Claudio Pulze’s latest addition to London’s dining scene (his 50th!) is an odd and hard-to-characterise venture, offering good food at good prices, and friendly service too. Claudio Pulze has variously insisted that his latest venture, in Marylebone is (Ã la Gordon) “not a gastropub, just a pub that does food’ or, […]
A would-be-trendy Indian restaurant-cum-cocktail bar, on the Chelsea ‘Beach’; it offers good and sometimes innovative cuisine, but the atmosphere on our visit was rather flat. The site which is now Mokssh – pretty much opposite the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital – used to be home to a very good tapas bar called Lomo. Quite a […]
