Already likened to the River Café (but much cheaper), this buzzy and unpretentious Bermondsey outfit offers straightforward Italian cooking of a consistently high standard. The blizzard of PR nonsense which tends to anticipate the arrival of a new London restaurant is too often followed by realisation that it has turned out, in fact, to be […]

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A friendly, independently run sushi bar and Japanese bistro, in a striking setting at the base of a new office building, just north of Broadgate. It’s almost impossible to overstate the change that’s come over the City in the past quarter-century. How did those of us who worked there in those far-off days survive with […]

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Mooli’s W1 Traditionally, you couldn’t get anything worth eating for a fiver in central London. Times, though, they are a-changing. Here are two recent débuts where you can do just that. There aren’t many places in London where we’d positively look forward to a lunch for a fiver, but Moolis is the obvious exception. Bright […]

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Unchanged from the days when it was called De Cecco, this long-running Italian is now even more appropriately named, serving up an above-average ‘local’ formula to the lucky inhabitants of Parson’s Green. The change of name of the establishment long called De Cecco drew us back to this Parson’s Green Italian, which was established over […]

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