Korean Art in London
Seething, shimmering intensity at White Cube; quease-inducing kitsch propaganda at the BM. Both worth seeing.
Resto #4 Quê Mę
A full room on an early Saturday evening (in contrast to La Porchetta a couple of doors along) showed that Quê Me has successfully cracked the price/quality equation for this stretch of restos, where the competition is fierce.
Resto #3, The Wharf, South Bank
Good fish at The Wharf on the South Bank plus Vanessa Redgrave getting agitated over a self-inflicted mic problem.
Resto #2, Kanada-Ya
Beats Shoryu round the corner for broth and peace. Oh, and dry humping.
Restaurants of 2016 – the round up
A round up of the best and the worst of 2016. Le Voltaire takes top prize but who will be the stinker?
Review #111 Rowley’s, St James’s
Chequers, gin, beef, conviviality with a smattering of Stewart Lee, Mark E Smith and Torture Garden. Three hours of pure pleasure.
Review #112 Rotunda, Kings Cross
To be honest I was flagging by the time the steak turned up and it was with less of a bang than a whimper that I consumed the last meal of 2017.
Review #110 North Sea Fish Restaurant, Bloomsbury
Last night a fish bar saved my life. Well, kind of.
Review #109 National Gallery Café, Trafalgar Square
All those stick balancing Yoda scroungers ,now transformed by the Magic of Christmas into rapacious aerial Santas, make a mockery of the imperial pomposity of the Square's original plan far more effectively than Shrigley's tragic waste of bronze could ever do.
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Review #108 Bistro Aix, Crouch End
I can't wait to go back to Bistro Aix in the New Year and take a look at the à la carte - it's a place worth saving for a celebration.
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