Review #107 Hanoi Phø*, Green Lanes
Hot Nutside Vietnamese dining? Focus on the food, ignore Elton and you'll be okay.
Review #106 Autograf Grill, Green Lanes
It's a top value all-you-can-eat pigfest at Green Lanes' finest Polish restaurant.
Review #105 Salt Yard, Goodge Street
Crocodile eyeballs and a Carol Voldemort reference? It's an IACGMOOH laden account of an excellent lunch at Salt Yard.
Review #104 Bistrot Blanc Bec, Paris
Well, we’d been in Paris for a whole weekend and had yet to go to a proper bistrot for a proper lump of cooked stuff. Across from Les Trois 8 and down the road from Les Félines le Blanc Bec was within staggering distance of two of my newest favourite bars so we did that.…
James Ensor at the RA
Much more interesting and surprising than the overblown yanks below, who seem the most humourless bunch of po-faced canvas wasters set against the deftly humorous savagery of Ensor and his confrères.
Review #100 Diwana, Drummond Street
The third Drummond Street of the year and probably the best. But where's the chicken?!
Review #99 Pasta Remoli, Finsbury Park
Helped along by excellent service Pasta Remoli seems to be a good value option if you can't be arsed to walk the extra mile to the Stroud Green Italian Quarter.
Review #98 Gitane, Fitzrovia
Good quiche and an untwattish atmos in Gitane.
Review #97 Vapiano, Great Portland Street
Charmless queueing? No thanks.
Review #96 MI+ME, St Pancras
Scouting out a walk for Belgian clients I arrived at St Pancras ravenous. Options in St P are becoming fairly limited towards the end of the year so I gave MI+ME a go. Given its name I was half expecting some Marcel Marceau action from the waiting staff. Alas, no. The name remains irritating without…
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