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.
Read more Review #109 National Gallery Café, Trafalgar Square
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.
Read more Review #108 Bistro Aix, Crouch End
Hot Nutside Vietnamese dining? Focus on the food, ignore Elton and you'll be okay.
Read more Review #107 Hanoi Phø*, Green Lanes
It's a top value all-you-can-eat pigfest at Green Lanes' finest Polish restaurant.
Read more Review #106 Autograf Grill, Green Lanes
Crocodile eyeballs and a Carol Voldemort reference? It's an IACGMOOH laden account of an excellent lunch at Salt Yard.
Read more Review #105 Salt Yard, Goodge Street
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.…
Read more Review #104 Bistrot Blanc Bec, Paris
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.
Read more James Ensor at the RA
The third Drummond Street of the year and probably the best. But where's the chicken?!
Read more Review #100 Diwana, Drummond Street
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.
Read more Review #99 Pasta Remoli, Finsbury Park
Good quiche and an untwattish atmos in Gitane.
Read more Review #98 Gitane, Fitzrovia