Resto 16 Brasserie Zédel, Piccadilly
I could feel myself putting on another chin as I downed the last of the wine and slithered up the stairs to the pale March sunshine.
Resto 15 Vinoteca, King’s Cross
Good fish in a Chipperfield beauty. Vinoteca is a winner.
Resto 14 Bill’s, Holborn
Is Kingsway the most functional eating street in London? It has all the chains in a relentlessly mid-range bracket and in the mid-range of the mid-range sits Bill's.
Resto 12 The Lion and Lobster, Brighton
Crazy like a mouse and rusty like a Ford Cortina - rollercoasters on Brighton pier may not be the highest but they offer their own brand of terror. But first an excellent Sunday roast to celebrate a birthday.
Resto #10 Boulestin, St James’s
Meeting a friend at the library we were looking for somewhere new within walking distance. I’d read about Boulestin a while ago (when it had freshly revamped a classic restaurant brand) – some okay, some bad. On the whole I liked it. First impressions were good. The room feels light, a nice change from the…
Resto #9 Pierino, South Ken
Chilli ketchup, the Pet Shop Boys and the civilising influence of pizza.
Resto #5 Belga Queen, Ghent
For a romantic evening this was a good find and the evening got even better once we'd found the Hot Club de Gent where they were playing some seriously good jazz.
Review #7 A La Mort Subite, Brussels
Like the Café Den Turk À La Mort Subite is the kind of historical location that could, if it chose, go down the route of celebrating its own celebrity by going easy on what made it good in the first place and turn itself into a Belgian theme park. And like the CDN it is…
Review #8 Mub’Art, Ghent
The last of our eating places of a very high quality weekend was the surprise package. To borrow from Rumsfeld (who seems strangely less crazy than once he did, that’s the power of 2016) Mort Subite was a known known, Belga Queen was a known unknown and Den Turk was an unknown known. Mub’Art, however,…
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.
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