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
Sadly without Gatting we couldn't get a carry out but Les Babines wineshop did have the best value of the weekend.
Read more Review #103 Les Babines, Paris
It's always a mistake to choose your restaurant from the name of a record rather than the food it serves.
Read more Review #102 West Country Girl, Paris
On the back of one hour's sleep I break the rules with a return visit to Café Charbon.
Read more Review #101 Café Charbon, 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