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Resto 35 Le Mercury, Islington

Good food followed by an hour of Trotskyite propaganda delivered with all the charm of a carriage full of soccer hooligans beating up your grandma.

Resto 19 Des Gars Dans La Cuisine, Paris

The Marais has some jewels - especially the Musée de la Chasse et Nature (also bereft of vittles) - but you have to pay for them in the tedium of expensive crapshops, chainshit and a swarm of arseholes, some on scooters.

Resto 18 Brasserie Saint Maurice, Reims

Kudos to the guy in the Uruguayan rugby shirt for surprise outfit of the day.

Resto 17 Théâtre de Poche, Montparnasse

We took the salad of the day and a big planche of cheese with a couple of glasses of Chablis on the side. The salad turned out mostly to be pesto-stirred pasta with a few bits of veg secreted within. Palatable but not exactly what we were looking for. The cheese on the other hand was five varieties of the runny shiznit with a generous helping of rustic bread alongside - definitely a better option. The wine was too warm.

Resto 12 Irvin, Crouch End

With excellent service throughout and design that shows a close attention to detail Irvin is a very happy-making place.

Resto 11 La Petite Auberge, Islington

Our go to pre-Almeida place is usually Radici but this week we fancied a change. La Petite Auberge is only marginally more distant from the theatre and at six on a Tuesday there was plenty of room inside, and given the state of traffic on Upper Street a pavement table wasn’t especially alluring. The room…