Review #67 Shikara, South Kensington
Pre-Prom not quite spice and a wonder about why it has to be either Kingfisher or Cobra.
Review #63 Gaylord Restaurant, Fitzrovia
Heritage Indian food in Mortimer Street. Expanses of white linen and good goat.
Review #58 King Baba, Leamington Spa
Between the sublime of Italy’s disposal of Spain and the ridiculous of England’s football disgrace we dined at the court of King Baba. Baba’s digs are by no means palatial, in fact his monarchical style tends to the stripped back Scandinavian vibe with an Indian twist rather than plush oriental splendour. But that suited us…
Review #52 Indika, Green Lanes
A hipster crushed and some good Indian food on Green Lanes.
Review #48 Abi Ruchi, Stoke Newington
Sunday evening in Stoke Newington and I’d forgotten that there was a match on. So before meeting in Abi Ruchi I had a pitstop in the excellent pub on the corner where by some curious conjunction I saw Jamie Vardy score to the sound of a typically bittersweet Elliott Smith track. But that’s beside the…
Review #46 Standard Tandoori, Holloway Road
How can you review a restaurant you've been going to for two decades?
Review #42 Akbar’s, Coventry
To Coventry to hand over tickets for a Tindersticks gig and catch up with the eldest. We had snow, hail, rain and sun on the way to the excellent Twisted Barrel Alehouse and similar on our trek back to the other side of Coventry to Akbar’s in search of curry. And boy did we get…
Review #37 Exotic of India, Stroud Green
Poppadom, Madras, Okra ... job done.
Review #28 Curry Leaf East, Moorgate
We should have gone further East than Curry Leaf East.
Review #25 Mirabai, Headington
Good Indian food a short stroll from Oxford Brookes
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