Review #64 San Carlo Cichetti, Covent Garden
Venetian-style Cichetti in an opulent room; a mixed bag of value with good service.
Review #63 Gaylord Restaurant, Fitzrovia
Heritage Indian food in Mortimer Street. Expanses of white linen and good goat.
Review #60 The Gilbert Scott, St Pancras
Set menu, Gothic room, good for a celebration.
Review #59 Byron, New Change
Post traumatic parents' evening trauma assuaged by good burgers but with an sting in the wallet for thirsty beerhounds.
Review #57 HIX Mayfair, er Mayfair
To HIX Mayfair on Albemarle Street with a friend who was looking for a suitable venue for a major birthday party. We’d been lured by the improbably cheap set lunch menu of 32 nicker for three courses and an introductory cocktail. HIX Mayfair is less flamboyant than the other branches I’ve visited in Shoreditch and…
Review #52 Indika, Green Lanes
A hipster crushed and some good Indian food on Green Lanes.
Obligatory Borough Market Review
Can there be anyone who writes about food in London who hasn’t devoted a post to Borough Market? I don’t usually like to follow the herd but since I’ve been confined to SE1 for an age doing my citizenly duty I felt I had to share my experience. Borough Market is a (ugh) ‘foodie heaven’…
Review #50 Roast, Borough Market
Good lunch at a price in the eaves of Borough Market's Floral Hall.
Review #49 Osteria Tufo, Fonthill Road
Another Friday in Finsbury Park and another Italian. Osteria Tufo turns out to be the best so far this year.
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…
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