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How to contact and complain to Qatar Airways customer care
Qatar Airways financially benefitted from my stroke, then ignored me for eight months until I threatened to sue them. As many readers will know, I am a stroke survivor. What I haven’t publicised until...
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Singburi Shoreditch review: lost in translation in the move from Leytonstone
Singburi used to be the best Thai restaurant in London, but things have changed. Cities change and they always have (despite what some nostalgic right-wing fantasists would have you believe). People...
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Hausu review – eclectic dishes pull into railway restaurant
Coal Rooms Peckham is no more, but its replacement is far better. Given that I’ve now been reviewing restaurants for 15-odd years, it’s perhaps surprising that I haven’t been to more restaurants that...
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Bronek’s Fish Restaurant review – a big fish in a medium-sized pond
Seafood and wacky decor get you in the door, but it’s the people watching that makes you come back. Pining for what once was is a pastime that I really need to snap out of (and the same goes for the...
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Speedboat Bar Notting Hill review – loud Thai food worth shouting about
Punchy, varied and characterful Thai food is a hill worth dying on. I have a pet theory that the decor of Thai restaurants can be seen as a rough proxy for London’s relationship with Thai food (and...
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I had a stroke in Nepal and this is what I ate while I recovered
These are the delicious (and not so delicious) meals that I hope you never have to taste Much like the Spanish Inquisition, no one ever expects to have a stroke. I was supposed to have been gawping at...
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Akara review – a taste of West Africa in Borough Market
A jack of all trades and a master of fun It is a truth universally acknowledged that pan-Asian restaurants are, generally speaking, a bit pants. Serving a grab bag of dishes from half-a-dozen (or...
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L’il Nashville review – BBQ not worth making a song and dance about
Chiswick, that lawless wild west of London, finally has its own barbecue restaurant. Sort of. Certain restaurants are suited for certain occasions. It’s a rather obvious thing to point out – most...
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Sambal Shiok review – the laksa specialist with something for everyone
The Holloway Road Malaysian that’s more than just crowd pleasing It’s no secret to most Londoners that Wagamama isn’t very good. That shouldn’t be a surprise given that its menu straddles five or six...
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Camille review – the French-ish restaurant in Borough Market that’s actually...
Duck Soup goes French, sort of My review of Cafe Francois in Borough Market didn’t sit well with some people, in part because of my conclusion that its savoury main menu wasn’t French enough. Plus the...
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Café François review – the French brasserie that’s not French enough
Crowd pleasing isn’t always a pleasure There’s something of a disconnect between the way Café François presents itself to the world and the way it actually is. The website’s swirling line art and...
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Fonda review – the Regent Street Mexican that’s a bit fuzzy
Upselling Mexican food is harder than it used to be Convincing people to part with their money can be an uphill task. Especially so if you’re a charity, but much less so if you’re a wellness...
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Guacamoles review – blockbuster tacos at Peckham Rye market
If you know someone sceptical about Mexican food, then this place could be pivotally Damascene in winning them over Every now and again I’ll receive a press release about how a new restaurant is...
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Burnt Smokehouse review – the barbecue restaurant in a Leyton railway arch
Apparently the future of restaurants is a lot like the past It may seem strange to start a review about a barbecue restaurant in Leyton by talking about Polpo, but there is a method to my madness....
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Pho Thuy Tay review – step out of your Vietnamese comfort zone in Surrey Quays
The best things to eat are all there in black and white For any foreign cuisine to become popular in the UK, it unfortunately has to be distillable into a handful of stereotyped dishes that are easy...
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Josephine Bouchon review: the French menu that tastes even better than it reads
Hearty French food that’s worth going back for When I re-reviewed Bibendum, after its kitchen had been taken over by noted chef Claude Bosi back in the bucolic days of 2017, I noted that one or two of...
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The best and worst takeaway Cantonese roasts in London
55 portions of roast duck, 47 of char siu, 49 of roast pork and 39 of chicken from 43 eateries. This isn’t your racist uncle’s Chinese takeaway. While other regional Chinese cuisines from Sichuanese...
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Uzbek Corner review: a taste of Uzbekistan in Bayswater
The ‘exotic’ yet homely Central Asian restaurant hidden in Queensway Market Although it’s not quite as common as it used to be, there’s a hoary old cliche found on restaurant menus across the land:...
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Everyday People review – ramen that’s not daylight robbery, but it’s not...
This review of a Nottingham restaurant is a break from the Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage. I occasionally wonder what Japanese people think of the Japanese food they encounter outside the...
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Jerk Yard review – the Deptford hole-in-the-wall trying to be the jack of all...
If necessity is the mother of invention, then not having enough space must be its midwife. Despite its prominent spot in the Deptford Yard market, Caribbean takeaway Jerk Yard seems to get far less...
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