Patty and Bun vs Brgr.co review – burger bun fight
Beirut burgers and the best chicken wings in London London doesn’t seem to be tiring of burgers. Since my gut-busting 35 burger roundup that finished back in August, still more burger restaurants have...
View ArticleMalibu Club review – Indian food at the end of the Northern Line
Dinner in Erehwon. I sometimes find myself visiting the most obscure restaurants in the course of writing this blog. Malibu Club is a prime example – this little known second floor restaurant, sat...
View ArticlePearl Liang review – evening Dim Sum near Paddington
Dim Sum is for life not just for lunch Chinese food is slowly losing its reputation as a greasy after-pub stomach liner. Glitzy West End restaurants like Hakkasan, HKK, Bo London and Yauatcha get all...
View ArticleEating my way around Taiwan
A travelogue where I eat myself stupid while the locals gawp and stare I could bore myself to tears writing about Taiwan – the landscapes, the cities and the people are, respectively, awe-inspiring,...
View ArticleDin Tai Fung review – the biggest restaurant chain you’ve never heard of
This review of a Taiwan restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage During my recent visit to Shanghai I sadly neglected to have any xiaolongbao, the city’s trademark...
View ArticleFive Cent Driftwood House review – Taipei’s weirdest-looking restaurant
This review of a Taiwan based restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage The oddly-named Five Cent Driftwood House is a fair trek from the centre of Taipei, but if...
View ArticleCitystar 24hr Restaurant – round the clock Taipei Dim Sum
This review of a Taipei restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Arriving in Taipei late at night when you’re in need of a hearty feed is far from ideal. Many...
View ArticleMoe Yakiniku review – backstreet meat on heat in Taipei
This review of a Taiwan restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Sometimes the best restaurants are the ones you stumble across completely by accident. I hadn’t...
View ArticleTian Xiang Huwei Hot Pot review – Mongolian hot pot in Taipei
This review of a Taiwan restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Taipei is a pretty cheap place to eat out, at least by Western standards, with many of my meals...
View ArticleKiki review – seriously stinky tofu
This review of a Taiwan restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Taipei is full of interesting places to eat, but when you’re stumbling around the city’s confusingly...
View ArticleTaipei Shin Gu Shiang review – old school dining in Taipei
This review of a Taiwan restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Taipei is an almost effortlessly modern metropolis and that’s reflected in many of its restaurants...
View ArticleKimchi Cult review – burgers Korean-style
Fermented cabbage burger pop-up at The Black Heart The Black Heart pub in Camden clearly likes hosting pop-up restaurants and has a thing for burgers too if its choices so far are anything to go by....
View ArticleTaiwan New Paradise Banana review – a museum? A restaurant? It’s both!
This review of a Taiwan restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Most Western tourists visiting Taiwan will probably never visit the city of Taichung in the western...
View ArticleTu Hsiao Yueh review – smoked shark and goose in Taipei
This review of a Taiwan restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Danzi noodles is a dish native to Taiwan and one of the supposedly best places to try it in Taipei is...
View ArticleHKK review – Chinese fine dining in the City
Suits you or just for suits? Hakkasan was one of the restaurants that helped foster the idea that Chinese food in London wasn’t just greasy take away fare. HKK is a new City spin-off of the Soho...
View ArticleShin Yeh review – eating chicken testicles and more
This review of a Taiwan restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Chain restaurants have a poor reputation in the UK for limp, poor-quality food and soulless...
View ArticleRenger-Patzsch review – hearty Berlin dining year round
This review of a Berlin restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Berlin has no shortage of restaurants serving up food from outside the German-speaking world as well...
View ArticleKimchi Princess review – Korean food in east Berlin
This review of a Berlin restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage People never cease to surprise me. In light of the jaw-dropping levels of culinary conservatism that...
View ArticleBurger and Shake vs Burger and Lobster review – which one is better?
Cow and lobster double vision It’d be easy to dismiss Burger and Shake as a mere imitator of Burger and Lobster. Both serve burgers and lobster rolls, but the two do have their differences. Whereas...
View ArticleThe best and worst flat white coffees in London
50 different flat whites tasted; only nine worth drinking Way back in September 2011 I set out to find the best flat white coffee in London, trying out 21 different versions. Since then I’ve received...
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