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Peyote vs Breddo’s Tacos review – Mayfair Mexican miracle or middling muddle?
Mayfair poshos vs market stall wanderers Breddo’s Tacos was one of the very few Mexican eateries that I managed to miss during my recent round-up of London’s burrito and taco eateries. I finally got...
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The Ape and Bird review – the Shaftesbury Avenue gastropub that’s no tourist...
The Polpo guys do it again It’s mildly myopic to say that there’s no where good to eat on Shaftesbury Avenue as the myriad delights of Soho, Covent Garden and Chinatown are only a few minutes walk...
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Janetira review – the tasty Soho Thai restaurant that isn’t Busaba
Brewer Street gets spicy If you’ve got a hankering for Thai food when you’re out and about in the Soho area, then the obvious choice is Busaba Eathai. I find Alan Yau’s chain to be merely okay though,...
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Ember Yard review – Soho barbecue tapas
Quince-glazed ribs and chorizo skewers on Berwick Street Soho isn’t short of tapas restaurants – indeed, it’s an area of London absolutely overflowing with them. That hasn’t stopped a new one from...
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Jackson + Rye review – Soho late night diner and American breakfasts
Late to bed and early to rise makes one fat and tired Given the number of early risers and night owls in London, there are surprisingly few breakfast spots worth seeking out and even fewer late night...
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Drakes Tabanco review – Tapas combining the best of Britain and Spain?
Fitzrovia tapas and sherry Fitzrovia, that weird part of London north of Oxford Street, south of Euston, west of Bloomsbury and east of Marylebone, is overflowing with tapas restaurants. Barrica, The...
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Lalibela review – a taste of Ethiopia in Tufnell Park
Kitsch and kitfo by the kilo* *meat not actually sold by the kilogram. I just like alliteration. Cities and towns across Britain are largely filled with the same ol’ usual suspects when it comes to...
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Clockjack Oven review – Soho rotisserie and fried chicken
Juicy birds or plucking hell? London has been inundated by a small flood of fried and roast chicken restaurants. I fully recognise that chicken cooked well can be a world apart from the usual fowl...
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The most popular London restaurants of 2013
I really dislike the end-of-year roundups found on most websites. Ensuring that loyal readers have something to read over the quiet Christmas/New Year’s/Winterval period is admirable; cynically...
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Meat People review – Islington zebra, steak and pork
S&M no more Meat People might sound like yet another part of the burgeoning Meatliqour burger empire, but it’s actually, as far as I can tell, an independent meat-focussed restaurant. It’s located...
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Blackfoot review – the Exmouth Market all-pork restaurant
Time to pig out There’s no shortage of steak and burger restaurants in London, but very few dedicated to pork. Although some may think that the pig is inferior to the cow, pork definitely has its own...
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Devran review – Green Lanes kebab newcomer
Getting fat on big-ass kebabs Most of the Turkish restaurants on north London’s Green Lanes have been around for years, so the arrival of an apparent newcomer such as Devran is an unusual occurrence....
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My Old Place review – budget Liverpool Street Chinese
Cheap and cheerful Chinese cuisine The City isn’t the first place that comes to mind for eating out inexpensively, with most people heading to nearby Shoreditch instead. There are worthwhile...
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E. Mono review – Kentish Town kebabs come to Finsbury Park
Worth seeking out or just another take away for tired, drunken locals? E. Mono is a renowned kebab restaurant and take away in Kentish Town that also has a second outpost within the confines of...
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Boopshi’s review – Fitzrovia schnitzel and bratwurst
Hearty party Traditional Austrian food is never going to take over the world. At the risk of making a crude generalisation, old school Austrian food at its best is tasty, but also rather heavy with...
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House of Ho review – modern Vietnamese food shakes up Soho?
No sniggering in the back The vast majority of Vietnamese restaurants in London have very traditional menus and tend to be clustered together in Hoxton and Deptford, with smaller concentrations in...
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Imli Street review – gluten-free Soho Indian
Contemporary Indian small plates for sharing I’m fortunate enough that I can almost anything I want, but others have restrictions on what they can eat. The Cape, the better half of the The Squinting...
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The best and worst banh mi in London – Vietnamese sandwiches review
18 eateries, 49 sandwiches, one verdict Pho, or beef noodle soup, is the dish most commonly known Vietnamese dish but there’s another that deserves just as much attention and love – the humble banh mi....
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Tayyabs review – Whitechapel curry praised in Haiku
Classic cheap curry consumed cheerfully For most Londoners, Tayyabs needs no introduction. Away from the tourist trap that is Brick Lane, this Whitechapel stalwart has been serving up inexpensive,...
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Rosa’s Thai Cafe review – Carnaby Street Thai surprise
Thai mini-chain sprouts again in Soho Restaurants, especially those serving foreign cuisines, have a funny relationship with names. They will often have a cliched name related to the mother country – a...
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