Friday night and the Holborn Dining Room is heaving. Not at all bad for High Holborn, an area traditionally reserved either for late night drinkers from the outer reaches of the legal profession or office workers heading for Holborn tube on the daily grind home.
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16/02/2018 .Hankies Marble Arch
31/01/2018 .This leafy corner of London, between Oxford Street and Edgware Road, has quietly become an enclave of fashionable hotels and restaurants. The Georgian mews, crescents and squares here are far enough away from the hookah restaurants and shoppers to offer a bijou clutch of boutique properties and hidden gems living in peaceful harmony.
Read the full story hereMoo Krata Thai BBQ and Hot Pot
22/01/2018 .Any lovers of a good Korean barbecue or a Thai hot pot will simply get the best of both worlds here. Moo Krata is the brainchild of Thai restaurant entrepreneur Fah Sundravorakul, whose Shuang Shuang hot pot restaurant on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue has been causing a bit of a stir, if you’ll forgive the pun.
Read the full story hereBass and Lobster Food House
22/12/2017 .You know Gorey, even if you’ve never been there. It is Jersey’s go-to visual image for brochures and postcards, a picturesque crescent of traditional fishing-boat harbour with a backdrop of castle and green hills. So, the Bass and Lobster, informally named not as a restaurant but a Food House, located in Gorey, has the dream location.
Read the full story hereFlora Indica. Moreish food and Inventive cocktails.
15/11/2017 .Tucked away on London’s fashionable Old Brompton Road (some might even call it Chelsea) just a short stroll from Earl’s Court station, Flora Indica is so introvert you might mistake it for one of those curious old book shops.
Read the full story hereThe Grand Trunk Road Restaurant
05/10/2017 .The Grand Trunk Road may be one of Asia’s oldest and longest roads at 2,500 kilometres stretching from Kabul in Afghanistan to Chittagong in Bangladesh. But now it has a spur running through London’s leafy South Woodford in the shape of Grand Trunk Road restaurant.
Read the full story hereManitoba Tigella London
26/09/2017 .It sounds like the Latin name for an obscure herb, but Manitoba Tigella is actually an authentic Italian restaurant freshly arrived in London’s New Oxford Street, the southern boundary of foodie Fitzrovia which has hitherto been a bit of a gastronomic desert.
Read the full story hereThe Frog Restaurant
26/09/2017 .It was November 2014 when I last had the pleasure of Adam Handling. He was flushed with success at getting to the Professional Masterchef Final.
Read the full story hereThe Vineyard Hotel Judgement of Paris Tasting Menu
13/09/2017 .Tucked away in a corner of prime Berkshire countryside may be a strange location to remember an incident that literally rocked the wine industry. Yet when you consider The Vineyard Hotel in Stockcross is pretty much all about the fruit of the vine, then it all makes sense.
Read the full story herePetits Pois Restaurant
02/09/2017 .In these days of clean eating, a restaurant in right-on Shoreditch actually pushing meat is a rare treat indeed.
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