JM Oriental review. Award-winning Chinese restaurant in north west London.
02/12/2024 .
Restaurant Reviews
Element 47. Aspen’s delightful farm fresh restaurant.
I was informed by those in the know, that Element 47 was named after the silver ore that was once Aspen’s meal ticket, rather than my spectacularly wrong guess, the number of ingredients chef Matthew Padilla uses in his gastronomic creations.
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Ognisko London. A delicious taste of Poland in south Kensington
Sausage and gherkins come more readily to mind than gastronomic delights as stereotypes of Polish food, but Ognisko is forcing diners to reconsider their perceptions.
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UNA Supper Club. Brilliant concept dining location at St Pancras.
It’s the hardest restaurant to find your way into, in spite of its familiarity as a London landmark. Who’d have thought you could eat dinner inside George Gilbert Scott’s clock tower atop St. Pancras station? It actually houses a private penthouse whose Gothic tower enjoys a sometime alter ego as UNA, a South American supper club becoming one of the hottest tickets in town.
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Terranima
Bari is so unrepresentative of Puglia – the formal, imposing and rather austere capital of a region which is all about charm, informality and joie de vivre – that it’s surprising to find a suitably charming and informal restaurant in its back streets.
Terranima is a microcosm of rural Puglia – its trompe l’oeil decor is designed to evoke the feeling of a street in one of the region’s hilltop towns – and the food is utterly authentic.
Isle of Eriska Restaurant
Head chef Ross Stovold has a lot to answer for as far as I am concerned. The former top man at Michelin-starred Alimentum in Cambridge has brought his Michelin magic to the Isle of Eriska restaurant, within the family owned hotel sitting on its very own Scottish island.
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Magnificent L’Orangerie du Chateau Restaurant. Loire Valley
Lucy Daltroff heads for the Loire Valley as she dines at L’Orangerie du Chateau Restaurant.
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