Quite a “mainstream” crowd nowadays frequents this once-edgy East End warehouse-conversion; it “still feels like a bit of a secret”, though, and makes a “great venue for brunch” (or, of course, the drag-cabaret).
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“The awfulness” of the location – an industrial part of Bethnal Green – makes this the “perfect spot for the fashion crowd’s favourite restaurant”, opines the critic. Once inside, he recovers from his “cissy squeamishness” and finds “it is really very cool”. He likes the “utilitarian chic” of the “airy dining-room” and finds the food “holds its own well enough” (with puddings “the undoubted triumph of the evening”). So, “for all its hyper coolness”, this turns out to be “a warm and welcoming kind of joint”.
Gareth Wyn Davies (7th September 2009)
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