The Chippy
Fay Maschler, Evening Standard (Rating: 3/5 stars)
In a rare ‘geographical’ piece, Ms Maschler does a round up on Soho’s Poland Street, which she pronounces to be emerging as a restaurant destination. Top of the billling, a new establishment which doffs a “vibrant nod to the days when fish and chips was a staple food and also fuel for the spirit of Keep Calm and Carry On” – “brisk, clean, efficient, licensed and successfully classless”.
No Hana Sushi Bar, Sake No Hana
Marino O'Loughlin, Metro (Rating: 4/5 stars)
London is “not known as a sushi city”, says the critic, so “ripples of excitement from addicts have [her] haring to the [newly-opened] basement sushi counter at Sake No Hana”. She “didn't much like this super chi-chi joint” above (and, though it was “heaving” on her visit, reports “vague mutterings that the restaurant might close for a rethink”.) Below, there are few people, and the experience is “slightly surreal”, but the “omakase [chef’s selection] they rustle up for us after some frantic consultation is as good as you’ll get in London”. “[I]f your sushi experience is limited to Yo! or (shudder) M&S, you should go and astonish yourself.”
Comida
Guy Dimond, Time Out (Rating: 3/6 stars)
The critic – “just back from Rio de Janeiro” – has a mixed, but by no means all-bad, experience at this new Mayfair Brazilian.
Rasa Sayang
Charmaine Mok, Time Out (Rating: 4/6 stars)
The critic visits a “new Chinatown eatery that prides itself on serving Malaysian and Singaporean specialities”, and finds “plenty [to] please those searching for homestyle South East Asian cooking”. Pretty “Straits-forward”, in fact.
Lazeez
Cyrus Shahrad, Time Out (Rating: 4/6 stars)
The critic visits a new Edgware Road establishment offering “the warmth of a Middle Eastern family home during Eid”, and where everything ordered was “freshly prepared”.
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