On a difficult Shoreditch site (once Savarone, RIP), an odd-but-interestingly-styled Italian restaurant, with cosy basement bar; our early-days visit found the – perhaps surprisingly conventional – Italian cooking to be of some promise. It must be really hard opening near the City nowadays. How depressing must it be when just one person comes along to […]
The welcoming flagship restaurant of the eponymous Irish chef, offering an unflashy but very comfortable Mayfair experience; on our early-days visit, the menu, specialising in game and seafood, was often realised to a high level, but standards were not entirely consistent. Sometimes, you read reviews so good you just have to drop everything and go […]
On an ‘historic’ Tribeca restaurant site, formerly Montrachet (RIP), a lofty, spacious and calming new dining room, presided over – personally, on our visit – by leading local and international (Nobu) restaurateur Drew Nieporent; it offers notably prettily-presented modern American cuisine of consistently high quality. Downtown NYC restaurant sites don’t get much more ‘historic’ than […]
Hidden away in a cute Marylebone back street, an airy brasserie – with notably comfortable bar – that tries to disown the parentage of the hotel to which it is connected; a relatively straightforward menu is offered, trumpeting its use of the quality ingedients available locally, but realisation on our visit just missed the mark. […]
An elegant and refined, if perhaps rather anonymous, addition to the Gordon Ramsay empire, on the former Mayfair site of Zen Central (RIP); Angela Hartnett’s Italian-influenced menu is the highlight of an impressive across-the-board performance. Gordon Ramsay is so omnipresent in the media nowadays that it’s easy to forget that the number of undoubted ‘hit’ […]
Instantly popular, a very large warehouse-style bar/restaurant, in a newly-created pedestrian street, behind Tate Modern; our early days visit suggested that its popularity has nothing to do with its cuisine. One of the – generally nice – surprises in the dull life of the restaurant reviewer is stumbling across a whole new street of dining possibilities. […]
From the famous Spanish food importers – a sibling to their Borough tapas bar, with an expensive Continental look; its tapas dishes show promise, but they’re neither cheap nor wholly consistent; (a perch at the bar is a good option here). It’s nice to see how the other half lives. The other half in this […]
