Near Liverpool Street, an airy, well-spaced and business-friendly contemporary restaurant offering Indian food of good quality; as at the parent establishment, the Cinnamon Club, however, prices give nothing away. Airy and spacious, but darkly-furnished, there’s something very American about this new Indian restaurant near Liverpool Street. With its unconcealed ducting, it might, say, be a […]
Brilliantly handily-situated within one minute of South Kensington tube, the latest – and they say last – offshoot of Brindisa, the Borough food-importers’ tapas bar; it offers conventional light Spanish dishes of a high quality, in a comfortable but unpretentious setting. [Capsule review only – there’s nothing we can add to the above.]
A very smart and comfortable oyster (and light meal) bar, attached to the famous Theatreland fish restaurant; standards are high, but so are prices – for a place that’s pitched as an all-day stand-by, we can’t help finding them just a bit OTT. Richard Caring, as we all know, seems to have infinite amounts of […]
In South Kensington, a pleasant and well-spaced country-kitchen-style English bistro, offering no-nonsense food at prices which, at lunch, are notably sensible; service on our visit, though pleasant, was very slow. You feel they really ought to be cooking on an AGA, at this country kitchen-style bistro, on the site of the former Abbaye restaurant in […]
Near Piccadilly Circus, a versatile and attractive Italian restaurant that’s one of the best openings of the year to-date; its ex-Moro team serves up unusual and accomplished Italian dishes, and the wine list is notable too. Some restaurants – like Buddha Bar, or Bob Bob Ricard – burst onto the London stage after months of […]
A chef who trained with Vineet Bhattia produces many dishes of very high quality at this Marylebone Indian – an offshoot, not that you’d know to look at it, of a famous establishment in Mumbai; the devotion to portion-control, however, sometimes verges on absurd. We don’t make any apology for the fact that, like most […]
A grand Chinese restaurant, with impressive panoramic views of Kensington Gardens and, in the distance, of many of London’s major landmarks; duck, served three ways, is the house speciality, but we think the dim sum a more reliable, and better-value, attraction. They make a big deal about duck at this smart Chinese restaurant, on the […]
Just off the top end of Bond Street, a potentially very useful trattoria offshoot of the popular neighbouring Ristorante Semplice; the place seems to have suffered from a curious personality bypass, though, and the food on our visit was very up-and-down. We were excited when we heard that Ristorante Semplice – a Mayfair Italian restaurant […]
A small but smart Fitzrovia offshoot (the first) of the popular and well-established Clapham Japanese establishment of the same name; on our early-days lunch, the food tended to unremarkable. At its best, the food at the long-established Clapham Japanese, of the same name, is very good indeed, so we were rather disappointed by our early-days […]
Just off Trafalgar Square, a rare example, for London, of an establishment focussing on a single product – mozzarella; we don’t think that’s a route to success in this city, and – judging the place simply as a ‘vineria’ or ‘caffetteria’ as which it also advertises itself – we found its other attractions rather difficult […]
