Chef James Cochran will celebrate Burns Night at 12:51 in Islington with a five-course tasting menu drawing on his Scottish roots. Cochran’s menu includes two drinks, a Boulevardier cocktail and, later, a Scotch, and begins with treacle cured salmon with smoked cod’s roe, which is garnished with apple, radish, mustard, cress on rye. The menu […]

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1251, London N1 Jimi Famurewa for The Evening Standard ventured to Islington and James Cochran’s new restaurant, who has “once again plundered his Scottish and Saint Vincent heritage (plus the influence of a childhood in Whitstable)”. A “Kentish-Scots-Caribbean” blend may sound like “the stuff of a disastrous ‘fusion cuisine’”, but in Cochran’s hand ” it […]

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Five stars for Andrew Wong’s new City restaurant in The Evening Standard from Fay Maschler. She admits to feeling “proprietorial” about the chef, having been the first to review his reincarnation of his parents Pimlico restaurant in 2012, delighting in the ” skill, wit, inventiveness, subversion and astonishment” of the dim sum (and, yes, she squeezes […]

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