Monsieur Le Duck, Spitalfields
I am in two minds about one-dish restaurants.
My favourite 11 indie London businesses for gifts
Don’t spend your money at tax-dodging multinationals if you can help it this Christmas. Here are eleven independent London businesses that sell stellar gifts, each of which I can personally recommend.
Gamma Gamma, Soho
Gamma Gamma, so good they named it twice…even if it sounds more like Peter Parker’s favourite soda fountain than a sophisticated Soho restaurant.
In praise of not always photographing your food
Do you know the unfettered loveliness of going out and having a meal without Instagramming everything you shove into your gaping maw?
London’s most overrated restaurants: a memoir
London is full of amazing restaurants but there will always be some places that you Just Don’t Get, even though everyone else seems to love them. And that’s okay. These are mine.
Eleven courses and sake pairing at Sakagura Mayfair
The best thing about getting older is having the money – and wisdom – to buy decent booze. Wine, for instance, was my tipple of choice as a cash-strapped student only because it offered the most bang for one’s buck, i.e. you could get absolutely shit-faced on it with change from a tenner. A decade […]
Bucket, Notting Hill, has shellfish in spades
The last time I had food in a bucket was ten years ago when the fanciest hangover cure in town was a bucket of curly fries from Varsity, the sixth worst restaurant in Loughborough according to TripAdvisor at the time of writing. That is below Loughborough Baptist Church, which apparently has some sort of tuck […]
Dim Sum Sundays at Hakkasan are better than brunch
I am not an anxious person, but I do get a deep feeling of unknown dread every time anyone asks me for a restaurant recommendation. The fear is that someone will go somewhere I suggest, and hate it. After all, eating out in London isn’t cheap, and I’d be mortified if someone dropped their hard-earned […]
London’s best daytime hen do activities
One of the most curious phenomena of the modern age is the rise of the multi-day, multi-activity hen do. Long gone are the days of a single night out in the local boozer, and not just because all the local boozers have shut down to be replaced with adult ball pits, cereal cafes and other […]
Small plates from the sea at Chicama, Chelsea
A few years ago I had my birthday brunch at Pachamama, Marylebone, where we gorged on ceviche and the (justifiably) much-hyped Pan Con Chicharrón burgers, and my housemate James got so drunk on pisco punch he accidentally broke our mate Chris’s arm.
