Speedboat Bar Notting Hill review – loud Thai food worth shouting about
Punchy, varied and characterful Thai food is a hill worth dying on.
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Terroirs review – Heaven on a plate
Superb French food and wine in an unlikely location Update 4/06/2021 – this restaurant has now closed You could easily pass by Terroirs and miss it. A wine bar located on an anonymous side street off the Strand right next to an exit from the Charing Cross Tube station seems an unlikely place to find … Continue reading
Leong’s Legends Continues review – A small piece of Taiwan in London
For most people Chinese food means the familiar anglicised staples such as sweet and sour pork and chow mein. Saavier Londoners have moved on to more authentic, interesting and healthier dishes. The traditionally Cantonese-dominated restaurants have been making way for eateries serving food from the other regions of China – the country is almost double … Continue reading
Kopapa review – breakfast done right?
If you’ve been following this blog then you’ll know that I’ve been on the hunt for an affordable and filling, yet gastronomically interesting breakfast for some time now. I may have found it at Kopapa, a cafe/restaurant in the Seven Dials part of London’s Covent Garden. One of the most important parts of any breakfast … Continue reading
The Larder review – Power Lunching or Powerless Munching?
A Modern European restaurant with an Australian twist. I feel mildly sorry for any City restaurant that happens to be on the same street as the celebrated St John Bar and Restaurant, a celebrated 17-year old fine dining institution. The Larder is one such restaurant, only a few yards away from St John. Whereas St … Continue reading
Tipping by John Lithgow and the Reservoir Dogs
Tipping after a restaurant meal involves an intricate web of complex economic issues and social mores. Many of us will remember the deftly articulate (and profanity-laden) discussion on the issue in the prologue to Reservoir Dogs. A less well-known alternative method of tipping was demostrated by Dick Solomon (John Lithgow to his friends) in hit-and-miss … Continue reading
Villandry review – Poor quality and insultingly overpriced
Finding a bad restaurant in London is actually pretty hard. The diabolically bad restaurants don’t survive long in London’s commercially competitive environment and most of us have the good sense to avoid the merely awful ones, such as the tourist traps like the Angus chain of steakhouses. What’s left are the sea of mediocre and … Continue reading
S&M Cafe – British comfort food in Islington
It’s like pub food, but without the pub. Update 3/1/14 – this restaurant has now closed I love haute cuisine and fine dining, but sometimes, especially after a long day at the office, all I want is something comforting and soothing to eat. The S&M Cafe could be just the thing. The ‘S&M’ in S&M Cafe … Continue reading
★★★★☆ / Indian / South Asian
Cinnamon Kitchen review – No poppadoms here
Ignore the City boys and concentrate on the skilful, modern Indian cooking. Indian food has become so popular in Britain that it’s almost become a caricature of itself. Thankfully there are plenty of enterprising chefs and proprietors willing to innovate with the curries and grills that we’re all so familiar with and give us something … Continue reading
Tsunami review – Japanese food with style?
I’m a great fan of Japanese food, as you may be able to tell from the number of times Japanese cuisine has appeared on The Picky Glutton, if only because I can stuff my fat face without feeling too guilty about it. London has a large array of Japanese restaurants ranging from those that are … Continue reading
Byron review – a chain burger that’s actually good
I’m usually very suspicious of chain restaurants. They either serve up bland, uninteresting food or they’re just plain bad. An exception to this rule of awfulness is Byron, a growing chain of burger restaurants all scattered throughout London. Charlie Brooker at The Guardian has his own inimitable take on burgers and chain restaurants. I’ve been … Continue reading
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