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Los Caracoles review – eating snails in Barcelona

Posted on March 25, 2012 by pickyglutton • Leave a comment

This review of a Barcelona restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage. Los Caracoles is one of those Barcelona restaurants that tends to crop up in all the guidebooks, so it wasn’t surprising that the place was heaving with tourists on the weekday evening of my visit with The Jolly Giant … Continue reading →

★★★★★ / Italian / Pizza

Franco Manca Chiswick review – pizza redemption in West London

Posted on August 22, 2011 by pickyglutton • 3 Comments

Cheap pizza done right. Pizza isn’t usually something I eat at restaurants. Apart from the fact that I eat enough of the stuff at house parties and late nights at the office, the stuff is rarely done well. If there’s one place I will sit down for a pizza however, it’s Franco Manca. The original … Continue reading →

★★★☆☆ / Spanish

La Bola review – one trick pony?

Posted on July 10, 2011 by pickyglutton • Leave a comment

This review of a Madrid restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage. La Bola is just a stone’s throw away from Madrid’s opera house and the official residence of the Spanish royal family so it gets more than its fair share of tourists. Other than the staggering number of non-Spaniards passing … Continue reading →

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