Upselling Mexican food is harder than it used to be Continue reading
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Guacamoles review – blockbuster tacos at Peckham Rye market
If you know someone sceptical about Mexican food, then this place could be pivotally Damascene in winning them over. Continue reading
Burnt Smokehouse review – the barbecue restaurant in a Leyton railway arch
Apparently the future of restaurants is a lot like the past. Continue reading
Taca Tacos review – the Mexican hole-in-the-wall with an ace in the hole
Come for the tacos; stay for the birria Continue reading
★☆☆☆☆ / Mexican / Vegetarian
Club Mexicana review – a wretched vegan impersonation of Mexican food
The whitewashing at this Kingly Court restaurant is royally screwed up. Continue reading
Taco Bell review – whitewashed Mexican-ish fast food comes to Woolwich
For most British people, their only knowledge of Taco Bell will be from the infamous scenes in Sylvester Stallone’s mildly diverting 1993 sci-fi yarn Demolition Man. In the dystopian future setting of the film, Taco Bell is apparently the *only* restaurant left in the world following the ‘franchise wars of the 1990s’ (as Sandra Bullock’s character explains with a straight face) before inexplicably pivoting to fine dining.
While clearly meant as a cheap joke for American audiences of the time, Taco Bell – like many other fast food franchises – is really a transformational pivot of another kind. Continue reading
La Chingada review – the converted caff dishing up Mexican gems
Previously a small takeaway, this restaurant has not only moved into larger premises around the corner, but has also upped its game. Continue reading
Madera review – the Mexican Treehouse hotel restaurant that’s fallen off its branch
Tacos with views over London, but it’s barely a feast for the eyes Many major cities across the world have restaurants perched on top of tall buildings – quite often rotating ones. Berlin has the TV Tower, while Munich is graced with Olympia Tower and the CN Tower looms over Toronto. However, the rule of … Continue reading
Prairie Fire review – the smoke and fire of American barbecue arrives in White City
But the embers are already flickering out I’ve watched the growth and rise of Prairie Fire with interest and concern. Originally a street food stall with a stint at the original Mercato Metropolitano, this American barbecue restaurant has now found itself a permanent home in a former railway arch in White City across the road … Continue reading
Arcade Food Theatre review – a guide to Centre Point’s shiny new food court
Restaurants, rather than street food, dominate this glossy middle-class cafeteria Arcade Food Theatre is a food court taking up the entire street-level annexe of Centre Point, the Tottenham Court Road skyscraper that everyone loves to hate. Even more unusually for a London food court, Arcade Food Theatre isn’t filled with street food traders. Its stalls … Continue reading
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