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Dinerama – The 3rd child of Streetfeast

Dinerama the 2 floored trifecta from street food blazers Street Feast first opens back in June 2015 but goes into a brief hiatus…

Cheap Eats Cocktails Counter Dining Craft beer/ales East End Fried Chicken Informal North of the River Open Kitchen

Chick n Sours – Review (Dalston) It’s fried and it’s good here

In case you didn’t know Chick ‘n’ Sours is a fried chicken restaurant with sour cocktails; ‘like vinegar to chips’…

Cheap Eats Cocktails Counter Dining Curry Indian Informal No bookings Soho Sri Lankan

Hoppers – Revisited (Soho) To all the queue haters, it’s actually worth the wait!

During my first visit to Hoppers just before Christmas 2015 I queued for 30 minutes at 11.30am before their doors opened at…

1 Michelin Star Cocktails Counter Dining Craft beer/ales Formal Great British Chef Jason Atherton Mayfair Modern European Tasting Menu Wine pairing

Pollen Street Social – Review (Mayfair) I finally made it here

Jason Atherton is chef-owner of Michelin-starred Pollen Street Social and was the former chef-patron of One Michelin-starred Maze and Maze Grill of…

Cocktails Craft beer/ales Informal Soho Steak

Blacklock – Review (Soho) Vegetarians please look away

Gordon Ker who previously worked at The Hawksmoor, opened his solo venture on the 16th of February 2015 on 24 Great…

1 Michelin Star Craft beer/ales Fulham Gastropub Informal Modern British South of the River

Harwood Arms – Review (Fulham) – A Gastronomic Boozer

What happens when you combine a chef-patron from a two-Michelin-starred London restaurant to run a boozer in Fulham? A deservedly…

Clapham Cocktails Informal Pop-up South of the River Thai

Farang (Pop-up locations) – Review – Thai Street Food

Chef Seb Holmes’s (try saying that fast 20 times!) Thai cooking credentials started at Peckham’s stalwart The Begging Bowl. He joined…

Bistro Clapham Cocktails Craft beer/ales Informal Modern British Modern European Open Kitchen South of the River Tasting Menu

The Dairy – Review Take two (Clapham)

I first dined in The Dairy in the summer of 2015 and I wasn’t disappointed – this time I’m with my siblings…

Cocktails Counter Dining Craft beer/ales Informal Modern European North of the River Open Kitchen Seafood

Galley – Review (Islington) Brother and sister team throw out the rod

Oriona Robb together with her sibling Marcel Grzyb, the former head chef of 10 years at Soho institution Randall and…

Chinese Dim Sum Informal South of the River Suburbia

Imperial China – Review (Teddington) Dim Sum in the suburbs

Guilty as charged, I’m in the burbs again in Teddington which is also known as the arse-end of no-town for…