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Counter Dining Good for dates Informal London Bridge Open Kitchen Portuguese

Bar Douro Review – London Bridge

Tucked inside a railway arch within London Bridge’s Flat Iron Square, you’ll find Bar Douro, a splendid 35-cover Portuguese restaurant,…

Bistro Counter Dining Gastronoughts Good for dates Informal London Bridge Modern British Open Kitchen Wine Bar

Lupins Review – Sunshine Food

Lupins of Union Street opened in May 2017 and they are a sage nod to cooking small plates with exclusively…

Cheap Eats Counter Dining Craft beer/ales Good for dates Hoxton Informal Italian Open Kitchen Pasta

Via Emilia By Roots Review – The speciality of the house are the gnoccho fritto, a crimped bread in the shape of pillows fried until it puffs up

The team from Food roots opens Via Emilia in November 2017. I lifted this from their website: “Necessarily quality comes with authenticity;…

Barbeque Cheap Eats Cocktails Counter Dining Fulham Good for Groups Indian Informal No bookings Open Kitchen Pizza Smoked meats Thai Turkish

Market Halls Fulham …I did my best in covering as much as I could at the old Fulham Broadway Station’s old ticketing office.

Pizza, regional Thai, a deli, kebabs, buttermilk fried chicken, poké, BBQ, Indian street food and ice cream all under one…

1 Michelin Star Counter Dining Good for dates Good for Groups Informal No bookings Open Kitchen Seafood Spain Steak Tapas

Sabor Review – A tapas titan in London

I recall the many engrossing nights perched on the bar at the original Barrafina on Frith Street that has been…

Alfresco Dining Bao Cheap Eats Counter Dining East End Hackney Informal Open Kitchen

Bao Netil Market – Trust me, I don’t get money for blowing smoke up their bums, what they make is delicious, which is exactly what you want.

Bao’s creators are Erchen Chang and siblings Shing Tat and Wai Ting Chung. They first launched in 2012, taking buns…

Cheap Eats Counter Dining Informal Japanese Open Kitchen Ramen

Shoryu Shoreditch Review …”Shoryu Ramen by tradition champions thick and creamy broths which taste like a 12 hour indulgent yield of slow bubbling pork parts”

Once upon a time Soho was the place that peddled soup in noodles. Bone Daddies, Tonkotsu and of course Shoryu…

Bistro Counter Dining Craft beer/ales Good for dates Informal Modern British Soho Wine Bar

Duck Soup Soho Review – they have wandered the world, discovering many cooking styles

Ducksoup, a 40 cover datenight-ish Soho gem is run by Clare Lattin, Rory McCoy and Julian Biggs. All alumni of…

Cocktails Counter Dining Craft beer/ales Gastronoughts Good for dates Indian Informal Open Kitchen Soho

Kricket – Soho – Being different on the food front is the feather in the restaurants cap

Kricket on the face of it seems like the well-worn sock of all cliches. Once upon a time they were…

Basque Counter Dining Covent Garden Good for dates Informal No bookings Open Kitchen Tapas

Barrafina Drury Lane Review… I can’t think of better ways right now to spend calories for my money

I first came to Barrafina Drury Lane a couple of weeks into their opening in the summer of 2015, then…