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Cora Pearl Review Covent Garden

The squad who gave us the stellar Kitty Fisher’s in Mayfair have opened their second restaurant, Cora Pearl, of Covent Garden…

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STK Review – The Strand

My first experience of STK was in the Meat Packing District of New York in 2012 during a gorgeous May…

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Five Guys Review – Covent Garden & Oxford Circus. We hunker down and shovel slabs of moo covered in viscous American cheese..

Over the years I have wondered past Five Guys of Covent Garden on numerous occasions and wondered what the queues…

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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…

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Henrietta Hotel – Ollie Woz Ere

I first dined Ollie Dabbous’s self named Dabbous back in October 2013 and was easily blown away by the goodness….

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The Barbary Review – Some of London’s Greatest Eating Pleasures can be had here

The Barbary is neatly placed in the quaintly cobbled Neal’s Yard. It’s the sister to the much lauded Palomar, which I…

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Frenchie – Review – Revisited

I said Frenchie was a bistro in a sharp suit during my first appraisal and I stand by that. It’s…

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Eat Native – Hunted and Gathered.

Eat Native’s Head Chef Ivan Tisdall-Downe, a graduate of Hugh Fearnley Wittingstall’s River Cottage Chef School and student of New…

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Birthdays should always involve good restaurants.. Portland for lunch and Frenchie for dinner? Yes Please!

What do you do when you’re tasked with organising a day and night of restaurants for a friend’s birthday? You…

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Frenchie – Review (Covent Garden) – a bistro with a sharp suit? Trés Bon!

Greg Marchand opens “Frenchie” in February this year, a name coined for him by Jamie Oliver when he was the…