Informal | GRUBSTANCE - Part 20

Alfresco Dining Craft beer/ales Gastropub Informal South of the River Steak Surrey

Wotton Hatch Review – a country pub in Surrey

When you’re famished after a mountain bike ride in the Surrey Hills, all you may want to do is eat…

Bistro Cocktails Craft beer/ales French Great British Chef Informal Jason Atherton Mayfair Wine Bar

Little Social – Review (Mayfair) Time To Impress The Clients!

I first came here back in March earlier this year with an old school mate and had an outrageous time….

Alfresco Dining Borough Market Cash only Cheap Eats Chinese Coffee East End Informal No bookings North of the River Seafood

Gastro Day – Dumplings, Coffee, Pastel De Nata, Scotch Eggs And A Crab Bao!

The brief for Gastro days is simple – walk from place to place (you will burn more calories and therefore…

Alfresco Dining Basque Cocktails Counter Dining Informal Marylebone Open Kitchen Seafood Steak Tapas Wine Bar

Lurra – Review (Marylebone) Basque in London

So what’s Lurra about? It’s a Basque inspired charcoal & wood fired dining spot which features its own wine cellar, oak…

Alfresco Dining Asian Bao Barbeque Cheap Eats Cocktails Craft beer/ales East End Informal Italian No bookings Street Feast Wine Bar

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…

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…