Posted in Alfresco Dining Basque Cheap Eats Counter Dining Good for Groups Informal Molecular Gastronomy No bookings Open Kitchen Pintxos San Sebastian Seafood Spain

San Sebastian Pintxos Tour – The Food Gods’ Are Here!

When I heard that San Sebastián was the holy land for Michelin-starred chefs, boasting more stars per capita than anywhere…

Posted in Alfresco Dining Cantonese Cash only Cheap Eats Chinese Coffee Dim Sum Hawker Centre Informal No bookings Open Kitchen Peranakan Seafood Singapore

Tanglin Halt – Hawker Centre adventure

A hawker centre is a sum of independent traders selling often delicious, inexpensive food items alfresco style and are typically found near…

Posted in Cocktails Counter Dining Good for dates Good for Groups Informal Open Kitchen Singapore Tapas Wine Bar

FOC Off!

FOC Restaurant in Singapore was launched in September 2014 with the mission to bring us diners an experience of contemporary Catalonian…

Posted in Alfresco Dining Cantonese Cash only Cheap Eats Chinese Good for Groups Hawker Centre Informal No bookings Noodles Open Kitchen Singapore

Tiong Bahru Food Market Singapore – Hawker Virginity no more…

Tiong Bahru Market & Food Centre is one of Singapore’s beacons in Hawker Centre culture so coming here was a right…

Posted in Cash only Cheap Eats Curry Indian Open Kitchen Singapore

Al Afrose – Singapore – 5am post cocktail curry sweats

It was 5am local time and with a skinful of booze, Al Afrose seemed like the mothership for the alcoholically…

Posted in 3 Michelin Stars Bookings advisable Cantonese Chinese Counter Dining Formal Hong Kong Molecular Gastronomy Open Kitchen Posh Nosh Tasting Menu Wine pairing

Bo Innovation Review – Hong Kong ‘ ‘X-treme Chinese’ What a way to celebrate a birthday

London born Canadian raised Alvin Leung was an engineer for 20 years before he started cooking in Bo Innoseki in 2003, he…

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Good Hope Noodle Review – Hong Kong

Good Hope Noodle in Mong Kok (HK) has been around since 1971 and it serves up the quintessential Hong Kong…

Posted in Cheap Eats Counter Dining Informal Japanese No bookings Open Kitchen Restaurant Graveyard Seafood Tokyo

Gatten Sushi – Roppongi Tokyo – gone and probably forgotten

Gatten Zushi was a random stop by at Tokyo’s Roppongi’s district which is kinda like how Leicester Square is to…

Posted in 1 Michelin Star Counter Dining Craft beer/ales Informal Japanese Open Kitchen Tokyo Yakitori

Bird Land – Tokyo – Posh Yakitori

I’m no yakitori restaurant expert but after my experience of Pissing Alley the impression was that they were hole-in-the-wall type places,…

Posted in Counter Dining Informal Japanese No bookings Open Kitchen Ramen Tokyo

Rokurinsha – Tokyo Station – aka Tokyo Ramen Street

Rokurinsha which first opened in June 2009 on the fondly named ‘Ramen Street’ should be firmly on the slurp trail…