London Restaurants - The essential UK restaurant guide for eating out in London
London Restaurants - The essential UK restaurant guide for eating out in London
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You would think, with all the up-and-coming development of King’s Cross and Euston that it would be easier than ever to find somewhere decent to eat. You would think. But unless you’re committed to searching the back streets – which still aren’t terr...
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You may not have noticed but there has been something of an upset in the world of chefs. In his bid to ‘Ramsay-fy’ every pub and hotel in London, New York and, seemingly, the world, Gordon has managed to make his cheffy brethren homeless with his buy...
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Everyone these days pretty much knows the hot places to see and be seen; those places where the glitterati and literati are perfectly at ease in their preferred environment and can safely be found if ever you needed to find one. So it’s easy to forge...
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Let’s face it, once you reach a certain age, pubs start to lose whatever appeal they once had. It’s hard to find somewhere to have a quiet drink with friends without having to defend your table from the next-door hen party or the leering footie fans ...
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These days we’re all terribly concerned about authenticity. To succeed, a restaurant should really only offer the cooking and ingredients of its native country, sourcing locally and seasonally, and naming bits of meat and vegetables alike (provenance...
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After the horrors of fusion and gastropub-itis, finally British cooking has reached a kind of equilibrium, a balance within itself. There are now a growing number of restaurants out there recognising not only that provenance, sustainability and local...
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Pizza is a highly contentious issue. When it comes down to it, you’re in one of two camps. Either you’re a die-hard traditionalist, espousing the benefits of the thin, blistered crust with simple, minimal toppings – the idea of pineapple on your pizz...
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The advent of Trinity (welcome back Adam Byatt) and now Four O Nine shows that Clapham is once more set to be a destination worth a visit from any corner of London. Although it’s always been particularly bar-friendly, Clapham has never really provide...
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There’s a real feel at the moment for the 1970s. A culinary nostalgia for the old classics - you know, a proper prawn cocktail with Iceberg lettuce and a slightly headachey Marie Rose sauce; or Steak Diane with lashing of cream; or even good old Blac...
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Breakfast is officially the new brunch, which was the new lunch, which might have been the new dinner, which is essentially a way of saying you can now eat all day and always be right on trend – hooray! Anyway, what this does mean for all you lucky L...
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Chiswick is particularly blessed with shining examples of places to while away a Saturday afternoon. There seems to be a new restaurant opening up every other week, and such high calibre too What about the star-studded High Road Brasserie, recently o...
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London probably has one of the fastest-paced, most mercurial restaurant scenes in the world. It’s hard keeping up with new openings every 10 seconds, and harder trying to get even a sniff of a seat at the new Ivy or Wolseley or St Alban’s, or whereve...
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One of the nicest, undiscovered areas of London is Crouch End, situated just above Finsbury Park in the north. Perhaps the lack of a central tube station contributes to the secluded village-y atmosphere, but it’s a certain fact that if it’s tricky to...
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Surely restaurants must be some of the least eco-friendly institutions around – food waste, useless packaging, imported produce, water and wine (all those air miles), endless generators chugging out fumes. But there’s a bright light emerging on the h...
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Embankment is generally a funny place to find somewhere to eat. There’s a plethora of options inland, but why wouldn’t you want the added extra of those fabulous views over Big Ben and Westminster? Luckily for them, Read This Article
What is it with the summer and eating out? When the sun is shining, any and every place with even the most cursory outside seating, be it on pavement, traffic island or cliff-top precipice, will be packed from 6 o’clock onwards, and you have to sweat...
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Twickenham doesn’t perhaps sing out to the restaurant-goer with the same siren call of nearby Richmond or Chiswick. More synonymous in the minds of non-Twickenham dwellers with brawny rugby fans and copious vats of lager, this pretty village is shaki...
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While we’ve all been lounging around enjoying the sunshine and drinking rosé like the good Mediterranean folk we’d all secretly like to be, there’s been some movin’ and shakin’ in the restaurant world. Usually, openings happen one or two at a time in...
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Finding somewhere to eat in the City can often be a rather fraught activity. Although places like Canteen and other restaurants around the Spitalfields area, with their more relaxed, inclusive feel, have now taken the image of city dining past vision...
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With the arrival of summer, all those pubs and restaurants which cling desperately on to their deserted, costly gardens and terraces throughout the seemingly everlasting winter are duly rewarded. The whole country happily convinces itself we are sudd...
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There are some restaurants that just look as though they are destined for success, and Dine is one of them. Fresh from Michelin-starred Roussillon, Chef Thomas Han last year ope...
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Delicatessens have come a long way, baby. Where there was once neon-pink glowing ham, some delicately sweating industrial cheddar and a packet of Ryvita from 1983 at the back of the shelf, you can now find the best olive oil, waxy logs of melting con...
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Every now and then, a restaurant can be so perfect, you just want to keep it secret from everyone else. No. 5 Cavendish Square is just such a place. A Grade II-listed Georgian t...
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For many of us, still saving the pennies after the Xmas splurge, now is simply not the time to be shelling out on fancy food. And let’s face it, when you’re out and about, shopping, going to the cinema and doing anything else that makes your wallet w...
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With all his recent TV appearances, Richard Corrigan, the Bono of the kitchen, has been teetering on the brink of ‘sleb chefdom. But this celebrity chef really does have some major credentials to back it up, namely the Michelin-starred Read This Article
With winter nights drawing in, the food we eat changes -- we need, and want, the equivalent of a big culinary hug. Comfort food becomes our raison d’être, and those warm, welcoming stodgy offerings are, quite frankly, a blessed antidote to the ‘oh-no...
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Hotel restaurants can be funny places: Lone diners dotted around the place like nervous impala on the Serengeti, lights bright enough to guide in any small passing aircraft. Gordon Ramsay and his kin apart, they can be a depressing experience for the...
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As the nights draw in, and the evenings get a little cool, our primeval, caveman needs are not so easily suppressed -- shelter, warmth, light. . .and meat. Lots of it. Luckily, London is blessed with plenty of places to appeal to the inner carnivore ...
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Maze is a new outpost of Gordon Ramsay's culinary empire, and its cook, Jason Atherton, is one of Gordon Ramsay's protegés - or perhaps prodigies would be a better word. Atherton, who until recently worked at La Verre, Ramsay's restaurant in Dubai, a...
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At last summer's here, and suddenly everyone's looking for tables outdoors. Whether it's on the pavement, in a quiet courtyard, by the canal, the river or in the park, there are plenty of wonderful places to eat al fresco all over London if you know ...
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