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What are the most delicious bargains in the capital?
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Knightsbridge
British, Food 5/5, Price £28 set lunch or about £40 a la carte, Atmosphere 5*/5, website Before we start, I urge you to pick up the phone or go online and make a reservation for this restaurant. There’s no point in delaying your experience any further than the already long wait that’s usually necessary to get a […]
Princi, Soho
April 25, 2011
Café, Food 3/5, Price about £10 for a meal, Atmosphere 1/5 Princi’s interior food and waiting staff all look beautiful. Who cares about substance when we have looks? What is a bit of a problem is how busy this place is. It’s impossible to sit down straight away and even after you’ve resorted to the un-British […]
London’s Best Bagel Part Two-Brick Lane
April 24, 2011
Beigel Bake (159 Brick Lane), plain bagel 25p salt beef bagel £3.50, 4/5 Beigel Shop (155 Brick Lane), plain bagel 25p salt beef bagel £3.40, 3/5 The first Jewish area in London wasn’t Golders Green, Stoke Newington or Hendon but Brick Lane. As a self-confessed bagel addict with an average bagel consumption rate of 15/week, […]
The Best Chelsea Buns@Flour Station, Borough Market
April 24, 2011
Bakery, 5*/5, Price £2.50 for a Chelsea Bun, website These Chelsea Buns are simply amazing. They’re incredibly dense but soft, packed full of currants and really buttery – the best pastry to grace Borough Market. I make a beeline for these every time I go. The BBC recipe for Chelsea buns calls for 40g of […]
William Curley, Belgravia
April 7, 2011
Food 3/5, Price ~£3 per cake, Atmosphere 2/5 William A Curley is an overrated, posh chocolatier in overrated, posh Belgravia supplying overrated, posh restaurants. Most of my feeds on Google Reader are from food blogs and chocolate blogs, so I’d read a lot about Curley’s new products – posh versions of classic chocolate confections. I […]
Bavarian Beerhouse, Hackney
April 7, 2011
German Pub, Food 4/5, Price £10 a head for a suckling pig party, Atmosphere 4/5, website The Bavarian Beerhouse have an amazing feasting menu for parties of specifically 20-25 people, where you can share an entire roasted suckling pig and heaps of Bavarian dishes for around £10 a head. It’s a complete bargain for the […]
Vy Nam Café, Finchley
April 7, 2011
Vietnamese, Food 3-4/5, Price ~£15 for starter/main, Waiting time ~5 mins, Atmosphere 3/5 , website A very good local Vietnamese restaurant, which offers great value for money and some standout dishes. Admittedly, I wouldn’t go more than a couple of stops on the tube out of the way to eat here, but it’s now my […]
Saki, Farringdon
March 3, 2011
Japanese, Food 5/5, Price ~£30 for three courses £58 for five, Waiting time 5 to 10 mins between courses, Atmosphere 4/5 , website Being Japanese, and a half decent cook, with a mother who’s an excellent cook, I rarely dine out at Japanese restaurants. Saki is a big exception – its food is authentic and […]
Haché, Chelsea
February 20, 2011
Burger joint, Food 4/5, Price ~£12 for a burger and fries, Waiting time 10 to 15 mins, Atmosphere 3/5 , website The ongoing Haché or Byron debate has continued to divide Londoners. If you’re a vegetarian, you’d say Haché. Their falafel sweetcorn burger with beetroot is the only vegetarian dish that I’d ever order and […]
Bodean’s
February 20, 2011
American barbeque, Food 5/5, Price £10 for main with chips, Atmosphere 3/5 website Bodean’s serves incredible, slow-cooked, smoky meat from their “oak-burning smoke pit” – lots and lots of it too. They barbeque chicken wings, burnt ends (slow-cooked beef brisket in BBQ sauce), pulled pork, three different kinds of ribs.. the list goes on. The US diner-style restaurants are […]
Aki Eats 
April 30, 2011
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