a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in Italian, Italy, London, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, wine on Oct 19th, 2009
I was in Venice for only one day last year, which left no time to explore the local bacari or traditional taverns of the city. It was also so overrun with tourists that I was quite happy to return to Bologna at the end of the day. However, a bacaro by the name of Polpo [...]
Posted in China, Chinese, Hunan, London, Taiwanese, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, wine on Jun 8th, 2009
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For about the last two years, ever since she discovered it, my London-based Taiwanese friend has been trying to persuade me to eat at Hunan. I knew very little about it until I finally decided to go with her and her partner. It’s a Taiwanese family-run restaurant, located near Sloane Square, and has been around [...]
Posted in Japanese, London, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, wine on Apr 4th, 2009
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Roka on Charlotte Street has been on my London favourite restaurants list for a while now (read previous review). As I haven’t been back in four years however, I thought I’d better make sure it was still deserving of its place on the list. A fellow foodie, who has also eaten at Roka before, didn’t [...]
Posted in London, Michelin star, Modern European, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, wine on Mar 22nd, 2009
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I recently decided to tidy up the categories on my London restaurant reviews page and as a result, discovered several restaurants I fancied revisiting. Arbutus (click for previous review) was one of them. I’ve only been once, for the set lunch which they were offering long before the credit crunch, and gave it a relatively [...]
Posted in London, dining out, food, meat, restaurant review, restaurants, wine on Mar 4th, 2009
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I was recently invited to have dinner at The Butcher’s Block, a private dining room at the Malmaison London Brasserie, and write a review about it. Even though the meal was complimentary, I was nevertheless very conscious of the need to treat it exactly like any other meal that I would have paid for myself. [...]
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