Tag: recipes

  • Joy King Lau – China town London

    MY LOVE OF DIM SUM transports me to where it started. Not just my love of dim sum. Chinese food, Chinese Cantonese food in London. Cantonese classics like yum cha. Giles Coren once said “I love Chinese food above all things”. You know, as he does. Before going on to say: “Indeed, if I lived in…

  • Date of visit: 1st January 2026 THE CÔTE BRASSERIE WAS SOLD to the Karali Group in late 2025 so it was to be expected that this 2007 born French-style, British restaurant chain founded in Wimbledon by Richard Caring et al would see changes. Changes in menu, at the very least, as the Karali Group also…

  • Eat Tokyo – Notting Hill London

    THE MENU AT EAT TOKYO in Notting Hill is an encyclopaedia. It’s also hard to find online. I’m not averse to photo filled long menu. I like to read, menus included. I used to study here, in Notting Hill, not this authentic Japanese restaurant. This was when literature was respected. Books were a gift. Reading…

  • Maxim Restaurant London Review

    LOVE OF SPECIFIC FOOD TEXTURES is as subjective as taste. In Cantonese cuisine, for example, there is a desired contrast in textures of bouncy, in tandem with a crispy mouthfeel. Something slippery or slimy like an oyster or rice cake can dim the light of a palate unaccustomed to it. The best wok hei flavour.…

  • Boro Bistro, London

    Boro Bistro review – date of visit Saturday October 2025 Boro Bistro review Under the bridge and down the steps, en-route Borough Market, a perpendicular swivel to your right finds you enface an alleyway. There you find a courtyard leased out to indoor crazy golf and Boro Bistro. I would say, follow the fairy lights…