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Dislikes: lukewarm soup; rudeness to wait staff; inflicting impeccable ingredients to indifference.
Tag: travel
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Phed Mark London PHED MARK LONDON is Mark Wiens’ restaurant pop-up on the lower ground floor of Platapian on Greek street Soho. I write with urgency: it’s open till the end of May. Not Platapian but Phed Mark. Pronounced Ped Mark. Phed เผ็ด being Thai word for spicy. Why visit a restaurant co-owned by Mark Wiens? Phed…
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IS LE VACHERIN THE BEST FRENCH RESTAURANT in Chiswick, West London? Côte and La Trompette are their sole competitors. Is the answer to this question of interest to anybody at all, besides perhaps, Chiswick and nearby Ealing locals? French Restaurant in London – A Review Meriting 2 AA Rosettes – accompanied by removal from the…
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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…
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My Chinese culinary journey to dim sum stemmed from childhood in Chinatown. Dim sum in London was “served until 3pm” on Gerrard street. This meant, inconveniently jumping off the tube at Leicester Square for a pork or prawn filled dumpling. Dim sum 點心 all day in London and Greater Britain is prolific now. Har Gow…
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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…
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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…
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OUISTREHAM Ft. Funny Fish Date of visit – 22nd October 2025 IF YOU LOVE FRESH SEAFOOD – come to Normandy. Brittany and Normandy, France are synonymous with raising children to eat well, eat oysters. If you don’t believe me, see it for yourself. Take a look at a French school child’s menu in this reason…
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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.…
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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…
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London is England but it’s also, well, London. It’s a City and an expensive one at that. After a trip Tesco where you forgot the one item you intended to buy, what do you eat? In your London flat when you have a craving but no ingredients? Order from Deliveroo or other food delivery apps…