Restaurant & Bar Reviews

Aug
23

Restaurant Review: Odettes, Primrose Hill

by Gareth Groves

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I’d make a rubbish restaurant review blogger. For a start, I’m useless with a camera and always feel embarrased when I do take photos in restaurants. I just feel bad stopping my friends from diving in to their scallops starter while I snap away merrily. All of which is my excuse for illustrating this post with a photo nicked for Odette’s website rather than …

Jun
18

Top 10 Tips for a Greener Restaurant

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By Jamie Ford

Quite rightly ‘Green Issues’ are increasingly on the forefront of people’s minds. Questions arise such as:

How can we be more environmentally friendly?
How can we make sure our lives and business’ are sustainable?
Has my chicken burger been organically farmed?

Sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start. So I took it upon myself to compile a list of tips that would help restaurants who were wanting …

Jun
11

Bottle Apostle

By Denise Medrano, http://winesleuth.wordpress.com

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In Italy, it’s commonplace to find enomatic machines in wine shops but the trend is still catching on here in London. There are only a few places I know of that have those machines on tap, so to speak. The Sampler in Islington and Kensington Wine Room being the two I can name off the top of my head. And now I can …

Jun
02

Shaka-Zulu South African cuisine & wine

By Steve Evans, http://awinemerchantslife.blogspot.com/

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Today I visited Shaka-Zulu the new South African Zulu restaurant which opens in June. Michael Clark (ex sommelier now Shaka-Zulu project manager) and I have just finalised the 100 bin all South African still wine list and I’ve had the chance to see the fit out progress at the site. This included my first real life glimpse of the £2 million worth of …

Apr
19

The Primrose Bakery…A Pretty Tasty Place

By The Little Welsh, http://www.thelittlewelsh.blogspot.com/

Primrose Bakery

Primrose Bakery

A few weeks ago I ventured out to investigate another of London’s many trendy bakeries, having previously visited The Hummingbird Bakery…and Greggs (don’t think that one counts…). If you’ve read my previous blog post on The Hummingbird Bakery, you will know that I was not huuuuuuuuugely impressed, yes the branch I visited was in fashionable Soho …

Apr
07

The Harwood Arms

By Mathilde Delville, http://mathildescuisine.wordpress.com/

Famous Scotch eggs and wine

Famous Scotch eggs and wine

IT was a rainy night. The kind of rainy and cold night where you suddenly feel that wearing high heels and forgetting your umbrella at the office were far from being your smartest choices of the day.

All the girls will picture those two actors kissing under the rain, as if nothing could …

Mar
12

Red Pepper Cafe

By Gal Zohar

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Restaurateurs are a strange breed. While some enjoy the spotlight and will do just about anything to let us know they exist, others are MI5 agents. They live amongst us but we won’t even know it. They can be anywhere at any given moment, possibly having lunch right next to us, listening to every comment we make. Their invisibility is somehow their strength.

Bijan is …

Mar
10

Lola&Simon:New Zealand, Argentina & Malbec

By Denise Medrano, http://winesleuth.wordpress.com

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wine flight menu

I lived in Buenos Aires for 3 years back in the day so I know a bit about Argentine cuisine, even if I was a vegetarian for 2 of those 3  years. Yes, I know, how could I, was I mad, etc… One thing I can say is that I’m a pretty good judge of Argentine …

Mar
09

Restaurant Review: Bistrot Bruno Loubet

by Gareth Groves

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I hadn’t had a decent lunch in ages. I mean a proper lunch, one with three courses and red wine and at least the possibility of some cheese. In fact, it had been months: Christmas, January credit card bills and the cold had been getting in the way of serious eating.

That all changed with one absent minded click that took me from …

Jan
29

Dedication is what you need

By Gal Zohar

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Working  in  restaurants for so many years has made its impact on me. Some things just stick forever. Each time I’m in a restaurant it’s the same story all over again.  I just can’t help it. Cant help organizing and straightening the glasses, cutlery and plates to perfect symmetry. I always notice the drinks on the bar waiting to be served. I feel slightly uncomfortable when all the plates don’t …

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