'Review' Category
The Chinese meal: Red Bar and Restaurant
It’s been a bit of a roller-coaster ride of excitement and disappointment (but mainly excitement) with this place. Let me explain.
Much anticipation ensued when we spotted a newly-opened Chinese restaurant around the corner from my work earlier this year. Brick Lane has more restaurants than you could shake a stick at, but has lacked a [...]The Argentine meal – Buen Ayre
As gluttonous food bloggers, we’ve experienced some pretty excessive meals. While it’s not unusual for us to leave restaurants in danger of bursting, there have been a few particularly extreme cases—stumbling home after multi-course feasts at Lemonia and the Old Justice, for example, I’ve sworn never to eat again.
In Broadway Market’s Buen Ayre, though, we [...]The Greek Cypriot Meal: Lemonia
One of the problems with a blog like ours is how to truly taste one country’s cuisine via a two-course meal (or three if we’re particularly hungry). Lemonia had a solution to this problem—its mixed meze option, which showcases a huge portion of its Greek Cypriot menu. For £18.50 a head, they gave us pretty [...]
The Hong Kong meal: Golden Pagoda
I must admit to feelings of inexperience when picking out a place to eat dim sum in London. Reading reviews, it seems that opinions are strongly held on quality and authenticity within this rather tasty sub-genre of Chinese cuisine.
Not being sure to know an authentic dim sum dish from a chichi western imitation, we called [...]The Iranian meal: Mahdi
I passed by this (then) inconspicuous-looking restaurant many times when I went to secondary school down the road, but it wasn’t until long afterwards that I decided to try it. Since my first visit some three years ago, Mahdi has established itself as one of my favourite restaurants.
That said, there’s one thing that I’ve [...]The Czech meal: Czechoslovak National House
Ever since Daniel moved to West Hampstead there’s been talk of eating at the nearby Czechoslovak National House. Based in a large detached house on West End Lane, it’s been home to London’s Czech émigrés since the late 30s, and (so Daniel would have us believe) became quite a hotbed of espionage in the [...]
Bonus meal: Circus Eats
A few weeks ago I posted about the special tasting menu unveiled for two nights at Stratford’s Circus Eats in honour of the East festival. Described as a modern East End seven course meal accompanied by specially-chosen international drinks, it looked like a great event. But it also looked like it would be crazy for [...]
The Georgian meal: Tbilisi
Meals like our meal at Tbilisi are exactly the reason we started this blog. The food was maybe the most unpredictable we’ve tried so far, and the wine, coming from a country that claims to have invented the drink, was just as interesting. Plus, the presence of a few new additions to our group of [...]
The Turkish meal: 19 Numara Bos Cirrik 1
Like many an Englishman, my first encounters with Turkish food had me wolfing down a pita full of chicken shish on the way home from the pub. Like the curry and the Chinese takeaway, the kebab—served by Turks more often than not—has become quite a fixture in our fast food landscape, almost as English [...]
The Canadian Meal: The Maple Leaf
There’s one thing that embarrasses me a bit about being Canadian, aside from our prime minister and our pathetic film and television industries. Canadian food—or the lack of it. Toronto is a carnival of exotic cuisines, but for a taste of the uniquely Canadian, what can you get besides Timbits, butter tarts and the masses [...]
