Tag: restaurant reviews
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Review: Idalia – Forget a love affair, this modern British restaurant is marriage material
When you find a restaurant that’s elegant but not pretentious, grand but not show-offy, and doesn’t feel like it’s style over substance, you should pat yourself in the back for the extraordinary discovery. Idalia feels like such a precious find that our instinct is to keep this place to ourselves. Luckily, there are 300 seats…
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Review: Banquet88 serves the most homely, filling, and feel-good Cantonese food
The team behind Good Fortune Club – the dim sum institution with outposts in Wimbledon and Ealing that Londoners have been devoted to for years – has gone bigger (and, arguably, better). Banquet 88 has just landed in St Katharine Docks this May, and it means business: 140 covers, a private dining room, stunning water…
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Review: Lokal is a welcome escape from Oxford Street, one mezze at a time
Burak Demirelli has form. The restaurateur behind Faros – the Mediterranean-Italian restaurant that has become one of central London’s most reliably loved spots, with two packed-out sites in Holborn and Oxford Circus — and Fred Bakery, the viennoiserie destination that Londoners were making pilgrimages to before it even had a second location, knows how to…
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Review: Holy Carrot Bistro is the holy grail of vegetarian food, and it puts non-veggie restaurants to shame
Vegetarians walk into restaurants like battle-hardened soldiers who already know the terrain. While their meat-eating companions settle in for an odyssey of options, they brace themselves for the inevitable: a grilled cauliflower, an asparagus risotto if luck is on their side, and the feeling of mild humiliation for not really being wanted there. Give them…
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Review: Mitsu is refined and utterly alluring – the new see-and-be-seen sushi spot
London’s sushi scene has long been a tale of two extremes: the grab-and-go conveyor belt, or the soulless chain. Neither particularly compelling if you’re looking to impress someone, or simply after a swanky night out. And there hasn’t been a truly noteworthy sushi launch in the capital for a while. The short version, and the…
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Review: Chargal welcomes you like family – a really posh Turkish family, that is
Chargal – the name a compression of charcoal and mangal, the Turkish word for grill – is the latest project from Serdar Demir, the restaurateur behind The Mantl in Knightsbridge, a man who has spent the better part of 25 years thinking seriously about what modern Turkish dining in London could and should look like. The answer,…
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Review: Bancone City is Italy in all its glory – ballsy, bold and beautiful. As close to Rome as it gets
It starts, as so many minor life crises do, with a photo on the internet. The silk handkerchief pasta – technically fazzoletti, those impossibly thin, folded sheets of fresh pasta draped in walnut butter and pooling around a confit egg yolk – is one of those images you encounter once and simply can’t get out of…
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Review: Workshop Cafe & Academy – The beloved London roaster is back with excellent coffee and real neighbourhood charm
If you’ve ever wandered through Eccleston Yards on a Saturday morning -takeaway cup in hand, feeling inexplicably smug about your postcode – you’ll already understand the particular energy of this corner of Belgravia. It’s one of those eclectic London areas that feels both genuinely neighbourhood-y and semi-aspirational: independent boutiques, café terraces, and the kind of crowd that…
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Review: Sova is a heartfelt love letter to Eastern European wine – and it arrived at the right time
The beginning of April saw a number of exciting restaurants blossom – and even in the midst of some loud voices at the table – Sova managed to be heard. Meaning “owl” in several Slavic languages, Sova is the new Eastern European restaurant/bar to land in Ladbroke Grove, taking over the old ZIMA Notting Hill…
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We tried Tamila, the new South Indian hotspot in Soho – here’s what you should order
Described by the founders as a “modern curry house,” Tamila has had an impressively swift growth trajectory. From a street food stall at Hackney Bridge in 2021 to three permanent outposts by 2026, its expansion points to a clear appetite for a more contemporary, distinctly British-Indian way of eating. Helmed by Tamil chef Prince Durairaj…
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