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Made In Camden

Cool for Katz Apple risotto. It’s a bold, swaggering, confident chef that has the temerity to think of putting it on his menu. Dishes like this are almost an unspoken…

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DSTRKT

Back to Skool Vowels. They’re quite useful. I mean, where would we be without them? Up SHT CRK without a PDDL, that’s where. There is a figure bandied around that…

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Casse-Croûte

Bijou Bistro with Bonhomie Can a restaurant be cute? Each time I walk into Casse-Croûte I want to give it a tickle and start cooing dementedly… Hervé Durochat has opened…

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Picture

    The Frame Fits     Picture this. Two Michelin Star experienced Head Chefs open their first solo gig, more casual, collars loosened, cooking the kind of food that…

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Bubbledogs

Grower Champagne Snogs Hot Dog Champagne and hot dogs, eh? That’s where we’re at in London, in the grip of pimped up fast food Americana-esque, buried under a slew of…

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Beagle

The Beagle Has Landed The sheer exhilaration of going to lunch in a former bike shed at Rochelle Canteen in Shoreditch, is that it necessarily is a “take the afternoon…

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Primeur

      ‘Newly produced wines which have recently become available…’     Peering at the blackboard of recently opened Primeur it quickly becomes clear that they give a damn…

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Skewd

Anatolians with Attitude   “What on earth are you doing in Cockfosters”, came the incredulous, softly mocking question. The knee-jerk response – had I offered it – would have run…

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Som Saa

The Real Thing ‘Som Saa:. a variety of citrus fruit used in old-style Thai cookery’ When David Thompson packed his bags for Thailand, closing Nahm in the Halkin Hotelin December…

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STK

American Psycho in London ‘This is not an exit’. American Psycho begins and ends with blood red lettering. The business card for STK London could double for the front cover;…