Category : What we’re eating

Brigadiers 1 – 5 Bloomberg Arcade London EC4N 8AR 020 3319 8140 brigadierslondon.com This restaurant is a curate’s egg of an experience. On the one hand the room is gorgeous, the food is delicious (particular favourites from the small plates are the Afghani lamb cannon kebab, the wagyu kati roll, … Read more →

Kodbyens Fiskebar Flæsketorvet 100 1711 København V Phone +45 32155656 info@fiskebaren.dk https://fiskebaren.dk In the meatpacking district of Copenhagen this is a wonderful treat.  It’s not warm and cosy, rather relaxed, informal, and serving spanking fresh oysters and fish that is all sustainably sourced and beautifully prepared.  Worth a trip as the … Read more →

Santini 29 Ebury St, Belgravia, London SW1W 0NZ T: +44 020 7730 4094 www.santinirestaurant.com We hadn’t been to Santini for a few years and it’s been very nicely refurbished. Accomplished Italian food prepared and served with care and attention. It has a nice ground floor terrace (you’ll remember TXG objects … Read more →

Darby’s 3 Viaduct Gardens, London SW11 7AY T: +44 020 7537 3111 www.darbys-london.com Darby’s We’re fortunate that very few people read these reviews because Darby’s is in our ‘hood and it’s already been hyped everywhere and we’d like to keep it a secret, please! Darby’s is from the team behind … Read more →

Scully Restaurant 12 Stoney Street, Borough Market, London, SE1 9AD T: 020 7403 7436 www.elliotscafe.com Elliot’s is a small restaurant in Borough Market. We went when it first opened a few years ago but the person we were with was ill, and so it didn’t really feel fair to comment … Read more →

Scully Restaurant 4 St. James’s Market London SW1Y 4AH T: +44 (0)20 3911 6840 http://www.scullyrestaurant.com/ From a Nopi alumnus comes the first, and likely only, restaurant where ‘the broccoli!’ was our table of 4’s unified cry when asked which dish we enjoyed most.  Now that is a successful dish, given we … Read more →

Heckfield Place and Marle restaurant Heckfield Place Hampshire RG27 0LD https://www.heckfieldplace.com/food-drink We spent the night here, and they sure having put in the work renovating this place.  It’s all done to a ridiculously high spec and mostly works well.  The ethos of minimal impact on the environment is carried through … Read more →

Spring Somerset House, Lancaster Pl, London WC2R 1LA http://springrestaurant.co.uk/ This restaurant is gorgeous with its pale and peaceful room in Somerset House and a comfortably-uniformed front of house team.  The food is the kind of food that you read on the menu, wonder what it might actually taste like, eat … Read more →

Rovi 59 Wells Street London W1A 3AE https://ottolenghi.co.uk/rovi/ The latest and to our mind the best of the Ottolenghi restaurants.  Whilst Nopi is great food the room itself isn’t quite right, whereas Rovi is a bright light open space with a central horseshoe bar where you can sit at the … Read more →

Fischer’s 50 Marylebone High St, Marylebone, London W1U 5HN https://www.fischers.co.uk/ Exactly as you’d expect from the Corbyn and King stable, Fischer’s is a jolly place to go where it doesn’t feel like either work or too transactional.  It’s nice enough to go for a celebration, and whilst The Delaunay is … Read more →