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Colombo Kitchen review – the Sri Lankan restaurant brightening up Worcester Park
This special events catering company outshines the competition in Tooting Long before the rise of Hoppers, one of the standard bearers for Sri Lankan food in London were the cheap and cheerful...
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Trap Kitchen review – affordable seafood swims into Balham via Instagram
This crab dinner has legs, but it’s running before it can walk The potential of Instagram to power and propel businesses from mere photographic ideas into actual money making businesses is well known....
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Volta do Mar review – Portuguese food that isn’t just from Portugal
Big issues on small plates from a Salt Yard alumnus Volta do Mar is an unusual restaurant in more ways than one. Founded by an alumnus from the storied yet troubled Salt Yard group, Volta do Mar’s...
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Madera review – the Mexican Treehouse hotel restaurant that’s fallen off its...
Tacos with views over London, but it’s barely a feast for the eyes Many major cities across the world have restaurants perched on top of tall buildings – quite often rotating ones. Berlin has the TV...
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Trivet review – the London Bridge fine dining restaurant with an identity crisis
What’s the point of all this? Fine dining used to be so easy to identify. The opulently decorated dining rooms, the tablecloths, the suited and booted staff – and that was just the physical...
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Sarap review – the buzz and vigour of Filipino food arrives in Brixton
This six-month residency needs to become permanent We all have friends that say the stupidest, most regrettable things. Jaw-dropping comments that almost make you regret befriending them in the first...
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Soju Reading review – the sizzle and thrill of Korean barbecue in nearest...
Kimchi, grilled bulgogi and chilled noodles in east Berkshire The very question of whether Reading is a part of London would’ve been ridiculous just a few short years ago. This quasi-commuter town in...
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Lupins review – the Southwark restaurant gem that’s easy to miss
The best thing about Flat Iron Square isn’t the street food stalls I’m sometimes asked how I pick which restaurants to review. The number and range of possible criteria is large and diverse,...
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Yah-So review – look beneath the chintz at this Jamaican restaurant in Croydon
Bring your loved ones – and even your frenemies – to this Thornton Heath restaurant We all, at some point or another, have to break bread with people that we’d rather spend less time with – not more....
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Chuku’s review – Nigerian tapas takes Seven Sisters by storm
The entire menu reviewed starting with all the vegetarian and vegan dishes The surprising thing about Chuku’s, to me at least, isn’t that this Tottenham restaurant serves Nigerian food. Although...
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The Georgian review – Clapham’s Caucasus restaurant that must survive
No, not that Georgia – the other one At the time of writing, the entirety of London’s restaurant industry – and indeed the UK’s – has entered a period of intense uncertainty. The Covid-19 coronavirus...
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Macellaio RC Union Street review – the Italian steakhouse that can’t tear...
It now delivers too. Well, sort of. Whenever I told people that I was reviewing Macellaio RC, an Italian steakhouse, the ensuing response was always the same: ‘what’s an Italian steakhouse?!’ The...
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Vinegar Yard review – the street food market that’s also a marketing ploy
Nothing here is exactly what it appears to be At first glance, Vinegar Yard appears to be just a street food market. A somewhat incongruously placed one perhaps, given that its decorated with huge...
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Everest Curry King review – the Lewisham Sri Lankan that aims for the summit
But settles for base camp instead Everest Curry King is a brilliantly memorable name for a local cafe and takeaway. With a name of just three short and distinctive words that aren’t usually seen...
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Kauboi Ramen review – the barbecue noodle soup Texas-Japan mashup you never...
Authenticity is just the start of a good meal, not the end Update 5/5/2020 – corrected typographical errors Countless words have been written about authenticity in non-Western food, a thorny argument...
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Nando’s vs Roosters Piri Piri review – cheap and cheeky chicken comparison
Southeast London takeaway chicken and chips Nando’s is a national institution and unsurprisingly so. This popularity isn’t due solely to their ubiquity – its staple chicken dishes can be consumed by...
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The best and worst American barbecue in London for delivery and takeaway
Summer and barbecue go together like Bank Holidays and rain. One naturally follows the other, but even better is a summer filled with American-style barbecue, a world away from a typical suburban...
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Eating my way around Cornwall, from St Ives to Falmouth
This article about West Cornwall is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage It may seem incongruous for me, as a London-based restaurant reviewer, to have my first indoor catered...
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Mackerel Sky review – this seafood bar achieves lift-off, but doesn’t quite soar
This review of a Newlyn/Penzance restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage. For an island nation, the UK is collectively quite neurotic about what it does and doesn’t...
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Koya City review – vegan-friendly Japanese noodles and bookable too
Nab some outdoor seating while it’s still warm-ish In the Before Times, that halcyon era when we didn’t have to worry about social distancing and hand sanitiser, one of the biggest bugbears with...
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