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Eating my way around Jordan
This travelogue about Jordan is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Telling people that I was going on holiday to Jordan elicited two responses. The first involved concerns...
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The Clove Club review – superlative Shoreditch supper
The best meal of the year and inexcusably overlooked by the Michelin Guide I encountered a fellow travelling Brit with some interesting views on food during my recent jaunt around Jordan. Although he...
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BBQ Whiskey Beer vs Texas Joe’s – ribs, brisket, ribs and more ribs
Bar barbecue face-off During my recent round up of American-style barbecue places, an unsurprisingly large number of the best places to eat were market stalls and residencies inside bars. One of the...
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Berners Tavern review – looks good and tastes even better
Hotel food with a twist Hotel restaurants are very different from restaurants in hotels. This may seem like a minor semantic difference, but there’s actually a yawning gulf between the two. Hotel...
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Foxlow review – the Farringdon meat restaurant that’s not St John
The Hawksmoor that’s not a Hawksmoor Foxlow is the latest restaurant from the guys behind the Hawksmoor mini-chain of steakhouses, but it tries to be different by concentrating on meats other than...
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Peyote vs Breddo’s Tacos review – Mayfair Mexican miracle or middling muddle?
Mayfair poshos vs market stall wanderers Breddo’s Tacos was one of the very few Mexican eateries that I managed to miss during my recent round-up of London’s burrito and taco eateries. I finally got...
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The Ape and Bird review – the Shaftesbury Avenue gastropub that’s no tourist...
The Polpo guys do it again It’s mildly myopic to say that there’s no where good to eat on Shaftesbury Avenue as the myriad delights of Soho, Covent Garden and Chinatown are only a few minutes walk...
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Janetira review – the tasty Soho Thai restaurant that isn’t Busaba
Brewer Street gets spicy If you’ve got a hankering for Thai food when you’re out and about in the Soho area, then the obvious choice is Busaba Eathai. I find Alan Yau’s chain to be merely okay though,...
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Ember Yard review – Soho barbecue tapas
Quince-glazed ribs and chorizo skewers on Berwick Street Soho isn’t short of tapas restaurants – indeed, it’s an area of London absolutely overflowing with them. That hasn’t stopped a new one from...
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Jackson + Rye review – Soho late night diner and American breakfasts
Late to bed and early to rise makes one fat and tired Given the number of early risers and night owls in London, there are surprisingly few breakfast spots worth seeking out and even fewer late night...
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Drakes Tabanco review – Tapas combining the best of Britain and Spain?
Fitzrovia tapas and sherry Fitzrovia, that weird part of London north of Oxford Street, south of Euston, west of Bloomsbury and east of Marylebone, is overflowing with tapas restaurants. Barrica, The...
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Lalibela review – a taste of Ethiopia in Tufnell Park
Kitsch and kitfo by the kilo* *meat not actually sold by the kilogram. I just like alliteration. Cities and towns across Britain are largely filled with the same ol’ usual suspects when it comes to...
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Clockjack Oven review – Soho rotisserie and fried chicken
Juicy birds or plucking hell? London has been inundated by a small flood of fried and roast chicken restaurants. I fully recognise that chicken cooked well can be a world apart from the usual fowl...
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The most popular London restaurants of 2013
I really dislike the end-of-year roundups found on most websites. Ensuring that loyal readers have something to read over the quiet Christmas/New Year’s/Winterval period is admirable; cynically...
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Meat People review – Islington zebra, steak and pork
S&M no more Meat People might sound like yet another part of the burgeoning Meatliqour burger empire, but it’s actually, as far as I can tell, an independent meat-focussed restaurant. It’s located...
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Blackfoot review – the Exmouth Market all-pork restaurant
Time to pig out There’s no shortage of steak and burger restaurants in London, but very few dedicated to pork. Although some may think that the pig is inferior to the cow, pork definitely has its own...
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Devran review – Green Lanes kebab newcomer
Getting fat on big-ass kebabs Most of the Turkish restaurants on north London’s Green Lanes have been around for years, so the arrival of an apparent newcomer such as Devran is an unusual occurrence....
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My Old Place review – budget Liverpool Street Chinese
Cheap and cheerful Chinese cuisine The City isn’t the first place that comes to mind for eating out inexpensively, with most people heading to nearby Shoreditch instead. There are worthwhile...
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E. Mono review – Kentish Town kebabs come to Finsbury Park
Worth seeking out or just another take away for tired, drunken locals? E. Mono is a renowned kebab restaurant and take away in Kentish Town that also has a second outpost within the confines of...
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Boopshi’s review – Fitzrovia schnitzel and bratwurst
Hearty party Traditional Austrian food is never going to take over the world. At the risk of making a crude generalisation, old school Austrian food at its best is tasty, but also rather heavy with...
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