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Le Chalet review – Q Grill winter pop-up at Selfridges
It’s not as French as you think, nor as good as you’d hope It’s well known that media ownership in the UK is concentrated in the fat, gold-encrusted hands of an increasingly small group of notorious...
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Babaji Pide review – Turkish pizzas hit Soho
Alan Yau tries his hand at Turkish food with mixed results Londoners have been praying for the demise of the hated Aberdeen Angus Steakhouse chain for decades now. While that tourist-duping parasite is...
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Hotbox review – the City barbecue miles better than Bodean’s
Market stall BBQ settles down on Commercial Street Market stalls and street food tend to be underestimated and under-appreciated by many visitors to London. That’s their loss as street food vendors can...
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The most popular London restaurants of 2014
Barbecue, banh mi, fine dining and even more barbecue The start of 2015 means a customary look back over 2014 – and what a year it was. This seasonal retrospective is a little later than usual this...
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Eating my way around Rome – porchetta, pizza and far too much gelato
This article about Rome is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Rome’s dining out scene may not be as multinational as London’s, but there is still an incredible depth that is...
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All’oro review – glossy Rome fine dining
This review of a Rome restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Love them or loath them, online restaurant reservation services such as Opentable are now an integral...
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Pipero al Rex review – quirky fine dining near Termini
This review of a Rome restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Restaurants named after their chefs, celebrity or otherwise, is pretty standard but a restaurant named...
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Portland review – lamb tartare and pickled shiitake on Great Portland Street
Picture’s sleek new rival Coming up with restaurant names is not easy. With umpteeen restaurants opening a week in London, all the names that are both good and obvious have long been taken by now. But...
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Antico Arco review – Rome fine dining near the Janiculum Hill
This review of a Rome restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Londoners love to complain about The Big Smoke’s public transport and traffic congestion, but they...
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Il Sanlorenzo review – superb Rome seafood, shame about the service
This review of a Rome restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Seafood isn’t the first thing most people associate with Italian cuisine, if only because it doesn’t fit...
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Jinjuu review – celebrity chef Korean hits Kingly Street
Soho Korean food in a burger bun My dining companions don’t believe me when I tell them I don’t care about celebrity chefs. I keep track of their comings and goings of course. But when it comes down to...
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Kintan vs Jin Go Gae review – Japanese and Korean barbecue face-off
Chancery Lane vs New Malden Every restaurant needs a hook (or, if you’re uncharitable, a gimmick) to stand out in London’s dizzying eating out market. Kintan claims to be the first Japanese barbecue...
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Metamorfosi review – Gorgonzola lollipops and eel with ice cream
This review of a Rome restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Holidaying by oneself can be a lonely experience, but it also gives a great degree of freedom –...
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Ruby Jean’s at The Royal George review – pubco Americana for drunks
Food fit only for pissheads I usually see a slight dip in the number of visitors to my website over the weekend largely due, I suspect, to most of you getting hammered to blot out the horrors of the...
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Bo Drake review – the Soho Asian barbecue where there’s smoke but no fire
It’s Korean-ish BBQ with a dash of Mexican. Sort of. Around Christmas/New Years time I usually got a small shovel-load of emails asking me to predict what the restaurant trends for the coming year will...
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Blacklock review –£20 for a huge plate of chops
Bargain Soho grilled meat The idea of a restaurant that serves just chops sounds startlingly modern, but it’s actually quite an old idea. London used to be covered in chophouses – restaurants that,...
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The Thirsty Bear review – iPad your burgers in Southwark
Warning: bad pub food and even worse bear puns ahead Screens are now so common that we’re surrounded by them – from the phones in our pockets to the TVs in our living rooms and the computers on our...
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Rex and Mariano review – iPad your budget seafood in Soho
Bargain seafood in the West End – hallelujah! Update 12/3/15 – added extra tuna steak photo Seafood in London has a reputation for being expensive, but Rex and Mariano shows that it doesn’t have be...
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In Parma review – Italian charcuterie and cheese you have to try
A taste of northern Italy in Fitzrovia Italy has a bevy of regional cuisines but very few of them get any sort of exposure in London. For this reason alone In Parma deserves some credit for largely...
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Big Fernand review – French burgers come to Tottenham Court Road
Every burger reviewed from beef to veal, chicken and mushroom too If you buy into the stereotypical caricature of French food as a rarefied haute cuisine that abhors any sort of perfidious Anglo-Saxon...
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