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Yumi Izayaka review – small Japanese bar with big flavours
Shaftesbury Avenue yakitori that deserves your support Location, location and location. It’s supposed to be one of the keys to a successful London restaurant, but a spot on the West End’s bustling...
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Rosas and Xocolate review – just as sweet by any other name
This review of a Yucatan restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Rosas & Xocolate is an odd name for a restaurant and an even odder name for a hotel. Even if it...
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Santo Remedio review – the best Mexican in London
Hidden Shoreditch gem finally gives Mexican food its due Britain’s continuing love affair with the US manifests itself in our culture in many ways, not least in the number of barbecue and burger...
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La Chaya Maya review – Merida breakfast with a bit of cheesiness
This review of a Yucatan restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Hotel breakfasts can be a repetitive, dispiriting experience. Over the course of a few weeks in...
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Benazuza review – Cancun hotel fine dining falls flat on its face
This review of a Cancun restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage El Bulli, Ferran Adria’s famed modernist restaurant, must have employed half a continent’s worth of...
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Som Saa review – eye-opening pop-up Thai settles down in Spitalfields
Some say it’s the best Thai in London. All we know is that we call it bloody brilliant. It’s very easy to become jaded and disillusioned when covering London’s restaurants. From the...
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Bukowski Grill Soho review – bandwagon burgers and barbecue
A waste of Soho real estate I haven’t heard the name Bukowski Grill in years – not since my round up of London’s best non-chain burgers. The Shoreditch branch of Bukowski fared poorly in those burger...
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Bodean’s Covent Garden review – the mediocrity continues
Bait and switch tourist trap barbecue For many people Bodean’s is syonymous with American-style barbecue in London, but that doesn’t mean the food is actually any good. As I discovered in my original...
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Burgerac Burgershack at The Social review – burger blogger shows how it’s done
Burger blogger puts his money where his mouth is I usually try to avoid knowing too much about the people behind the restaurants I review. I find it’s more difficult to be critically honest when...
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Kailash Momo review – cheap Tibetan food in Woolwich
Warm your cockles with blue cheese and dumplings Most suburban and semi-suburban high streets have to make do with a string of chain restaurants, but the denizens of Woolwich doesn’t have to put up...
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Habanera review – Shepherd’s Bush Mexican has style and substance
Skip the Westfield White City Wahaca. I have an inherent distrust of excessively showy-looking restaurants – anything too flashy is usually covering for deficiencies in the kitchen. That doesn’t have...
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The Barbary review – The Palomar’s Covent Garden sequel
No matter how much we try to deny it, we all love sequels. You might tell your friends how much you enjoyed that quirky Spanish art house film that no one has ever heard of, while secretly sneaking out...
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The Sichuan review – tongue tickling in Shoreditch and the City
Fire and blood link Old Street and Liverpool Street London’s ‘ethnic’ restaurants tend to be clustered together in specific neighbourhoods due to quirks of history and rent. The Korean restaurants of...
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Casa Mortia review – Brixton Village Mexican needs a rethink
Simple doesn’t automatically mean good Visiting other countries and trying out cuisines in their place of origin is great, but it also presents a problem. It makes you realise just how badly many...
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DF / Mexico review – the bastard offspring of Wahaca and Wimpy
Wahaca’s fast food spin-off takes on Benito’s Hat and Tortilla When tasked with formulating a legal standard for the offence of obscenity, American judge Potter Stewart came up with the immortal phrase...
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Bao Fitzrovia review – Taiwanese sequel tops Tottenham Court Road
The king is dead; long live the king Fitzrovia has always had more than its fair share of restaurants given the relatively small size of this neighbourhood, hemmed in by Bloomsbury, Soho and...
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Texas Joe’s Smoked Meats review – London Bridge has never had it so good
Superlative barbecue hidden behind Guy’s Hospital There are many injustices in London’s restaurant scene (I’m still hurting after the closure of Rex and Mariano), but few things annoy me more than...
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The best and worst gelato in London – 103 scoops of Italian ice cream and 35...
All gelato is ice cream, but not all ice cream is gelato It’s easy to joke about the cold and wet English summer, but those jokes will be a fond, distant memory when London is inevitably roasting in 30...
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Berber and Q Shawarma Bar review – Exmouth Market gets sit-down kebabs
Middle Eastern BBQ sequel goes back to basics When most restaurants decide to expand by opening new branches, they usually sprout carbon copy clones of the original, try to make each new location...
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Foley’s review – a weird but not necessarily wonderful Fitzrovia restaurant
Globe-trotting ex-Palomar chef needs to settle down Fusion food is one of those misguided and blingtastically tacky relics of the 1980s that should’ve died long ago along with shoulder pads, the New...
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