I didn’t know much about Martinis, let alone the World’s Best Martini Challenge. Although I did know Dorothy Parker’s famous quote. “I like to have a Martini, two at the very most. After three… Continue reading
Regular readers of our ramblings will know by now just how much we love a cocktail. And those of you who know about great and inventive cocktails should know all about B.Y.O.C. If… Continue reading
I felt I’d given ourselves enough time to recover from the last no reservations restaurant we visited before heading to another* – Blacklock. Founded by a few ex-employees from one of our favourite… Continue reading
Time is the one thing that we are all lacking in our lives. No one wants to waste a second of it queuing for a restaurant, yet we put ourselves through this pain… Continue reading
We’re OBVIOUSLY not comparing ourselves in the slightest, but we totally get why Fay Maschler visits a restaurant at least twice before she reviews. Our visit to Hoppers a couple of weeks ago,… Continue reading
The Chinese new year is almost upon us, this year it’s the year of the monkey, which is also considered to be one of the most unlucky years in the Chinese calendar. Yauatcha… Continue reading
Shackfuyu – nope, I’m not swearing, naming a planet from the new Star Wars film, nor has a cat just walked across my keyboard. It’s the pop-up gone permanent by the fabulous Bone… Continue reading
OK, I’m not being mean, but why do so-called Londoners go to Pizza Express? This is a question we ask ourselves frequently. There are tonnes of greater (and cheaper) restaurants, it’s not 1998… Continue reading
We eat out a lot (obviously) and despite seeking out restaurants that we anticipate loving rather than just liking, a lot of the time we are left a little deflated. We’ve eaten at… Continue reading
We’ve been to Jackson + Rye on Wardour Street numerous times. The first, back in December 2013 when they first opened to sample their brunch menu. More recently was to pop in for a nightcap when… Continue reading
Before I visited The House of Ho I read a review on 60secondreviews.com which summed up this Vietnamese restaurant as ‘something different. some of it excellent, some of it pricey, some of it…… Continue reading
I was slightly sad to see the back of Satsuma – the Japanese restaurant on Wardour Street full of orange futuristic pod-like booths. Not many places have been around for as long as… Continue reading
As you well know, or at least you should, Saff and I are a food blogging husband and wife team. But on this occasion I dined out with my old boss and friend,… Continue reading
On the night we were invited to Grillshack, one of the numerous new restaurants that are to open this month, we read that the capital’s typical restaurant goer eats out 3.7 times a… Continue reading
Often it takes us a while to relax and get settled in when we visit a restaurant. We’re usually rushing and knackered from the day job, so switching off and enjoying the night… Continue reading
Wong Kei, possibly one of the most amusing names for a restaurant ever. As soon as I mentioned we were going there I was inundated with stories of friends’ visits – looks like Wong… Continue reading
Up until our honeymoon in Thailand, a Thai green curry was my all-time favourite dish, I would even go as far as saying it would have been my death row meal. But due… Continue reading
There are a couple of buzz words that have resurfaced of late – cheap eats! Time out had their cover story dedicated to the subject a while back. We even went to Zédel off… Continue reading
After Hawksmoor, Bob Bob Ricard was a restaurant I had been wanting to visit for such a long time. And I mean really long, like two years long. Having been a regular in… Continue reading
We are huge fans of Pub du Vin and Hotel du Vin in Brighton, so we were expecting the same level of enjoyment from Bistro du Vin. We visited the restaurant on Dean… Continue reading
