Merchants Tavern
I wasn’t doing very much one day, as is my wont, when an email from…
Browsing: London Restaurants
Rextail
As we descend into the subterranean dining room at Rextail, leaving behind the cold of…
Blanchette
Blanchette is a new neighbourhood bistro in Soho founded by three brothers – Malik, Maxime…
Sticks ‘n’ Sushi
The first thing you notice as you walk through the doors of Sticks ‘n’ Sushi,…
Foxlow
The latest opening from the Hawksmoor geniuses has been billed as something of a break from their established formula of enormous, male-oriented steakhouses and cocktail bars. Early word has been of a quiet neighbourhood restaurant, a more modest and humble undertaking than the big, brash and bold places that have made the company’s name.
Cabana
Cabana’s startling multi-coloured facade rears up at me as I approach from the west. Baby…
The Princess Victoria
Squally showers and insistent rain beat down a tattoo on the pavement beneath our feet. The glistening slabs, uniform in their grey municipality, are punctuated only by a discarded fried chicken wing here, a sad single shoe there.
Brasserie Chavot
When I visited The Capital about six years ago, I was blown away by the…
The House of St. Barnabas
A private members’ club attributed to a saint? Not as odd as it sounds, as Richard Clayman discovers the charity behind this London institution…
Outlaw’s at the Capital
“Outlaw’s at The Capital sounds rather dramatic, like a Sam Pekinpah Western. It is not; it is a very calm, well-mannered, perfectly turned out restaurant in Knightsbridge…”
Boulestin St James
“When a new restaurant opens in St James, critics from leftie-communist-vegetarian newspapers sigh heavily; they reach for the thesaurus to find a superfluity of words to describe what was an overpriced, mediocre meal…”