Xingjiang Xinjiang Uyghur is (to my understanding) a culturally grey area of China. Situated in the North West, it was known in the old days as Chinese Turkestan, and given the region’s being b...
Going budget.. Briciole (meaning breadcrumbs in Italian) was roughly sectioned into the cafe bar (where you could swing by for proper-looking Italian sandwiches, delicacies and espresso) or the resta...
Cat Food.. You know…Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare is a three-Michelin-starred, 18-seat restaurant appendixed to a supermarket. You know, chef Cesar Ramirez is Mexican but inspired by the ...
MEAT in a touristy market.. MEATmarket – the newborn sibling of London’s famed #Meateasy and MEATliquor – is where one can enjoy a very clatteringly touristy view from the Deck of J...
Not entirely awwffal.. Fitzrovia is becoming a dining hub, with Dabbous‘s gathering a huge crowd and Lima and Bubbledogs’s being set to open in June and July, respectively. You have, in t...
Fire without smoke Koba is a popular, moderately priced and casually pristine Korean restaurant in Fitzrovia. To me, the reason that distinctly sets this little place apart from other Korean hubs ...
The no-menu family affair.. Hunan is a family run Chinese restaurant which has occupied a little corner in Chelsea/Pimlico for decades. Chef Peng (the daddy) leads the kitchen and Michael (the son) l...
Not the world’s 50 best restaurants.. Had I but world enough and time, trotting the globe to eat wouldn’t be such a crime. I am a self-confessed World’s 50 Best Restaurants junkie. ...
Facts I know very little about Helsinki. Say, this capital city of Finland wasn’t founded by the Finnish but by King Gustavus Vasa of Sweden. It fell under the Russian power from the grandiose ...
PIZZA PILGRIMS Rating: 3.5/5 Three boys with a piping hot hole-in-a-truck available all-day on Berwick Street. They did not happen to be “models” (or pimps) but a fine purveyor of Neapoli...
Snow and a frozen lake My first impression of Faviken was that it could be the PLACE good people want go to instead of heaven. Magnificently wooded, shrouded by snowy mountains and curbed by a frozen...
(Sorry, folks, for NYC and London blog interruption! This is a quick post for the “family” who’s on the way to Paris). The easiest is the tastiest.. L’Avant Comptoir is a hole...
Seafood time!! (Warning: I’m still cringing at how much I ate during the NYC trip. This post might lack excitement). Marea Marea is a two-Michelin-starrred Italian/seafood restaurant overlookin...
Made in Kensington The modest-looking Admiral Codrington – nicknamed Ad Cod – is a gastrohub among London’s most revered burger lovers. The quiet front (the quietness was, surely, d...
Japanese import Ittenbari is a Japanese ramen restaurant import by the guy behind a noted ramen restaurant Ryukishin from Sakai, Osaka. (If you are unfamiliar with ramen, read this first). Unlike its...
Ramen.. Very briefly, for those estranged by the term ‘ramen’, I am talking Japanese egg noodle in soup, which had an origin from China but has been refined across centuries by the Japane...
The Bar with a Star Mathias Dahlgren is, arguably, Sweden’s most celebrated chef and a possessor of three Michelin stars across two venues – Matsalen** and Matbaren* – at the Grand ...
The Queen of Supper Club Uyen Luu needs no introduction. She entered the London food scene a few years ago, shook it all up with (Fernandez &) Leluu Supper Club, and given the proliferation of su...
The Cinnamon… The team behind Cinnamon Soho is led by chef Vivek Singh who has earned praise from his award-winning Cinnamon Club and Cinnamon Kitchen. The look of the new Soho venture – ...
Katz’s Deli On East Houston Street has been standing Katz’s Deli for God-know-how-many years (since 1888 – I don’t do maths). This is a proper Jewish delicatessen of NYC Lower...
To front the line.. (Very) luckily, I was among the first few to brave the newly erected kitchen table at two-Michelin-starred + World’s 50 Best‘s ‘One To Watch’ Frantzén/Lind...
ACE!? I felt marooned at Ace Hotel (where hip boys and girls play dress-up and doormen can tell a Raf Simons from a Prada bling) on the cusp of Midtown and Koreatown. In that premise there are a Mich...
Landed in London A well known restaurant for Russian food aficionados, Mari Vanna originated in the Motherland (two branches in Moscow and St Petersburg) and has quickly expanded its family tree over...
Fame that lives.. I have heard that years ago many would travel to Kingsland Road for properly authentic Vietnamese treats at Song Que. The fame. Yes. I did see many framed accolades of cut-out newsp...
Relocation, relocation Cotidie, meaning ‘everyday’ in Italian, is a brainchild of Chef Bruno Barbieri, who is a much respected chef in Italy as he not only appears on Masterchef (there) b...
Cheap, not sh*t! Right. It’s not a myth to get an alright meal in a restaurant with a seat and in a heater-ed venue for around £12-15. There is always a time when I have to deal with my gastron...
Tiger’s milk? My limited knowledge of Peruvian food derived via Nobu, and I became utterly intrigued by a “tiger’s milk” marinate printed on the menu of Ceviche, a little char...
If you… If you like Chinese with a stunning view, go to Min Jiang. If you like being seen at a bright, airy, classy Chinese restaurant, go to Min Jiang. If you like extra refinement in Chinese ...
The black one.. Po Cha is one of those dodgy-looking Korean eateries on the strip off St Giles Central that I have frequented for years but never got round to remember its name. I just call it “...
Springy, squeaky, squishy, squid-y… There are a limited number of vocabulary to describe an out-of-this-world sushi experience. (I won’t attempt it). Let’s just say that if you thin...
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