Reviews

OLD COUNTRY RECIPES
05 Jan 09 - CHRISTMAS IS well and truly over, and after all those turkey and stuffing-laced dinners, most people are desperate for something different. Cue La Luna, the award-winning Italian restaurant that has top chefs' pallets dancing...

THE LOBSTER POT - SE11
22 Dec 08 - I SKIPPED across the Lambeth border to test-run one of the most talked about fish restaurants this side of the water...

DRAGON INN - SE1
15 Dec 08 - IT'S NOT all fun and games, you know, this restaurant reviewing lark. Sometimes, to bring you an open and honest assessment, your humble correspondent has to suffer extreme physical and emotional hardships...

OLD SALT QUAY - SE16
01 Dec 08 - THEY SAY it is often the most subtle of changes that have the greatest effect, and that certainly seems the case at the rejuvenated Old Salt Quay, or Spice Island...

APPLEBEE'S - SE1
20 Nov 08 - IT'S FRIDAY night so it must be fish and chips for tea. 'That's right Johnny run along to Tony's and pick up cod and chips for the family' mum would cry...

THE DON - SE1
17 Nov 08 - FOOD IS as essential to the well-being of the Mafia as double-breasted suits, greased-up hair and dolled-up 'goumahs'...

THE DEAL PORTER - SE16
10 Nov 08 - WINTER IS here. The rain has fallen with force and the last of the leaves are clinging to the trees. Finally the Sunday lunch season is back in full swing, writes David Yuill....

DULWICH TANDOORI - SE22
27 Oct 08 - THERE ARE jobs where you clearly need to call in the big guns, so when I was asked to rate one of the many curry houses on Lordship Lane, I had to assemble my very own A-team...

GANDHI'S - SE11
17 Oct 08 - ALWAYS A popular haunt for politicians, it now seems that last week's bank bail out package was fuelled by a hefty takeaway order from Westminster's favourite balti restaurant...

BARCELONA - SE22
13 Oct 08 - WITH MY insight into Spanish cuisine limited to the late night eateries of the various resorts of the Costa del Sol - I apologetically consider myself an extreme tapas novice, writes David Yuill.....

SE1 RESTAURANT REVIVES BRISKET
08 Oct 08 - I HEADED down to the newly branded Brisket Restaurant, but have to confess that I was not clear what brisket was. Yet when I was presented with this dish I was converted for life...
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CAMBERWELL'S NEW HIDDEN GEM
06 Oct 08 - IF YOU'RE looking for a hidden gem to while away the hours with the Sunday papers, you may want to pop down to Camberwell's latest addition - an ornate, welcoming gastro pub called The Cambria...

THE REFINERY - SE1
25 Sep 08 - THE REFINERY is a new boy on the scene, having only been open for a couple of weeks, but if you are in that part of town, why not wander past the overcrowded pubs in Borough market and check out this excellent little spot?..

THE YELLOW HOUSE BAR & KITCHEN - SE16
22 Sep 08 - THE ATMOSPHERE was perfectly judged, lying somewhere between that of a lively restaurant and a quiet bar. So perhaps The Yellow House is in many ways the perfect hybrid night out. Especially if you like your breads…..
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JAFLONG - SE22
15 Sep 08 - IN AN ALREADY saturated market of cuisine from the sub-continent, the last thing East Dulwich's Lordship Lane needed was another curry house - right?..

HOOPERS - SE5
29 Aug 08 - SPENDING A lazy Bank Holiday watching our Olympians come home filled me up with pride, but also with a burning hunger and thirst to salute the returning heroes in my own personal way...