Reviews
MUMBAI HAS TRULY STOOD THE TEST OF TIME
14 May 09 - WITH MY current famine of female company I went for the next best thing and got Toy Boy to come along with me to review Dockhead's premiere Indian restaurant, Mumbai. ..
ASIAN FOOD FROM PARADISE
07 May 09 - BILLED AS Asian Fusion food I felt it fitting to take along my Asian friend The Toy when reviewing Chino Latino Brasserie. After passing through the bright foyer it all changed into mood lighting, dark reds and blacks. ..
A LITTLE PIECE OF ITALY
30 Apr 09 - HAVING JUST finished the standard fare for a reporter: a bap-on-the-run, filled with unidentifiable 'chicken mix', and having run (of a fashion) the length of Long Lane, I didn't really feel prepared for a food review, writes Oliver Pugh.....
VERY NICE IN THE VAULTS
23 Apr 09 - WHO BETTER to take as a dining partner for a restaurant review than the best cook in the world - my mum - and with her birthday imminent a trip to Cantina Vinopolis was just the thing. Cantina is part of the magnificent Vinopolis complex by Borough Market that houses a cocktail bar, a beer bar and a wine bar as well as wine-tasting tours, fine and casual dining and even once a month comedy nights! ..
HIGH TABLE AT HIGH TIMBER
16 Apr 09 - AS I stepped across the Southwark border into the next borough my knees started shaking, a common complaint for Bermondsey boys who feel they need a passport to go off the manor...
CHOC FACTORY WORKS
09 Apr 09 - ALTHOUGH JUST off the main buzz of Borough Market, The Menier Chocolate Factory Restaurant is not isolated in the hinterland of boring office blocks in Southwark Street because it is its very own entertainment centre. ..
PERFECT PAELLA
01 Apr 09 - PAELLA VALENCIANA. Chicken based paella with seafood. Serves four people...
TIP TOP PING PONG
26 Mar 09 - DIM SUM is traditionally served in the mornings along with tea but, as we all know, eating traditions are floundering all around us: we no longer laugh at the sign saying All Day Breakfast. Enter Ping Pong, a Dim Sum all day place that has taken London by storm, quickly rising up to establish itself in the Top Ten Dim Sum restaurants league table selected by the Chinese community themselves...
MARRIOTT TRULY IS MARVELLOUS
19 Mar 09 - THERE ARE special occasions, and then there are those very rare occasions when you just find the money, dust off the dinner suit and treat yourself to places like the Marriott Hotel.
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GLOUCESTER HITS THE SPOT IN DARTMOUTH
06 Mar 09 - THE DARTMOUTH Arms is a pub where on a weekend morning you can take a newspaper and sit in comfortable armchairs with a good beer or a coffee in the front bars and while away an hour or two. ..
PRICEY ROAST HAS PLENTY TO BOAST ABOUT
27 Feb 09 - AS SOON as I said 'Would you like to lunch at Roast on Monday?' Nina the Ballerina had her best sickie excuse in operation and her best frock out of the wardrobe. It was a good job one of us dressed for the occasion as my chinos looked pretty down-market amongst the business suits on display in Borough Market's top-notch eatery.
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THE PALMERSTON
24 Feb 09 - SO THAT'S why the Palmerston has such a good reputation..
THAI PAVILION EAST
16 Feb 09 - WHEN YOU hear of pavilions in Kennington it is easy to think you are spending a day at the Oval, either watching leather hit willow or if at a Twenty20 encounter watching the punters getting leathered in a quite different manner, writes John Prendergast.....