Reviews

PUB FOOD HAS COME A LONG WAY
01 Sep 10 - I DON'T feel ashamed that sometimes I want more from lunch than a cheese and onion cob wrapped in clingfilm, writes Oliver Pugh... ..

FROM TURKEY TO THE FAR EAST IN CAMBERWELL
27 Aug 10 - The warm August sun fades in the evening sky. A group of young Kazakh men lounge on piles of patterned cushions, red-faced with vodka, skewering chunks of meat with their forks...

ALL CHIPPER DOWN AT THE CLIPPER
19 Aug 10 - When I was growing up Redriff was pretty much a ghost town and completely isolated on Sundays, but with the redeveloped docks and a decent bus service the Rotherhithe Peninsular is now well and truly on the map and a place to go for eats and drinks...

GOOD MUNCH AT THE MANSION
12 Aug 10 - Driving through the flash-flood thunder storms on Wednesday did not bode well for the appointment with my Therapist. When I arrived at the venue a text came through: ‘I’m lost somewhere in Herne Hill’. I could not help so told her I would wait inside...

HAVING IT LARGE IN CAMBERWELL
04 Aug 10 - AFTER A morning spent hungover from a Friends Reunited reunion the night before, a late lunch was just what the doctor ordered. The Toy looked at me with a mix of disdain and disgust and pity when I picked her up and swept her off to Camberwell’s award-winning Sun And Doves...

AN INTERESTING FUSION OF ERITREA AND ITALY
28 Jul 10 - I WAS intrigued when I was given my mission to review the Red Sea Restaurant, listed as Eritrean and Italian cuisine!..

A SLICE OF UNDISCOVERED BRAZIL IN CAMBERWELL
21 Jul 10 - SITTING ON the bus I was genuinely excited about finding a little slice of undiscovered Brazil in Camberwell...
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BUZZING IN BERMONDSEY AT THE WOOLPACK
14 Jul 10 - ON THE hottest day of the year so far it was good to find shade in Bermondsey Street as I and my son walked along its narrow confines to The Woolpack...

AUTHENTIC ITALIAN THAT TASTES DELICIOUS
07 Jul 10 - AS SOON as you see the awning in the colours of the Italian flag and a glimpse of a Chianti bottle or two through the window of The Don, you just want to go in to find a few Goodfellas discussing business over a plate of meatballs and spaghetti...

THE MAGIC OF MAGNOLIA
30 Jun 10 - An advert tells me John West is the best but only people with the brain of a bream could think that tinned fish is better than fresh and even those people will have to change their minds after they have eaten the fruits de mer at Magnolia...

FARMS SERVES UP THE PERFECT SUNDAY LUNCH
23 Jun 10 - LIFE BEGINS at 40 and mine started with a trip to Surrey Docks Farm, a true gem of a place in Southwark...

IRREPRESSIBLE ITALIAN MAKES FOR A GREAT NIGHT OUT
16 Jun 10 - HAY FEVER is a pain in the backside isn't it? ..

GET A TASTE OF SIERRA LEONE
09 Jun 10 - Nivla Restaurant..

LA DOLCE VITA IN WALWORTH
02 Jun 10 - IT IS always nice to revisit a place that you have enjoyed before so I was looking forward to going back to La Luna. ..

TRADITIONAL INDIAN DOWN THE LANE
27 May 10 - AFTER MORE than a week stuck inside a darkened room trying to edit a film in time for its world premiere I knew it was time to get out to see the sky once again and breathe fresh air. Alas, on the hottest Saturday of the year so far the last thing I was looking forward to was a curry, but this was my mission for the ‘News’ so intrepidly forward I marched. Or drove. With the air conditioning on full blast...

BIG ON BRITISH AFTER IRISH WEDDING
19 May 10 - IT WAS the day after a Prendergast wedding, which usually means crawling under the blankets and hoping the pain will go away (from a hangover rather than a fight, but sometimes it’s both) - but when duty called and my readers needed me to test a new restaurant I ventured forward into the unknown...

FRESH AND INVENTIVE AT FRANKLINS
13 May 10 - PROCASTINATING FROM the job in hand as usual, I was just pondering how much I was looking forward to dinner with my boyfriend at Franklins Restaurant in East Dulwich that evening, when my phone rang. ..

SET YOUR COMPASS FOR DOWNTOWN SE16
05 May 10 - MY MISSION was to review The Compass. I didn't know the place so was told it used to be the Deal Porter. I was still in the dark. In Rotherhithe Street, the review arranger said. ..

PIE AND FINE WINE IN EAST DULWICH
28 Apr 10 - ANY TIME I've walked past Green and Blue it has always looked busy and the customers always looked happy, so I was quite excited that I was asked to go along to see what all the gaiety and laughter was about...

UP THERE WITH THE BEST IN SOUTHWARK
21 Apr 10 - I KNEW I had to go somewhere special when taking Kate Moss to dinner and The Leather Uppers fitted the bill perfectly...