Tag: Restaurant

Restaurant review: Market Café, London E8

| May 14, 2012 | 0 Comments

Neighbourhood restaurant Market Café serves the residents of Hackney from early morning right through to supper 2 Broadway Market, London E8 (020 7249 9070). Meal for two, including wine and service, £80 Every restaurant in Hackney serves breakfast. It’s the law. They just have to, because without it the vanguard of our creative industries would [...]

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Restaurant review: New Sum Ye, Birmingham

| April 16, 2012 | 0 Comments

For gastro-porn Cantonese meats with absolutely no frills, head for Birmingham’s tiny Chinatown Arcadian Centre, 70 Hurst Street, Birmingham (0121 622 1525). Meal for two, including service, £25. Anybody who is at all serious about their lunch will be haunted by the same terror: that however good the food they are eating right now, there [...]

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Restaurant review: Incanto

| April 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

Incanto has the potential to be a really good restaurant. But first the kitchen staff has to learn to calm down 41 High Street, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex (020 8426 6767). Meal for two, including wine and service, £120 There are great dish ideas. There are bad dish ideas. And then there are some that fall under [...]

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Butley Orford Oysterage

| January 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

What the Oysterage lacks in frills it more than makes up for with its flavoursome, no-nonsense cooking Orford, Suffolk (01394 450 277). Meal for two, including drinks and service, £70 It would be hard to describe the Butley Orford Oysterage as pretty, especially on a deep midwinter’s day when even by lunchtime the light looks [...]

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Create

| January 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

31 King Street, Leeds (0113 242 0628). Meal for two, including drinks and service, £75. On the wall above the semi-open kitchen at this week’s restaurant is the slogan: “Create – where good food and people matter.” Anybody with a healthy disdain for mission statements, sloganeering and the unintentional kitsch of Hallmark greeting cards will immediately [...]

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34 Grosvenor Square

| January 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

Perfect steaks, incredible desserts and a scattering of phone-hackerati… Everything about 34 adds up 34 Grosvenor Square, London W1 (020 3350 2424). Meal for two, including drinks and service, £130 Sitting in a corner by the bar at 34, the new restaurant from the group behind the Ivy and Le Caprice among others, is a [...]

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