Restaurant reviews
You’d expect a Mexican restaurant in Chelsea to be a little more stylish than a taqueria in Borough Market. Hey presto, Ixchel appears! With a stunning interior of cool creamy walls covered in artfully lighter rustic niches full of ancient-looking Mayan-stylie terracotta figures and some very grand cacti. The colour palette is graceful and restrained. …
There’s something about Italian cuisine in London that gives us a specific type of restaurant. Common elements: the dishes are pared back, simple Italian classics, the cooking and produce is high quality, and the prices are even higher. Cafe Murano is one of these, perhaps not surprisingly as it’s from Angela Hartnett’s stable and I …
Supawan has been around for a while, we just don’t often get up to King’s Cross. Now we feel like we need to find some more excuses to get up there, because it immediately slots into our top three favourite Thai meals in London! Why? Proper, punchy, full-on flavours and really excellent technique. It’s classic …
Different food cultures, different norms. Sometimes it catches you off-guard, though. We ordered various bits of dim sum, and then a fried rice main dish and a side dish at Dim Sum Library. Then we were a bit startled when our side dish and two dim sum came even before we’d been served our drinks, …
There’s a type of restaurant. It takes a classic local cuisine, recreates it in a bijou corner of London in a comfortable dining room that looks like the chocolate-box version of the old local restaurants where the cuisine originated, perfects the classic dishes, then doubles the pricetag and tops it with a winelist hefty with …
