They’ve been serving Italian food at Da Mario in leafy Kensington for decades and decades. It is exactly what you would expect from an antique London Italian restaurant, from the mish-mash of old furniture to the photos of famous visitors on the walls alongside pictures of glorious bits of the mother country. At Da Mario …
Sushi makes for a good pre-theatre meal: it’s light, service is usually fast, and of course I love it. Hmm… I suppose I could add that we also don’t usually drink much with sushi, so should be altogether less dozy for the performance, although this time we indulged in a flask of Chisou‘s house sake! …
Wow there are a lot of fine dining options out east these days. Shoreditch and Hackney are now huge hotspots for splash-out meals, perhaps shaped by cheaper rents while still being pretty accessible on the tube and train network? The latest we tried was Counter 71, where as the name suggests, all the covers are …
I’d say TOWN is a pretty good candidate for meal of the year already. Combination of superb food, lovely setting and really excellent service. The interior is wonderful, lots of clean curves giving something of a 60’s modernist retro vibe but with all the furnishing and other decor carrying a burgundy and baked earth colour …
Today we fancied an izakaya. There’s a good one called Flesh & Buns towards Covent Garden (review here) but we decided to try somewhere new and widen our options: Robata, named for the coal-fired grills used for cooking yakitori sticks. The sticks we chose were: lamb belly, Iberico pork, king oyster mushroom, sweetcorn. The lamb …