Google Maps rather bizarrely calls Steak & Lobster an “intimate Mediterranean restaurant” which is wrong on both counts. It’s a jolly big dining room with comfortable tables, chairs and banquettes and a huge glamorous chandelier above the central bar. And the steaks and lobsters are apparently sourced from Northern Ireland. The menu is very single-minded: …
Category Archive: London
Review: Donia, Soho
Donia, up on the top floor of Kingly Court, are serving up Philippine food through the filter of London modern high-end small-plate cooking. I find Philippine cuisine hard to pin down. It doesn’t have any of the powerful sweet-salt-hot-sour melange of other SE Asian cuisines, and doesn’t go in heavily on the spices like South …
Review: Bibi, Mayfair
Bibi is very Mayfair. Fully on trend, there is mostly counter seating, but here the stools are plumply upholstered affairs with comfortable backs. Lighting is dark and clubby. A carafe of water is offered, then appears as £3.5 per person on the bill. And the included service charge is 15% of course. We did enjoy …