Category: Restaurant Reviews

Restaurant reviews

Review: OMA, Borough

Feels like Middle Eastern cuisine is having a big time in London, and OMA is one of the spots at the forefront of it. It’s taken us over a year to get here since we put it on our bucketlist, as earlier on it was going through that super-hyped phase where booking less than a …

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Review: Sabor, Mayfair

Arroz negro coming up!

After a couple of false starts, we finally got around to eating at Sabor and I’m very glad we did! Showing up at 12 on a weekday turns out to be just fine now, whereas I think there was more queuing a couple of years back when Sabor was the exciting new kid on the …

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Review: The Garden Cafe, Waterloo

Morteau sausage

When it opened a few years back, the Garden Museum Cafe was voted “Best museum restaurant in the world” – a high accolade. Of course, in part that’s because museums haven’t often been known for their food offerings. The theory certainly always seemed to be: if you’ve got a captive audience, why not milk them …

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Review: The Barbary Next Door, Covent Garden

Stracchiatella

Stopping in at The Barbary Next Door for an early dinner pre-theatre, we found a stripped-back little corridor with about eight seats at the kitchen counter and four facing the wall. They’ve not messed around with any kind of design aesthetic, the vibe is just a hole-in-the-wall bar/kitchen that you might find somewhere in the …

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Review: Rockfish, Brixham

Cuttlefish

There are more than a dozen Rockfish restaurants along the Devon and Dorset coast, a successful little chain by anyone’s standard, and the one at Brixham in Devon was the first and is the place where most of their fish are landed. The dining room does have a bit of a chain vibe, anonymous rows …

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