Great Vietnamese regional cooking – Pho for those in the know: Hands up who’s been to a Chinese restaurant? Everyone – unless you’ve just arrived in London from another planet. The same is probably true for Thai and Japanese restaurants which are now on almost every local high street. On the other hand, Vietnamese places […]
Healthy Sesame Chicken Stir-Fry
Simple healthy sesame chicken stir-fry with Yutaka Edamame Noodles: A few samples of a new healthy noodle range from Yutaka, together with a stir-fry cookery book from Ching-He Huang were the inspiration for this recipe. I love stir fry dishes but do tend to rely on a version of stone soup where whatever happens to be […]
Nep Nep Vietnamese Restaurant – Marylebone
Nep Nep – the Vietnamese Cafe all Stations Need. Tucked away just around the corner from Marylebone Station, Nep Nep is the kind of restaurant you need to know about. You might hesitate to go in, it looks a little worn around the edges from the outside. But, if you want something freshly cooked, beautifully […]
Thai Square Restaurant – Classic Thai Food in Classic London Locations
Thai Square, Trafalgar Square: Officially Thai Square Restaurant isn’t on Trafalgar Square but on the adjoining Cockspur street. To any normal member of the public though, it’s a restaurant with a prime location. And if you sit by the window, as we did, you’ll get a splendid view out across Trafalgar Square. Londoners like me love […]
Yuu Kitchen Review
Yuu Kitchen Revisited: Sometimes my travels seem to conspire against me. When the casual Asian restaurant Yuu Kitchen first opened, I really wanted to visit – but a series of back to back press trips meant that I simply couldn’t make the dates offered. Instead, the ever-enthusiastic Hedonist went along and came back to write […]
Lahpet – Review
Authentic Burmese Restaurant in London at Lahpet: Burmese cuisine is one of the most under-represented of the various South-East Asian food cultures in the London food scene. Lahpet Burmese restaurant on bustling Bethnal Green Road in the heart of Shoreditch is trying to put that right. After a successful year-long pop-up in Hackney, founders Dan Anton and Head […]
Feria de Jerez at StreetXO London
StreetXO London, Tio Pepe and Feria de Jerez A last-minute invitation to preview the sherries on offer for the StreetXO Feria de Jerez sounded intriguing. I’m partial to a little sherry – and I’ve done enough sherry tastings and recipe development of my own with sherry now to understand a little about the complexity and […]
The Silk Road Comes to Knightsbridge – OSH
OSH Restaurant and Bar – Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge: I have a bit of a soft spot for Beauchamp Place. One of those pretty, quintessentially London streets and, a stone’s throw from Harvey Nichols and Harrods it’s also the perfect place to meet up with friends after a spot of shopping. The site now occupied by […]
Daddy Bao comes to Tooting
Taiwanese Tooting Comes of Age with Daddy Bao: You can tell when a part of London starts to become ‘up and coming’; coffee shops open, craft beers appear, and possibly a local gin is distilled. Over the past couple of years that certainly been true of Tooting, once only famous for being the home of […]
Getting Pickled with Chino Latino
Chino Latino’s Healthy Asian Dining: Having moved fairly recently to this part of London, I’m always thrilled when I am invited to a local restaurant for the first time. Albert Embankment in Lambeth is a 20-minute walk from home for me, home to MI6 and, as its name suggests, directly overlooking The Thames. I was […]