Tag: scallop

Bonnie Gull
31/10/2019

Bonnie Gull

I know that playing hard to get can sometimes make things seem better than they actually are but this was a bit ridiculous. When I arrived at this restaurant, they didn’t seem to want to let me in at first.  Waving at the windows, I …

eating, England, London, review
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by Chris
Core
01/08/2019

Core

There seems to be something strangely attractive about Notting Hill Gate.  It seems to be running on a different time from the rest of London with stately mansions, high end cars parked on the side of the road and particularly well shod citizens in the …

eating, England, London, review
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by Chris
Frog
17/12/2018

Frog

Apparently the chef of Frog is somewhat of a celebrity. Having placed as a runner-up in MasterChef, Mr Handling did what any self-respecting competitor had to do, open his own restaurant.  This is how I ended up in version 2, based on the strident endorsement …

eating, England, London, review
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by Chris
Sushi Tetsu
21/09/2017

Sushi Tetsu

Life by contrast is a wonderful thing. If we didn’t have things to compare things to, life would instead resolve into an unending joyless, dreary, mundane trudge.  Or so that is what I tell myself every time I have a bad meal.  It just serves …

eating, England, London, review
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by Chris
Bayleaf
10/08/2017

Bayleaf

It is somewhat ironic that right after I complain about titles of restaurants being fairly non-descriptive and not providing many clues, (Kitchen Table, I am looking at you), I would then find myself in Bayleaf.  In this case, the name is a kind of a …

eating, England, London, review
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by Chris