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I've never taken afternoon tea in London so can't give a personal recommendation.
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Ok here's a toughie
a friends wants a restaurant where they serve good meat and good vegetarian food?
is such a restaurant possible???
located in London
budget can be extortionate
as long as the food is top notch.
i thanks you all in advance
if budget no object, try roussillon in pimlico. all the hautish meat stuff is there, but alexis gauthier is particularly hot on veggies.
also, morgan m - the garden menu is so good you'd hardly miss meat and he usually does game extremely well.
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that is a genuine shame...
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Its basically about restaurants that I've visited that are simply not offering the goods in my area (Kent), and probably in yours too.
whereabouts in kent? i spend a lot of time in north kent (previously whitstable, now, er, the isle of thanet) and whereas the former has a few excellent gaffs (the sportsman, the dove at dargate, jo-jo's, the oyster stores at a pinch if you don't mind lack of sophistication coupled with attitude).
but thanet is a desert. i despair. other than bruno delamare in the art room who is aiming for a michelin star in margate. yup, you heard right, margate. and he might even do it...
but anyway, why the dearth of decent restaurants in the garden of england? the reason i've heard from a lot of locals is that, if they want a great dinner, they simply hop over to france ....
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I think it shows a complete lack of imagination, but I think we'll have to agree to disagree otherwise we could be at this all night. (You can have the last word though if you like, I'll be a gentleman about it!)
but it's not about imagination, is it? it's about who's supposed to be the best.
and thanks for my last word
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but they clearly thought sketch was the best. so....
i don't see any reason why the same place shouldn't win the same prize. if it's still considered to be the best. otherwise it's like that episode of the simpsons when homer wins the employee of the month award because they've already given it to everyone else.
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I don't understand the reasoning behind having an award for best design and then giving it to the same restaurant (Sketch) 2 years running, that's just crazy.
because it has the best design 2 years running?
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i notice the chap in question is currently reading this thread. maybe he'd like to put his tuppence-worth in...?
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I got just what I wanted at a noodle bar called Samurai on Panton Street early on Saturday evening.
i really liked samurai. a class act. the home-made gyoza were phenomenal.
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it would be over a year ago. and it was genuinely poor: ineptly executed with duff quality ingredients delivered with the sort of condescending service i thought had gone out with the ark.
and, sorry, no we don't revisit unless something significant happens - new chef, new name, total revamp. anyway, if food was so bad, why would we?
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I've blanked it from my memory, but I might go back if you liked it. When were you there last Circe?
This may be news to brighten the day- looks like Seraphim has closed. Can anyone else confirm this?
sorry suzi - have just seen this. it was about a year ago admittedly, but since the two women cooking/front of house were also the owners, i can't imagine what could have caused such a decline...
and as to seraphim, i think that's a shame. the chef was a loony, ahem, eccentric - crocodile with chocolate sauce, pancetta ice cream - but he could really cook.
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my mother makes praline ice cream and stem ginger ice cream.
both are to. die. for.
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i reviewed it. had a truly indifferent meal - verging on the bad - which i duly reported incurring the wrath of eric who fired off an extremely irate missive to my managing director.
what fun!
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Big disappointment is that I expected that MSG/flavour enhancer/monosodium glutamate/E621 would not rear its ugly head in a place of this class but it was very clear that they do use it.
how do you know?
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nevermind
i'm just being silly!! so the shu mai also came in 3 ??!
i'm shocked!! yeah i didn't think new world would have improved greatly as it is very much a tourist attraction now.
although i went to cheung cheun ku a few weeks back and it was pretty ok stuff
nothing earth shattering but acceptable.
btw have you been to golden palace in harrow ?
its very good if you haven't
i'm re-remembering. maybe they did come in fours.
and, no - i must try it.
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erm, ahem...
...from uk media thread.
registration required, i believe. but it's free...
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Har Gau prawn dumplings £2.30
Now here is were I start to become unimpressed.
In every and I do mean every dim sum restaurant.
There should be 4 dumplings but in this case there are only 3!!
Pork Shu mai £2.10
Same story again only 3 pieces when there should be 4!
context.
respectively.
capice?
mama mia! what a mistaka to maka!!
hehehe!!
eh?????
just to add another tuppence worth to this, i had dim sum at new world in gerrard place at the weekend - and you don't get more old school or unreconstructed than this. it's one of only two, i think, trolley-style dim sum restos in town (the other is chuen cheng ku).
guess what? dim sum - all apart from har gau, weirdly - came in threes.
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btw
did the shu mai come in a 3 or 4?
how did you rate New World? good or bad?
three...
and, post yauatcha and hakkasan, pretty badly. guess i've been spoilt. those shu mai were grim, like gnarly little testicles of gristle. shudder. and words fail me when it comes to a parcel of impacted rice that appeared to be stuffed with baby poo and mouse bones.
also, trolleys meant everything was kinda tepid. loved the experience, though. call me contrary.
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Har Gau prawn dumplings £2.30
Now here is were I start to become unimpressed.
In every and I do mean every dim sum restaurant.
There should be 4 dumplings but in this case there are only 3!! And that is why the prices look so cheap.
this works out to be 30p more per dish over chinatown. just to add another tuppence worth to this, i had dim sum at new world in gerrard place at the weekend - and you don't get more old school or unreconstructed than this. it's one of only two, i think, trolley-style dim sum restos in town (the other is chuen cheng ku).
guess what? dim sum - all apart from har gau, weirdly - came in threes.
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If you can't guess by the sound of my head whacking against the desk (I'll post an mp3 of that shortly), AA Gill writes about.. No, I can't even bring myself to tell you. Go here and find out. Let's just say it's not a resoundingly positive review of a place that everyone else (and I do mean the majority of the english-speaking world, it seems) is in a frenzy of adulation over.
everyone else apart from little ol' me....
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been to both zigni house and tobia recently. quite an experience. zigni is eritrean, tobia hardcore ethiopian - avoid the terrifying tef!
but really worth checking out, especially as the bills are laughably low.
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really interesting write-up, origami.
but i'm confused. i'm positive i've been served with only three pieces in chinatown restos - have had to double up on faves like roast pork puffs.
are they being tight too?
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er, new gordon ramsay...
Just to satisfy my own curiosity, here's a list of the most-reviewed places so far...Silk - Terry Durack, Giles Coren, AA Gill
Glas - Terry Durack, Jay Rayner, Fay Maschler
The Garden Cafe - Giles Coren, Tracy MacLeod, Helen Nicholson
Deep - Jan Moir, Fay Maschler, Marina O'Loughlin, Caroline Stacey
The bloody Ledbury - Fay Maschler, Jan Moir, Tracy MacLeod, Terry Durack, Giles Coren.
i've done silk and the bloody ledbury too!
Re the Ledbury don't watch this space. Not minded to review, for reasons I'll expand upon if any body is that interested, but they won't be.go on, you've got me. dish!
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I was trying to figure that out. Their website shows a location on in Knightsbrige on Wlliam Street, but reviews only mention the Belgravia location. Noura Knightsbridge
that's the noura cafe. right beside ishbilia.
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Bring Your Recommendations for 1st Timer
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afternoon tea doesn't preclude alcohol. champagne and scones are rather lovely together. dunno about old speckled peculiar or whatever it is you have to endure in pubs, though.
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