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well, i hope you come back, disgusted. you made life a bit more interesting.
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oh, and for the record, my mailbox routinely drips with vented spleen, usually cc'd to editors and managing directors. and of a much more personal nature than i'd ever dish out. gosh, you chefs are an inventive lot!
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But thats because you a bloody troublemaker.
moi? [wronged innocence emoticon]
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Sorry Jay and M
don't apologise, a
just look at asia de cuba. eviscerated by every pundit in town on opening (justifiably imo), still packing 'em in.oh, and for the record, my mailbox routinely drips with vented spleen, usually cc'd to editors and managing directors. and of a much more personal nature than i'd ever dish out. gosh, you chefs are an inventive lot!
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bibendum - are you kiddin'? i wouldn't even go if it were free
marvellous!
any details? scoop? general dissing?
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Of the restaurants on your list that I have visited Tom Aikens, The Square,Le Gavroche, Chez Bruce, La Trompette, Bibendum, 1880, Bentley hotel and Gordon Ramsay, I would say that, if money is no object, Ramsay is the most appropriate for a 10th Anniversary meal.
andy - have you written a review of 1880? can't find it, if you have.
and, on the strength of recent meals there, i'd say tom aikens.
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Very good cassoulet yesterday at The Hartley situated handily for the glamour of the Old Kent Road. Starter of snail, bacon & parsley salad was correct to.
yep, the hartley's lovely. really sweet staff, too.
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i really liked it - thought the food both imaginative and assured, full of unfamiliar ingredients like lemon myrtle and quandong. really great 'secret' bar, too.
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or diet irn-bru if you're from the west end
my brother claims he can tell the difference between Irn Bru from a tin and Irn Bru from a glass bottle. oh, the discerning palates in my family.
can't everyone?
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of course, in glasgow, a filled roll of any denomination isn't complete without a deep-fried potato scone.
and a tin of Irn Bru. or an Irn Bru float, if you're hungover.
or diet irn-bru if you're from the west end
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of course, in glasgow, a filled roll of any denomination isn't complete without a deep-fried potato scone.
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yep. like supermarket sushi. bleargh.
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All magically accompanied with sliced roast carrots (god knows what he did to them but it was hard to believe it was merely roast carrots)
i know! those carrots! it was like they'd been long-braised in some kind of fragrant stock before being roasted/caramelised into a kind of fondanty super-carrot. amazing.
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by no means posh but incredibly child-friendly is an italian called ciao bella in lambs conduit st. pizzas and pastas at reasonable prices.
also in lambs conduit st is the perseverance - took my children there during the summer, great place to eat outside.
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went to a really sweet little gastropub called the hartley. ridiculously cheap and an entertaining mix of sophisticated - foie gras, ham knuckle and chicken terrine - and down-to-earth - shepherd's pie.
food really a lot better than we expected: great pork belly with black pudding, crab 'russian' salad, goats cheese fritters. fabulous ice-creams like bread and butter pud or black pepper made in house.
64 tower bridge road, se1. 7394 7023
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look forward to hearing about it!!
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since my 'date' was 90 years old, i'm afraid it was only the lunch doing it for me...
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i would love
to return for dinner.are you offering, moby?
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hunan has been a huge favourite of mine, one of the few restaurants in london i go back to time and time again.
however, my past couple of meals here (the leave-it-to-mr-peng specials) have seemed a little tired and formulaic, like they're resting on their laurels a bit.
having said that, if you've never been, it's leagues ahead of most of the 'chinese' operations about. and the tea and camphor smoked duck is definitely worth the price of admission.
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i've posted elsewhere on this. but anyway...
i wasn't massively blown away by my first (evening) visit to aikens, but a recent lunch there had me speechless with pleasure at the skill - and importantly, the deliciousness - of the food.
lightyears ahead of the connaught in terms of complexity and artistry, i'd say.
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As a resident I should resent that remark, but you are right! It has taken many years of disappointments to find my favourite locals.
howard
just moved to knightsbridge and am having the same probs. the obvious ones i know - but desperate for any other little out of the way places i could lunch in.
have you been to the swag and tails?
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Howard - have you tried Tom Aiken's yet?
not howard - but i went to tom aikens for lunch this week and had one of the best meals in a long, long, loooooong time.
staggeringly assured, astonishingly complex - what was described as a lentil 'soup' was actually (deep breath) a bowl of a kind of liquidy frothy mousse, almost truffly in flavour, separated by two strips of crispy ventreche from a 'cassonade' - like a savoury creme brulee of lentils, two slabs of stickily flawless pork belly and a giant, silky raviolo.
the rest of the meal was equally intricate, equally good. the breads alone are astonishing. and it costs £24.50 (i think...) for three courses.
i enjoyed it far more than when i'd been for dinner.
well deserving of - at least - that one star.
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the Mint Leaf (lower Regent St),
don't bother with this overpriced, inauthentic, style-over-content, hakkasan-in-indian-clothing clone.
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best lounge = loungelover. no contest.
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"The decor was "fake, dreary, cheap and pompous"; the vinaigrette with his cold asparagus was "an insipid, feckless mayonnaise" that made him wish he had had Hellman's; and the crab and brandy soup reminded him of one of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction ("When I say... that were it found in a canister buried in the Iraqi desert, it would save Tony Blair's skin, I exaggerate only slightly"). It was, he concluded, the "eighth circle of hell"."
This accurately describes 90% of the restaurants in London
serves you right for eating in angus steak houses
don't think you're quite up to speed with the new millennium, are you?
AA Gill and Co
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ooh andy dearest one, don't be like that. i love you all madly but you know i enjoy a good fight.
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