A meal at Vins, Canonbury
Vins is an intimate restaurant & wine bar in Islington, near Canonbury station and Newington Green. We were invited to try their food.
A meal or two at Vegan Yes, Brick Lane
Exploring the unknown: vegan food! My colleague Paul and I sometimes treat ourselves to a lunch out. Being near Liverpool Street, we have plenty of choice around us yet he’s vegetarian so we have to pick somewhere with enough choice for him to have a satisfying meal. A couple of weeks ago we were trying to decided where to go when he smugly announced: ‘I’ve found a perfect place: Vegan Yes in Brick Lane’. He sent me the menu…
A meal at Mere, Fitzrovia
*** THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED *** I had been meaning to try out Mere for a while, pretty much in fact since Monica Galetti opened it after leaving her previous post of many years at Le Gavroche. She’s a formidable lady who seems a lovely person as well as a talented chef and I had been keen to try her food because of her south pacific roots as well. A London visit by my kiwi friend Jo seemed the…
A meal at Kerridge’s Bar & Grill, London
A river runs through… The meandering silhouette of the Thames unites Marlow to London on slick, elegant menus. Why? Because Marlow is where Tom Kerridge’s pubs (including Michelin starred The Hand and Flowers) are located and by London’s Embankment is where he has just launched his new venue within the sumptuous Corinthia Hotel. Kerridge’s Bar and Grill is a far cry from his Marlow outposts, at least in look and feel. The venue Dark colours, tones of emerald green and…
The Albert Arms, SE1 – restaurant review
Note this review pertains to the previous management, which has since left the pub. As readers of this blog and our friends would know, since moving ‘south’ towards Elephant & Castle we’ve been making huge use of the local, rare gems (for eample coffee shops). One such gems is a gastro pub (is such definition still even valid?) literally around two corners from our flat called the Albert Arms. Not sure why it took us a couple of months before…