Restaurants – London

Crussh, Jubilee Place

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  My first-ever visit to Crussh at Jubilee Place in Canary Wharf got off to a slightly hysterical start.  In the course of making arrangements via e-mail, Michelle’s typing error had transformed MD Chris Fung’s name into Chris FUN.  ”You’re kidding – he must be a real fun guy!”, I quipped, not realising until Chris [...]

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Great Taste @ The Cadogan

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  The Great Taste Awards were started in the mid-1990s by the Guild of Fine Food to recognise excellence in speciality and artisan British producers.  Producers submit their products which are then judged by at least three different panels at three different venues.  All the tasting by the over 350 judges, who include fine food [...]

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Corrigan’s Mayfair

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  When is a wine not a real wine?  And no, this is not a “how long is a piece of string” type of nonsense question with no answer; nor is it a reference to the disturbing “wine-style beverages” that you sometimes find lurking in the dark corners of the supermarket wine aisles, that bear [...]

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Feng Sushi Billingsgate with Silla Bjerrum

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  When I was at school, one of my brother’s friends used to refer to himself as “having grown up in the Bronx”.  With a ponceyness well beyond his years, he was appropriating for himself the role of the poor underdog, making his way in his world of rich kids using only his razor sharp [...]

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The Balcon with Donald Russell

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  For somebody who has never classed herself as a rampant eater of steak, preferring fish or chicken while hubby chows down on the rump and sirloin, I’ve certainly been falling off the wagon lately.  First there was my perfect sirloin with Tasmanian pepper sauce; then there was the blue cheese & pecan risotto topped [...]

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The Angel & Crown

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  They say that practice makes perfect.  If that is indeed the case, then Ed and Tom Martinmust by now be approaching the perfect pub.  Having previously opened a string of successful gastropubs including The Botanist, The Chiswell Street Dining Rooms, The White Swan, the Cadogan Arms and The Gun, they recently opened their first West End pub:  The [...]

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All Star Lanes, Westfield Stratford

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  Isn’t it funny how a single smell or sound can transport you instantly from the here and now into the way back when?  For me, the smell of a certain air freshener whisks me back to Grahamstown in the early 1990s.  I was staying in a motel on my own for two weeks, conducting the hopeless pro bono [...]

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