Restaurant Reviews from April 2011

April 2011 Restaurant Reviews Archive from Foodepedia

  • The Folly

    Phillip Azevedo
    Saturday April 30th, 2011

    A foolish undertaking, or an extravagant structure built to serve as a conversation piece? The Folly in Gracechurch Street looks to becoming a talking-point in the City.

  • India Dining, Warlingham

    Nick Harman
    Monday April 25th, 2011

    They say that the Warlingham area has more millionaires than anywhere else in England, outside of London that is. There’s one less this month though after the sad demise of local lad Smiley Culture.  Apparently Mr Culture’s cash came from wisely investing the modest sums he made from his 80s hit singles like Police Officer into gold and diamond mine concessions in places like Liberia, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

  • Barbican Lounge

    akandpa (Alan King)
    Sunday April 24th, 2011

    The Barbican Lounge is a relatively new restaurant, the space having been completely renovated, retaining a 60’s/70’s style (yeah baby!). The menu is anything but 60’s/70’s, they have gone for tapas style eating. So, if you just want some great food served in a tapas style while enjoying a relaxed atmosphere, it's a great place to visit.

  • The Canteen – Axminster, Devon

    Lois London
    Friday April 22nd, 2011

    Despite probably having never worked in an office or factory in his life (Old Etonians don't, do they?), Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has opened a Canteen. Lois London joins the Barbour'd up crowd cramming in to cram it all down.

  • Pollen Street Social

    Nick Harman
    Wednesday April 20th, 2011

    What’s already apparent is that Jason has melded the elements of  inventive, creative ‘Feen Deening’ with the link so often missing in such food – real flavour.  Add to that a relaxed ‘vibe’ to the New Yorky room - we are not in The Church of Food here, you are allowed to talk and laugh - and it all just feels right.

  • Wahaca-Soho

    Nick Harman
    Thursday April 14th, 2011

    You have to watch what you say about Mexico and Mexicans, as Jeremy Clarkson found out. So lest the big guns of the PC police become brought to bear on me let’s be perfectly clear about one thing – my reluctance to eat Mexican food has nothing to do with any dislike of the country or its inhabitants, but stems from historical bad experiences of the stuff.

  • Michael Caines at ABode, Glasgow

    Caroline Sargent
    Thursday April 14th, 2011

    Lo, good people of Glasgow, please take a bow. All my preconceptions about you and your city have been Glasgow-kissed goodbye. From your stylish train station replete with Champagne Bar, to your Palladian architecture, your friendliness and your food, I concede I was wrong to think less than kind thoughts.

  • Trullo

    Anita Pati
    Tuesday April 12th, 2011

    Hurray, Trullo! Some nine months after it opened, I have finally been! Brushing past it on my way to Highbury & Islington tube, this esteemed neighbourhood restaurant, in my own neighbourhood, has been rammed happy every time I pass. It’s been impossible to book, I had to wait over a month for a two-hour window and that only at 7pm on a Monday evening but I pounced on it. This place is in high demand.

  • The Steak Exchange, Exchange Square, London

    Marcus Sedghi
    Monday April 11th, 2011

    I'm a big avocate of keeping things simple, so when a restaurant serving top quality steak opens on Exchange Square and adopts the name of The Steak Exchange it's already made it into my good books

  • 1 Lombard Street

    Anita Pati
    Monday April 11th, 2011

    Hackney hackles all a quiver, Anita Pati finds she has to choke back her class warrior gut feelings as she guiltily spoons some rather fine scallops into her mouth. Sometimes, she has to admit, posh food is really rather nice and that most bankers are from Essex anyway.

  • Chez Gerard, Tower of London

    akandpa (Alan King)
    Wednesday April 6th, 2011

    The restaurant has an authentic French feel about it reminding me in its style of several I have visited in Paris over the years. Chez Gerard, Tower of London, certainly didn’t feel like part of a chain, the food was very good indeed. We certainly enjoyed our meal there.

  • Bonds, Threadneedle Street

    Florence Hillier
    Saturday April 2nd, 2011

    Tucked into the back alleys of the city of London, Bonds bar and restaurant deserves a look in from those who don't work within a one mile radius of its doors. 

  • Bistro 21 Durham

    Annie Lund
    Friday April 1st, 2011

    If any restaurant is allowed to paint itself a rather alarming shade of yellow, it is one situated in a complex of council buildings, in this case between Durham County Hall and what was, I think, the offices of the waste disposal unit