Danielle Woodward steps back in time in this Victorian pub and restaurant in Maida Vale.

Bangalore Express is certainly an interesting place; my initial reservations about the hotel-style menu were sent packing by the presentation and the flavours. 

If Balcon can just up the standard of desserts, make the execution match up to the conception, I’d say they’d be a real destination restaurant and not simply a’hotel restaurant’. The cooking is much, much better than that.

Whatever your preference, it’s refreshing to go to an Indian restaurant offering something different from the norm. There is adventure, innovation and some great flavours in the food at Thali.

A now venerable Soho Indian restaurant has had a brush and polish and Nick finds the food and the prices are as good, if not better, than ever.

If a pub is going to successfully serve the crowds of both Hackney and Islington, The Hops and Glory might just be it.

Tracy enjoys seafood among the rooftops, a cow and a flamingo or two…

It got a bit of a pasting when it started, but Lucy finds Vico has pulled its socks up and come back a winner.

 Areeba! Nick finds a Mexican restaurant that doesn’t make him go’meeeehhh’.

Emma tries Social pantry, the foodie entent cordiale taking a bite our of London’s catering scene