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Out Of The Frying Pan: January 2014
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Out Of The Frying Pan. An alternative take on London eating. Wednesday, 29 January 2014. Zuma: Knightsbridge, Saturday 22nd December, 2012. High society is a funny thing. Especially if you are a fan of Ry Doon. As I am. If you believe the Boston comedian, there ain't much to being in the upper echelons of class anywhere. In London, it's a bit more complicated than courting pigeons' company. Which neither of us particularly enjoyed. And black sesame did not appeal much to me since it sounded like a waste ...
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Out Of The Frying Pan: April 2014
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Out Of The Frying Pan. An alternative take on London eating. Friday, 11 April 2014. Polpo: Covent Garden, Sunday March 31st, 2013. Has served us well since it opened on Soho's Beak Street. There have been occasional trips back and we have recommended it to just about everyone because if you want affordable, charismatic, fashionable Italian food; this is it. Covent Garden has been re-branded from the original guise of Da Polpo. Pub, just to keep things fresh. We kept things very standard with our next two...
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Out Of The Frying Pan: June 2014
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Out Of The Frying Pan. An alternative take on London eating. Friday, 13 June 2014. Ducksoup: Soho, Thursday April 25th, 2013. Back in the days when this blog was only laughably out of date, I wrote a review of a Ducksoup dinner for three. It was an unexpectedly enjoyable evening with some impressive dishes which still stick in the memory today. Some time on - with the blog now hilariously out of date - I'm writing about another visit there when four of us went for dinner. It was back to familiar and reli...
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Out Of The Frying Pan: September 2014
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Out Of The Frying Pan. An alternative take on London eating. Saturday, 13 September 2014. Mews Of Mayfair - Mayfair, Friday May 17th, 2013. This was a third visit to Mews Of Mayfair. The first having been in pre-blog days, and the wife plus two companions and I essentially decided on going there because nowhere else would be able to fit us in on a Friday night at short notice. It's not the most glamorous of reasons to choose anywhere but sometimes necessity dictates the way. Links to this post. Out Of Th...
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Out Of The Frying Pan: Another Wedding Celebration - The Zetter Hotel: Clerkenwell, Saturday May 25th, 2013
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Out Of The Frying Pan. An alternative take on London eating. Monday, 13 April 2015. Another Wedding Celebration - The Zetter Hotel: Clerkenwell, Saturday May 25th, 2013. A place about which I have vowed not to write more about. This meant we could only celebrate with a small selection of family and very close friends. We'd been to The Zetter. Weddings can be painfully formal, formulaic things. I'm happy to say that, when the wife and I did it, we did it how we wanted to. Three times over might be...Rugby...
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Out Of The Frying Pan: May 2014
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Out Of The Frying Pan. An alternative take on London eating. Friday, 30 May 2014. Bone Daddies: Soho, Sunday April 7th, 2013. I tend to enjoy thick, rich, velouté. Style soups. The kinds of bowls which are the kind of sumptuous thing you need a spoon to eat, rather than being able to drink it out of a glass. Since Asian soups are most often thin they don't quite sit well with me. That said, anything one terms as 'soup' which also contains cuts of meat, eggs, vegetables and other tasty gubbins...Bone Dadd...
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Out Of The Frying Pan: March 2014
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Out Of The Frying Pan. An alternative take on London eating. Wednesday, 26 March 2014. One Last Hurrah - Launceston Place: Kensington, Sunday 3rd February, 2013. And so it comes to pass: my last review of Launceston Place. As with another long-standing favourite of mine, Le Vacherin, this is somewhere the wife and I have enjoyed in every way since I first went there. The food, as ever, was near-faultless. It was predictably similar to the menu we'd sampled about six weeks earlier. But it didn't diminish ...
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Out Of The Frying Pan: Number One: The Ledbury – Notting Hill, Monday 18th October, 2010
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Out Of The Frying Pan. An alternative take on London eating. Tuesday, 14 June 2011. Number One: The Ledbury – Notting Hill, Monday 18th October, 2010. On to the matter of food, there was heaven on a plate and there were touches of showy pretence which I could've done without but overall I really enjoyed myself. The foie gras. Tartlets to kick things off were just what I wanted after stepping inside after a walk from Ladbroke Grove: fatty, smooth and satisfying. My starter was a raviolo. It was creamy, ri...
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Out Of The Frying Pan: Soho Food Feast - Saturday 8th June, 2013
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Out Of The Frying Pan. An alternative take on London eating. Monday, 13 April 2015. Soho Food Feast - Saturday 8th June, 2013. The first thing we tried were a couple of oysters from the Wright Brothers. The next was an interesting-sounding dish from 10 Greek Street. The Dean Street Townhouse. I'd not heard of the Pitstop Café. Before. They had a stall at the event and were serving dumplings (left). These were prawn-filled, gyoza. The founding venture of MeatLiquor. Had set up a stall on the day and their...
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Out Of The Frying Pan: November 2013
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Out Of The Frying Pan. An alternative take on London eating. Tuesday, 12 November 2013. Remembering a Classic: Medlar - Chelsea, Saturday October 20th, 2012. Writing about great food is pretty easy. Making such writing interesting is probably the hard part (and I welcome any comments on how bland and uninspiring my script can be), along with explaining why. Something was so delicious and awe-inspiring. I think, in all honesty, that's the essence of being a good critic. Which is definitely not easy. Biscu...
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