I remember living on Chapel Market in Angel ten years ago. It was well before the likes of Waitrose and vegan bakeries had landed. Instead of swank, the road contained a cocktail of pound shops and bizarre hardware outlets. There was also a menagerie of proper ‘boozers’, many of which I never made it into due to feeling a little intimidated by the blacked-out windows and glow of fruit machines illuminating out from the door. The Agricultural, located at the end of Chapel Market, was one of the pubs I failed to frequent. So when I heard that it had been transformed into a trendy bar and eat...
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I offered to take my friend Toby out for dinner. At first he took up the invitation with enthusiasm but this excitement soon waned after he Googled the restaurant to discover it was vegetarian. No meat on the premises. 'Guess I'd better get my bacon fix beforehand,' he jibed before our outing. Knowing Toby was a big fan of all things meat - turkey, bacon, steak and I even recall him talking about eating chicken feet on one occasion - I had purposely left out the minor fact that we were venturing to a herbivore's paradise. The Gate restaurant - which started in Hammersmith, London, and...
Read more →Zilouf’s new menu features cleverly devised, well-priced and complex East-meets-West dishes. Each plate was considered, ideal for sharing and left us wanting more.
Read more →Taking on London with a pronged attack, the Cabana team are come at us from all points of the compass. Starting in the West (Sheppard’s Bush Westfield), then swooping in at the East (Stratford Westfield), and then scattering across Wembley and Covent Garden, they have now planted their latest edition in Upper Street, Islington. The founders, Jamie Barber and David Ponte have intended the space to be a glance into modern Brasil. Interior architect Alex Michaelis (of Byron and Pizza East), has kept continuity from site to site with their trademark “up-cycled” denim seating (hand-made in Brasi...
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