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...
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Le Bab - not a middle-class term of endearment - is a brand new restaurant in Soho's Kingly Court. Perched up high on the 2nd floor, Le Bab are sure fire set to revolutionise and change London's opinion of kebabs. The thought-leaders and cooking demons from Le Bab's team were previously at Le Gavroche and have said they are 'reinvigorating kebabs with provenance, seasonality and technique'. With none of that end-of-the-night kebab shop swagger, we entered the slick, setting. It was modern and very relaxed and housed a lively mixture of daters and pals alike. The succinct menu of...
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Read more →Specific days and months get bad press. January's and Monday being the biggest victims in this calendary system of hate. Making things worse, who can think of a more hated Monday than that last Monday in January – the last Monday before payday. Alleviating the pain and reminding you that resolutions are definitely more do-able in any other month are the saintly people at Aqua. High up and godly on the 5th floor of their Argyll Street residence, they have come up with a menu that's as kind on your insides and it is to the contents of your purse. The New Year Solutions menu contains no mor...
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