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Pub grub with a difference

THE traditionalist in me instantly recoiled. Dinner at a pub in a shopping centre? The whole concept is rather unnatural and so, to a certain extent, was the experience. The Bull serves pub food, draught lager, ale, fancy crisps, has a pool table and is furnished with lots of pubby things.Read

Squid in ink was a taste explosion

ON THE busy Shepherd's Bush Road is Los Molinos - an unpretentious-looking restaurant - but a tapas haven on a chill winter's night. You could easily miss this little oasis of Spanish cuisine - sitting just back from the hustle and bustle of a main artery into and out of Hammersmith and only a stone's throw from leafy Brook Green.Read

Smart dishes in the Pear Tree

HIDDEN away on a quiet residential street, not far from the chaotic Fulham Palace Road, stands a cosy little pub waiting to be discovered. Read

Restaurant Review: Los Molinos

ON the busy Shepherds Bush Road is Los Molinos an unpretentious looking restaurant – but a Tapas haven on a chill winter's night.Read

Dining with touch of French class

THERE are many great things about France. Paris, Monet, 'Allo 'Allo... the list is endless. But first among them has to be the food, or 'cuisine' as cross-Channel chums insist on calling it.Read

Fine dining? Go down the pub

LAST month, the Harwood Arms became the first London pub to earn a Michelin star. This back-street Fulham pub has won rave reviews for its inventive, yet reliable food, produced under the watchful eye of 27-year-old head chef Stephen Williams.Read

Caps doffed to a new arrival

TIME was when I believed I was gastrofying my local public house by smuggling in the Friday night doner kebab. But London has changed and bona fide 'gastros' now festoon localities like baubles on a tree, while the beer and burger boozers of my youth are looking increasingly ragged.Read

Marco's not a bridge too far

SOME think this restaurant reviewing lark is easy. Well it's not and here's why. This week I was invited to eat at Marco. The food was superb, fantastic, delightful and all the rest of it, befitting the Michelin chef Marco Pierre White - a man so notoriously hard he once made Gordon Ramsay cry.Read

I'll stick my neck out: it's very good

THE MOTTO of Giraffe restaurants is 'love eat live', and this certainly came across when I paid a visit to the Marylebone branch.Read

Cucina a must for fans of Italian food

THE buzz of people on a Wednesday night set the bar high for this Italian restaurant, which stands on the southern terrace in Westfield. Having walked past two of the seven eateries offering Italian in the shopping centre, I felt I'd picked the right one as we stepped into Ciao Baby Cucina.Read

Food for thought for Jamie Oliver

SINCE the River Cafe opened in Hammersmith 22 years ago, the idea of continually changing, seasonal cooking has been widely embraced by the restaurant industry.Read

Roe, what a lovely place to go and eat

JUST days after Christmas, my thoughts had turned to trying to lose some of the turkey and mince pie belly gained during the festive period. But when weighing up the options of exercising or trying out the seasonal menu at a gastropub just minutes from my house in Hammersmith, I was easily persuaded to pay a visit to The Roebuck.Read

Aqua's bold experiment

LIKE a West End club, Aqua's entrance is plush and ever-so-slightly foreboding. Instinctively, I tucked my shirt in, patted down the cow licks on my sparsely-haired head and avoided eye contact as I shuffled beyond the ear piece-wearing doormen.Read

Fusion lacks a certain punch

EVEN in the world of fusion foods, creating a Brazilian/Japanese restaurant seems a Neil Armstrong-like leap into the unknown. On the back of Brazil's blossoming Japanese population, that unusual step is exactly what the brave owners at Sushinho, in King's Road, have done.Read