At a casual glance, Reubens appears to be a fairly standard café/delicatessen. There’s a long glass counter displaying salads and soups, a fridge containing the usual array of canned drinks and fruit juices, and a basic if functional area towards the back where you take your meal on a little wooden tray after paying for it. It’s the kind of sandwich shop scattered all over the City and West End to serve office workers and tourists – nothing remarkable, nothing wrong with that
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Reubens, Baker Street
Even in chilly and blustery late March, St Ives is a popular place. While the sun was out, the shops and bars on the waterfront were seemingly never short of customers, and the chocolate-box narrow streets and whitewashed cottages behind teemed with day trippers and young families. Heaven knows how difficult it is to get a reservation in the Porthminster Beach Café in season, for even now, from the moment they open for lunch until late into the evening, it seems every table is taken.
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Porthminster Beach Café, St. Ives
There’s something commendably unapologetic about the way Testi, an Ocakbasi grill in Stoke Newington, displays it’s most (in)famous ingredient in their front window. There, pride of place in one of those glass cabinets a high-street kebab shop may use to hold marinating chicken shish or lamb koftes, are a dozen alarmingly large raw lamb’s testicles, looking like fleshy plums next to the more prosaic rib joints and kidneys. I had made a special journey to Testi to eat these things, and I wasn’t about to change my mind, but I do have to admit to a certain amount of trepidation once I was staring at them in the flesh, so to speak
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Testi, Stoke Newington
It’s really felt like Spring in London the last couple of days. Mornings have been clear and bright, the daytime air is dry and noticeably warmer than before, and it’s even been light on my journey home in the evenings. And with the change in the weather the restaurants in the capital – well, the good ones – will start taking advantage of seasonal ingredients and revamp their menus, so it’s out with parsnips and hotpots and game, and in with asparagus, spring lamb and lemon sole.
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The Hawksmoor Burger
I wouldn’t, under any circumstances, expect to get the meal of my life in any of the flashy bars in Shoreditch. People don’t go to places like the Electricity Showrooms or the Light Bar for that – they go to drink pints of Hoegaarden and sugary mojitos and shout at their friends. There’s a very clear distinction between places you go to eat (Hawksmoor, Saf, The Diner, Rivington Grill) and places that serve food to go with your drinks (everywhere else)
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The Hoxton Pony, Shoreditch
After four years of London theater watching, I’ve got several restaurants * I make regular visits to on show nights. This is my overview of the best cheap eats to be found in London’s theater-land, from Covent Garden, Leicester Square, …
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For reasons which will doubtless never be completely explained, the whole of South London is currently suffering from an epidemic of Massive Pointless Holes In The Road. Quite a feat of engineering they are too, so deep you can’t see the bottom, supported by huge steel girders and a good twenty foot across. They’re a constant source of fascination to the kids in Battersea, who chuck empty cans of Pepsi down them, perhaps to listen for the clang and figure out how deep they are.
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The Horseshoe, Hampstead
The best London tapas restaurant by far is Elche in Leytonstone, which is by far the most authentic Tapas restaurant in London. Great value with a superb Tapas buffet, 3 tapas and a drink lunch which combined with friendly service and …
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London's best tapas – Features – Time Out London
If you want to beat the clock but still have a slap-up meal at lunch, look out for the express lunch deals at London’s best restaurants , places that guarantee to have you fed, watered and back at your desk within an hour. … drawing on classic French recipes and fine British ingredients in dishes such as smoked chicken and foie gras terrine, and pork and Madeira with cabbage
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With the Olympic Games gripping London, now’s the perfect time to sample Beijing-style cuisine – without leaving the capital. They say Beijing locals are so obsessed with food that the phrase ‘Che fan le ma?’ – ‘have you eaten?
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London's best Chinese restaurants| Restaurants | This is London
As preparation for my emigration, I extend an invitation to you all to add to this list of delicious snacks, nibblings, meals and general devourings made available in London, all of which I grew up with and will sorely miss. If you have any of your own, please, feel free to comment and leave your thoughts! Robertson’s Golden Shred Marmalade.
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The Long Gastronomical Goodbye
This week saw the publication of the first ever Michelin Guide to Tokyo and it was a serious blow to French culinary self-esteem. Tokyo got an amazing total of 191 stars, more than twice as many as Paris, which boasts only 91, …
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London's best Japanese restaurants| Restaurants | This is London
London’s best chips are named today. A survey of the capital’s restaurants has found that the chefs at Le Comptoir Gascon in Farringdon fry the finest frites. Tasters who visited the French bistro in Charterhouse Street described sampling …
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My theory as to why somewhere like The Fat Badger can thrive, in spite of the stark contrast between its upper-middle-class patrons and the residents of the surrounding area, is because London’s metropolitan elite no longer cares about social justice. On the contrary, all their political energies have been diverted into green issues – and, in particular, … Book Online.
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PC cooking for the 'in' crowd| Restaurants | This is London
London’s top restaurants are nearly all fully booked in the run-up to Christmas. Many are turning away customers and telling them to come back in the New Year. Restaurants that still have tables available before Christmas can post …
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Table for two? Come back in 2007| Restaurants | This is London
Reg chose another Brazilian speciality, picanha, a cut of steak taken from the top of the sirloin which is enthusiastically seasoned with sal grosso (rock salt) before grilling. Pepper had also been flung on with … Mark-ups seemed not even commercial.
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Eat to the beat at Boteco| Restaurants | This is London
As interesting as his fame is what Jamie has done with it: taking at-risk kids off the street and training them to cook; setting up a charity that would keep them working at one of London”s trendiest restaurants ; and working to bring …
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