I’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with keto for a while now. For those that don’t know, a ketogenic diet is one that severely restricts carbohydrates and keeps protein at moderate levels, whilst dramatically upping the amount of fat that you eat. It’s okay though, because you’ve been lied to your entire life.* It turns …
I wasn’t sure what to expect from Ristorante Semplice, for three reasons. I’ve heard mixed reviews of this place. It opened in 2007 and was warmly received by the critics; A.A. Gill even compared his fellow diner’s remarks to the dubbing of a porn film and give it 4.5/5 stars. Quite a few People From …
An entire restaurant devoted to hummus? Sounds a bit like airy-fairy vegetarian health food nonsense to me. At least, that was my initial reaction; I took a drunken chance on hummus one night and it paid off spectacularly. Since then I’ve been back a few times and even introduced a number of people to the …
I had a confusing lunch at Yalla Yalla a few days ago. I’m not really sure what to make of the place. The general consensus seems to be that Yalla Yalla is a Good Thing – just check out the blog posts on its Urbanspoon page. I’ve even been once before and had a reasonably …
If you use good-quality fresh ingredients and don’t tart around with it too much, it’s hard to mess up Italian food. Keep things simple and you will succeed. I know that I’m stating the obvious here but sometimes that’s okay. Carbonara? Eggs and cream, next. Caprese salad? Buffalo mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil; if you add …
La Porchetta is our office’s default pizza place in Soho. If we ever feel like consuming 1,000 calories or so over lunch, we have this place on speed dial so that our order will be ready for collection when we get there. We dined in recently due to our office’s very generous policy of buying …
“The Bountiful Cow – a public house devoted to beef.” Possibly the best description of a pub that I have ever encountered. This place has it all; and when I say that they have it all, I mean that they have ridiculously large burgers for a very reasonable price. So I guess that they don’t …
I am currently binging on Thai food. Not in a gross literal sense, but still. My last two reviews have been of Thai restaurants; I went back to Esarn Kheaw for seconds last Friday; I had Thai for lunch yesterday (this review); and today I’m going to a Thai restaurant for the office Christmas meal. …
I’ve mentioned before that I don’t go out for Indian food that often, but Imli serves the type of Indian food that I can get on board with. I like my Indian food light and fragrant – not heavy, hot and oily. Always on the lookout for a bargain, we recently took advantage of an …
We have a new Thursday tradition in our office: we take it in turns at finding a restaurant which costs £10 or less per person. This is easy as we work in Soho, and there are eight of us (we’re a web/social networking startup). The company then very kindly buys us lunch. I think that …