While arranging to meet friends for dinner in Banglatown this evening, we stumbled across something that sounds delightfully, and deliciously, complementary. As part of the Voices of Bengal exhibition at the British Museum, there will be a talk starting at 6.30pm tonight titled Bengal Food …
The Royal Thai restaurant on Caledonian Road. Decent, unassuming Asian cuisine at a reasonable price. Our one quibble…not the most veggie-friendly of places, judging from item 54. It might also explain how Tom Yum soup gets its name. *With apologies to the three-quarters of our …
Every year the Which? Good Food Guide announce their ‘Premier League of restaurants’ and every year London comes top of the table. Indeed, this year, out of the 1200 or so restaurants that make up the list, 333 of them were in London, and the …
Mmmmm. Chocolate. From the humblest coating on a brittle caramel wafer to the most divine and fairly traded gold-foil covered slab, the sweet stuff is a special treat for most people. For some, it is a necessity. Whether you’re a recreational chocolate user or the …
Alan Crompton-Batt: 23rd March 1954 – 21st September 2004 Londonist raises a glass in memory of a bon viveur and rock’n’roll restaurant PR great. Alan Crompton-Batt was the public relations consultant credited with creating the notion of the celebrity chef. He also used to manage …
We need little excuse in the Londonist Dungeon to indulge our taste for luxury foodstuffs. We’ve used the word “crikey” four times this week! Crack open the caviar! We’ve found a picture of a puppy asleep on a traffic cone! Let’s have some foie gras! …
It’s difficult to say where we stand on gastrobpubs. For a start, the issue is not really important enough for us to give it much thought. But on the other hand we do like our food (and drink). But on the other hand aren’t restaurants …
The Golden Dragon on Gerrard Street. We’ve been there ourselves. A couple of times, in fact. Nothing flash, but decent food for a good price. Or so we thought. Seems they’ve had a bit of a hygiene problem. City of Westminster magistrates heard mouse droppings …
Religionists are a funny old lot: Thousands of people flocked to temples across India on Monday following reports that idols of Hindu gods were drinking milk given by devotees as sacred offerings, witnesses said. Teenagers, adults and the aged stood in long lines with garlands …
We’re proud to say that we’re wine snobs here at Londonist HQ. Friday afternoon and you’ll often find us out on the terrace sipping a pint or two of the red stuff. The trick is to pick the wine with the best label. We find …
The London Assembly is pondering what’s going on with London’s allotments. The Environment Committee is apparently going to look into whether allotments are disappearing to make way for things such as the Olympic Village in Stratford. With luck, they might even suggest what to do …
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