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What’s for Lunch? Opera Tavern, Covent Garden

Phenomenal and atypical tapas in an elegant setting.

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A Northwest Passage to Upscale Comfort Food @ The Hill, Belsize Park

Comfort food done bigger, bolder and a lot more fancifully at this Belsize Park brasserie.

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New Restaurant & Bar Review: Carom

It’s carom, carom and more carom at this new Soho venue…

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New Cocktail Bar Review: Shaker & Co, Hampstead Road

Can masterfully mixed cocktails in a New Orleans style setting bring punters to another bland patch of Hampstead Road?

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New Restaurant Review: The Drift, Heron Tower

Hit and miss dining at the base of the city’s tallest building.

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TONIGHT: Big Chill House Relaunch Party

Check out the anglepoise lamps and festival inspired art tonight from 7pm.

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Review: Weekend Menu @ Boundary

Down the concrete stairwell to a Bond villain’s lair… or, actually a French restaurant.

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Bar Preview: Mason And Taylor

Balls Pond Road stalwart and CAMRA favourite The Duke of Wellington is set to send a cultural envoy to Bethnal Green Road, opening Mason and Taylor early next month at the top of Brick Lane.

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Bar Review: The Nightjar

The Battle of the Bar Birds currently raging in Shoreditch involves less hair pulling and stiletto slinging than you might first expect. The birds, for one, are of the feathered variety rather than potty-mouthed fishwives, with Rivington Street’s Carroll-inspired Jubjub wrangling in the pecking order …

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New Restaurant Review: Brasa

The word brasa means ‘live coal’ and is a tantalising reference to the restaurant’s charcoal grill on which much of the food is cooked. Much like an M&S advert, though, this grill isn’t just any grill, it’s an authentic Asador grill brought from the Basque …

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The Folly Opens Near Monument

Photography by Chris Osburn The folly for us was showing up on the late side of the launch of this new, city slick bar and restaurant. The place was heaving and the bar staff seemed slightly overwhelmed (but it must be said there were free …