New Restaurant Review: The Gate, Islington
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Review: Comptoir Libanais on Wigmore Street
Photograph courtesy of Comptoir Libanais We didn’t know quite what to expect when we visited Comptoir Libanais on Sunday to sample its “home-style” Lebanese menu. We assumed it was going to be a dark and heavily curtained joint designed to evoke the feeling of sitting …
Witanhurst to “become London’s first £150m home”.
If you’re a first-time buyer looking to get onto the property ladder, you may be interested to know that Witanhurst, the 94 year old Georgian-style Highgate mansion, and second largest private residence in London (the largest being the Queen’s gaff), has been sold to Marcus …
Foodie Tours of London
With weather like this, there’s nothing like a little bit of a walk, followed by a little bit of food, followed by a little bit of a walk, followed by some more food, followed by–well, you get the point. So the amazing sunshine has Londonist …
Premiership: A Giant Leap Through A Closing Door
Sixty seconds on BBC Radio Five Live yesterday lunchtime beautifully encapsulated what English football is currently going through. The first forty-five seconds consisted of pained hand-wringing about foreign ownership, fans becoming increasingly helpless in the face of billionaire consortia and the increasingly predictable pecking order …
Culture Crawl
The super-stacked summer season of stuff to see and do is over… and the even more packed autumn schedule of stuff to see and do has launched without pause for breath. There’s no time to stop and stare in London – and why would you …
Spit or Swallow?
Turquoise, Red Lion Street WC1X Considering the number of restaurants on Red Lion Street, it’s surprising that this Holborn backwater isn’t more famous for dining. In the 19th Century, the area welcomed a sizeable Italian population, and was commonly known as ‘Little Italy’. Today, that …
What To Order… In A Turkish Restaurant
Turkish food is sometimes limited in a Londoner’s gastronomic experience to a post-pub greasy kebab that resurfaces the next day as a bad multicoloured burp. This is wrong. This is very, very bad and wrong. The Turkish (sometimes also known as Anatolian or Ottoman) cuisine …
Good Cop / Bad Cop / Electrocop
London police are in the news this morning in a couple of stories that highlight the best bobbies, but also a couple of (alleged) racist rozzers. First the good guys: Later today three police officers will be commended for their bravery after tackling a gunman. …
