Photograph courtesy of Moti Mahal We like Moti Mahal. A lot! Beyond the fact that this upscale modern restaurant serves some of the best South Asian and Indian food we’ve tried in Central London, Moti Mahal has repeatedly wowed us with innovative tasting menus (apple …
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 …
A couple of weeks ago, Londonist got the chance to sit down with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver at the Debenhams launch of his new range of cookware. We were impressed by his easygoing and gracious manner, his evident enthusiasm about all things culinary and his …
Kanteen, the chic little eatery at K West Hotel and Spa near Shepherd’s Bush Station, has recently introduced a new “Saints and Sinners” menu, with head chef Sylvan Chevereau taking a two-sided approach to “modern British dishes”, Born in Mauritius, Chevereau uses his culinary experience …
Opening today at Idea Generation Gallery is Monsters Inked: Inside the Minds of the Gods of Monsters, featuring buckets full of fun-omenal works by Pete Fowler (wow!), Rob Steen (illustrator of Ricky Gervais’s Flanimals) and Central Illustration Agency artists Andrew Bannecker, Dave Needham, Mick Brownfield, …
Not content simply to let the masses eat their cake (not to mention their walnut brownie chunk cookies), “US style cake emporium” Outsider Tart is now gonna help Londoners learn how to bake their own with the launch of its “Bakers Dozen” masterclass. These classes …
Photography by Chris Osburn. When, Jennifer Klinec, founder-instructor of “new-school” cookery classes – Eat Drink Talk – asked Londonist to lunch recently, we thought “how can we refuse?” And when she mentioned she would be making pizza with radicchio, escarole and bagna cauda (keep reading …
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Londonist happily attended Tipped’s Chilli Cook-Off at the Mucky Pup on Saturday, where in addition to sampling a range of mostly excellent chillies (there were eight in the competition; Londonist loved all but two of them), we (as in food and …
A not-so-subtle hint in our recent post about The Good Food Guide publishing a London edition 40 years after putting out their last London guide led to an actual hardcopy of the book appearing at Londonist Central HQ a few days later. Appreciative of such …
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