Brunch has never been so big, but because of this the hungover rabble, mums and toddlers come in flocks, queuing for miles to get their hands on what this trendy meal time has to offer. The most unimaginative you will find snaking out of the doors of The Breakfast Club, in their slutty ripped jeans, uniform Nikes, always gagging for instagrammable avo’s.
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Most of the time its the voiced pauses that mean more than the sentence itself; its the 'oo's' and the 'ahhs' that give us a visceral and instinctual feelings about the subject matter in hand. One venue that has been making us 'ooo' and 'ahh' and definitely 'mm' is The Balcon in Pall Mall.
Read more →You’re all familiar with the wallet-gouging, tourist-fleecing disgrace that is afternoon tea in a number of London’s more storied hotels and department stores. Fifty quid a head for indigestion and seventy for heartburn, if you decide to throw in a sad, room temperature flute of own-brand Champagne. It’s not traditional, it’s a shameless clip joint routine, all white-gloves, golf club etiquette (blazers, anyone?) and meanness. Here at the Punch Room, we really feel that it should be allowed to fade into the twilight, along with the last episode of Downton Abbey. There’s no point complaining a...
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Read more →Le Bab - not a middle-class term of endearment - is a brand new restaurant in Soho's Kingly Court. Perched up high on the 2nd floor, Le Bab are sure fire set to revolutionise and change London's opinion of kebabs. The thought-leaders and cooking demons from Le Bab's team were previously at Le Gavroche and have said they are 'reinvigorating kebabs with provenance, seasonality and technique'. With none of that end-of-the-night kebab shop swagger, we entered the slick, setting. It was modern and very relaxed and housed a lively mixture of daters and pals alike. The succinct menu of...
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Read more →Jidori is a new Japanese yakitori restaurant launching in Dalston on 1st December 2015, founded by Brett Redman (who recently opened The Richmond in Hackney to great acclaim) and Natalie Lee-Joe. At hundreds of yakitori joints across Tokyo – especially down the notorious Memory Lane in Shinjuku – chicken skewers are traditionally grilled over open coals, and Jidori brings the hugely popular Japanese street food from Tokyo to east London for the first time.
Read more →Mono sensory experiences are over, everyone wants taste to run with smell and for sight to set the tone. London's latest multi-sensory extravagance has been created by aqua kyoto’s celebrated head chef Paul Greening who has come up with the beautiful ‘Food as Art’ menu which draws inspiration from three contemporary Japanese artists. Our pal Paul has taken his signature style of highly detailed, intriguing and beautiful creations one step further with a selection of dishes inspired by contemporary artist, Yayoi Kusama’s distinctive polka dots. He has also been inspire by...
Read more →Conveniently located directly opposite the O2 arena, Craft London have created a menu to celebrate the ATP World Tour Finals.
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