Review – Kitchen Table
8/10, Fatthomas, ReviewWe lost a good man's youth on Saturday. Having to face his fifth decade my friend Tom did the only decent thing a self-respecting Londoner can do - book an entire Michelin Star Restaurant...
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Fino – A Love Story
10/10, Fatthomas, ReviewAfter a prolonged spell of introspection on how to approach an overdue column on my favorite restaurants my pondering came to a somewhat surprising and poignant conclusion. My affair with eating throughout my electoral...
Review – Chiltern Firehouse
5.5/10, FatthomasWhen I brag to my friends back home about London's superior food scene I mostly refer to the fact that eating in the capital is better, smarter and more liberal than in any other...
Tarragon and Mustard Chicken
Fatthomas, RecipeWeekday cooking can be a drag, especially if you have a demanding job. The likes of Nigel Slater have always been helpful in finding honest and quick alternatives to your local take-away. This favorite...
Meatball Pasta
Fatthomas, RecipeWhen we got our first freezer my Mum began buying immense amounts of minced beef and frozen fish. It was the 80's so who can blame her. I fondly remember her Knorr Bolognese with...
Review – Lyle’s
8/10, Fatthomas, ReviewAt first sight Lyle's in Shoreditch actually looks and feels like the kind of restaurant that I don't like. A loud and overly bright open-plan, brick walled hall bearing comparison to a train station....
Tuna Sliders
Fatthomas, RecipeLiving near Holloway Road can be a bit daunting. Technically you are in a prime location, Islington on your Council Tax Bill (ouch), less than twenty minutes from Soho with beautiful Hampstead Heath to...
Review – The Red Lion & Sun
8.5/10, Fatthomas, ReviewI'm not sure how to put this without sounding erroneously negative, but The Red Lion & Sun should not exist. Not in Central London and not a forty-five minute walk from dreadful three-laned Euston...
Review – Bao
8.5/10, Fatthomas, ReviewBao is so goddamn cute. Everything is tiny! The mugs, teapots, plates and of course the steamed buns. Without their ceremonial gentleness the staff behind the counter might just break the intricate clayware and...
Review – Harwood Arms
6/10, Micro-Review, ReviewFor an ordinary Londoner the Michelin awarded Harwood Arms can be an odd experience. As somebody who is used to the colorful mix of people in the capital I was slightly bewildered by the...
Review – Blacklock
7.5/10, Micro-Review, ReviewYou are forgiven for your recent social media befuddlement about random photographs of 19th century irons atop various meat chops. I felt the same.
From Blacklock's Instagram Account
Surely the iron itself is a gimmick...
Review – Lima Floral
7.5/10, Micro-Review, ReviewOne day I have to go to Central in Peru and eat Virgilio Martinez' dishes right where they were first created. The London outposts of Lima and Lima Floral are offering remakes of the...
Review – The Manor
9/10, ReviewOh my! The Manor is phenomenal. Not since my first visit to the Fat Duck or Barrafina have I had a meal so joyous and life affirming. And of all places, it is in...
Review – Señor Ceviche
8/10, ReviewWho doesn't hate Carnaby Street? Answer: Out-of-Towners, and I am not talking about the awful movie with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn.
The absurdity of London's century old infrastructure coping with 10 million tube and...
Fat Burgers
Fatthomas, RecipeYou need to eat a lot of burgers to know what a good burger is. A great quote for my gravestone, if I decide to have one. I am not planning on making a...
Review – Kitty Fisher’s
8/10, ReviewKitty Fisher's pervades with fading memories of a foregone era. Not only simply in name it shares its identity with the prominent 18th century British courtesan, an audacious It Girl and temporary companion of...
Review – Cay Tre
7/10, Micro-Review, ReviewIt was a quirky Australian girlfriend that introduced me to Vietnamese food during my intermission in Melbourne. Good old Germany in the 90's was a bit of a culinary wasteland and having grown up...
Review – Bone Daddies
8/10, Micro-Review, ReviewThe only time in the last decade I entered the dreadful premises of a Starbucks in London was on a sunny and very hungover Tuesday morning. On my way there I had to emergency...
Review – Duke’s Brew & Que
7.5/10, Micro-Review, ReviewAnother greasy finger joint and probably not worth an exhaustive review - not at least because of its similarity to so many other great London BBQ venues. But without a doubt some of the...
Pulled Pork and Truffled Gruyere Sandwich
Fatthomas, RecipeIt is an understatement that last summer the Widdenham Toad hosted at times rather hedonistic food get-togethers. Mark and I attempted many debaucherous dishes and I shall provide some of the highlights over the...
Review – The Bread & Bean
6.5/10, Micro-Review, ReviewBefore Junction Road's much-needed gentrification began around 2010 the entire upper half of the high street was littered with equally horrendous £3.50 fry-up joints and kebab shops of the lowest grade. The opening of...
Review – Bad Egg
7/10, ReviewAs a Clarence Court Egg lover and regular Smokehouse customer I have been looking forward to the opening of Neil Rankin's new eatery in Moorgate. I was unsure what to expect of the new eggy...
Review – Smoking Goat
7/10, ReviewUntil this afternoon when I randomly strolled down Denmark Street I had no idea that Smoking Goat is now open during daytime, and evidently neither did anybody else - I ended up being the...
Review – Burger & Lobster
8/10, Micro-Review, ReviewAfter my recent journey through the London Lobster Shacks, Kitchens and Sheds I came to a rather obvious conclusion: Burger & Lobster is still better than everything else. By a stretch.
The one and...
Review – Caravan Kings Cross
7/10, Micro-Review, ReviewThe Kings Cross branch of Caravan has been a loyal staple in my list of go-to restaurants in London for quite some time now. A short walk from my flat (the famous Widdenham Toad!)...
Review – Blanchette
9/10, ReviewWhen writing negative reviews I often question my subjectivity - am I just grumpy? Was I just unlucky? Will my tiny, unimportant blog have a negative impact beyond its humble intentions? Am I just...
Review – London Lobster
2/10, 6/10, Multi-Review, ReviewOn the top floor, somewhere in an impressive glass tower a few select grey men and women debate around a round table. While breathing the finest rarified air they juggle big topics such as...
“A one way road to Yummyville”
FatthomasWhat can be more mouth watering than Joe reading juicy burger descriptions for the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board? http://www.cheeseandburger.com/
The Cheese and Burger...
Review – Spuntino
8/10, ReviewI have never left Spuntino not drunk. This is a fact of life just like creepy pimps on Rupert Street or drinking pints in the freezing cold in Soho. And I like it.
Another fact...
Review – Heddon Street Kitchen
7/10, ReviewI sensed a slight amount of reluctance ahead of my visit to Heddon Street Kitchen. My only previous visit to a Gordon Ramsey Restaurant was Maze many years ago - 2009, still with Atherton...
Review – Tincan
7/10, ReviewAfter shamefully skipping the gym today and going for a leisurely stroll through lunchtime Soho I found myself passing Tincan's window display on Upper James St. I had read about this place before and...
Lobster Rolls
RecipeAfter London's first "Lobster Revolution" in 2011/2012 we are now firmly entering a second wave of hedonistic shellfish eateries popping up all over town. Take-away dive-kitchens like Smack Lobster, Lobster Shack and Lobster Kitchen...
Review – Crocker’s Folly
6/10, ReviewArek Bober - formerly from Pollen Street Social - is heading this impressively renovated gastropub in a quiet St. John's Wood residential street. Although originally a 19th century hotel and until recently a family...
Review – Dirty Burger
9/10, ReviewRight behind Pizza East in Kentish Town in a dimly lit car park is a shed called Dirty Burger.
The Dirty Burger Shed
Controversial statement: Dirty Burger is the best Burger in London at the...
Review – Pond Dalston
8/10, ReviewAloha!
Before going to newly opened Pond I never had Hawaiian food before, I think. It speaks of London's amazing food culture that instead of trying this somewhere in the Pacific I ended up having...
Review: Mission Wine Bar and Kitchen
3/10, ReviewSager & Wilde's second wine bar in Shoreditch opened recently with a focus on new Californian grapes. I was quite excited ahead of this but bitterly disappointed with the experience despite the very interesting...
Coq au Vin
RecipeThe old classic, Julia Child style.
Boiling the bacon first is a really worthwhile thing to do - it purifies the bacon flavour without making the end result too salty. No smoked bacon!
A good choice...