Restaurant Reviews – Dine Online

Meatballs at The Quality Chop House
92-94 Farringdon Road
London. EC1R 3EA
T: 020 3490 6228
Helen Forrest Reviews….
This week I took the Veggie along for a meal at Exmouth Market based Meatballs (yes I know, but somebody had to try the vegetarian option, and with eight delicious sounding meatballs on offer it wasn’t going to be me!).
Although this [...]

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Christmas at Carluccio’s
By Helen Forrest…
So somehow we find ourselves in October, with Christmas two months away we are hurtling towards 2012. Time truly does wait for no-one, and if like me, you always leave your Christmas planning to the last minute you will pleased to know that Carluccio’s – that byword for authentic and affordable [...]

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Grand Imperial London
101 Buckingham Palace Road
London
SW1W 0SJ
T: 020 7821 8898
E: reservations@grandimperiallondon.com
The Grand Imperial located within The Grosvenor Hotel near London’s bustling Victoria station is the newest addition to Chef and Restaurateur Rand Cheung’s empire.
The restaurant has been designed by a Feng-Shui master and is luxurious and comfortable with a private dining room separated by gold [...]

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A Grelha – alfresco dining and drinking at The Gun, Docklands, London
Helen Forrest reports…
The Gun | A Grelha
27 Coldharbour
Docklands
London
E14 9NS
T: 020 7515 5222
A Grelha is the alfresco dining and drinking arm of The Gun; a lovely, beautifully decorated establishment near Blackwell DLR. Although the pub isn’t in the most convenient of areas (being a good [...]

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Tortilla Restaurant Review, 6 Market Place, London W1
Tortilla
6 Market Place
W1W 9ah
This affordable chain of mexican ‘casual restaurants’ (think fast food for the more discerning palate), now boasts four locations across the centre of London: Islington, Southwark, Canary Wharf and Oxford Circus. Established to tap into an obvious gap in the market ,Tortilla aims to provide [...]

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Akiiki is Angel’s first cafe/gallery space
Reviewed by Helen Forrest
Akiiki
364 Goswell Road
Angel
London

Akiiki (meaning ‘friend’)is Angel’s first cafe/gallery space and it’s more than a project for the owners;it’s a passion. Taking what was previously a more run-of-the-mill healthy eatery, the longtime friends and more recent business partners, have moulded something rather more special.
The simple [...]

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the e-bar, Little Venice, London
the e-bar
2 Warrington Crescent, Little Venice, London W9 1ER
+44 (0)20 7432 8455
Reviewed by Helen Forrest
Situated in London’s Little Venice, the recently revamped e-bar presents an attractive drinking and dining location for the coming summer. New manager, Lourenzo Mello Cabral has brought about a welcome sea change: recruiting ex-Haymarket chef Yadav Vijay [...]

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Imli Restaurant, Wardour Street, London
Helen Forrest Reviews…
167-169 Wardour Street,
London W1F 8WR.
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7287 4243
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7287 4245
Web: http://www.imli.co.uk

One cannot help but feel a sense of expectation upon entering Imli; after all it has a lot to live up to: Tamarind, the award-winning parent to this hip Soho child is in [...]

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Tortilla, Mexican eatery based in Islington and now Southwark
Review By Helen Forrest
Tortilla
13 Islington High Street
London
N1 9LQ
Tortilla, the Mexican eatery based in Islington and now Southwark, first opened in 2007. Following in the footsteps of Itsu and Masala Zone in its approach to repackaging authentic cuisines in a simple ‘fast food’ format, Tortilla’s founder Brandon Stephens [...]

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North Pole Piano Restaurant – Reviewed By Helen Forrest
Date Of Visit: 6th February 2009
As a pre-Birthday celebration for our Lewisham friends, whose birthday’s both fall in the same week, I booked the stylish sounding, North Pole Piano Restaurant through TopTable. They were offering a much welcome 50% off from the a la carte menu (when [...]

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