Bangkok: If you’re looking for a perfect start to an evening on the town in Bangkok‘s famous Surawong business and entertainment district, you can pick no better-starting point than this outstanding restaurant. With delicious smokey BBQ favourites and a great line-up of cocktails and brews to whet your whistle and your appetite. It’s a fun…
Restaurant Review: Jeru, Mayfair, London
Jeru restaurant in London’s Mayfair offers a new twist on Middle Eastern cuisine. 3 I was brought up in a house where aromas of middle eastern cuisine would waft out from the kitchen almost daily. Food would encapsulate the exotic, sometimes spicy, sometimes sweet but always a flavoursome experience. I remember wishing my mother would…
Bar & Restaurant Review: Lucy Wong, Rathbone Place, London
Lucy Wong brings back a decadent timeless glamour, with décor inspired by Chinese design, signature cocktails and Cantonese food. 10 Rathbone Place is sandwiched between Fitzrovia and Soho and has always been one of those in-between places with no real identity. That seems to be changing with the opening of a number of new restaurants,…
Restaurant Review: Penelope’s, Russel Street, London
Penelope’s restaurant offers a fusion of Spanish and Israeli cuisine in London’s Covent Garden. Barely three months old and Ariel Schiff’s Penelope’s restaurant (named after his daughter) is already on the gastronomic hot list. Penelope’s is attached to the newly opened stylish Amano hotel, nevertheless, the restaurant is likely to become a destination in its…
Restaurant Review: Pulia, Borough Market, London
Pulia restaurant in London delivers an authentic taste of Southern Italy in relaxed surroundings. Pulia restaurant in London’s iconic Borough Market was founded in 2012, with the mission of bringing Apulian culinary traditions to the world. This is one of two restaurants, the other in Brindisi, and they also sell products from Puglia including olive…
Tozi Grand Cafe, Battersea, London
Tozi Grand Cafe is attached to the Art’otel in trendy Battersea. It fits right in. Not having visited Battersea for many years, I was taken aback by how well the area has been renovated. It has gone from dowdy to a dazzlingly artsy complex of shops and restaurants with installations that shine brightly after dark.…
Where you eat in a tree whose fruit is fish
Every country has a must-experience restaurant whose food and overall operation are so unique that it is almost impossible to reproduce. Take, for instance, the Ithaa Undersea Restaurant in the Maldives, set more than 16 feet below sea level. The first of its kind, it opened in 2005 and is encased in a transparent acrylic…
Restaurant Review: Lusin Mayfair, London
London gets its first Armenian restaurant, Lusin, in Hay Hill, Mayfair. A brand new Armenian restaurant, Lusin, has opened in the heart of London’s Mayfair bringing unique dishes and flavours to tempt the palate. Lusin (which means moon in Armenian, a symbol in the Armenian culture) was first launched in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2011,…
The best seafood restaurants in Plymouth, Devon
Plymouth is a major fishing port, ranked 5th in the UK with almost 6% of the total catch, and has an annual Seafood and Harbour Festival. Rupert Parker takes the bait. The last time I was in Plymouth was over thirty years ago, and I quietly dismissed it as a navy town with botched post-war…
Rib Room Restaurant and Bar, Bangkok, Thailand
The Rib Room Restaurant and Bar in Bangkok is located on 31st floor of the Landmark hotel – a dining hot spot in the city with traditional cuisine and eye-candy views. Located on the 31st floor of the Landmark Hotel is the Michelin-acknowledged Rib Room and Bar restaurant (aka RR & B) whose traditional style…