We paid another visit to Truc Vert last night. It was as good as it’s always been….
Filed under: Best of..., British, French, International, Restaurants - Lardbutty | Tagged: 4 / 5, 4/5, 42 North Audley Street, Bond Street, Lardbutty, London, Mayfair, North Audley Street, Oxford Street, Truc Vert, W1K, W1K 6ZR | Leave a Comment »
A former Head Chef of Bombay Bicycle Club Balham in the nineties, Krishna Shah – who has a reputation for creating fine quality and diverse Nepalese and Indian cuisine – opened The Gurkha’s Diner in Balham in 2003. Lardbutty gives it 4.5 out of 5 and says it’s “excitingly different”…
Filed under: Indian, Restaurants - Lardbutty | Tagged: 1 The Boulevard, 4.5 / 5, 4.5/5, Balham, Balham High Road, chuli, Gurkha beer, Gurkhas diner, Indian, Katmandu beer, Krishna Shah, Lardbutty, Lardbutty restaurant index, Lardbutty reviews, London, momoch, Nepalese, South London, SW17, SW17 7BW, The Gurkha's Diner | Leave a Comment »
You’ll be hard-pushed to find a finer burger than the hamburger specials at the Draft House. Everything about this place has ‘thoughtful’ and ‘care’ stamped on it. Even the bar staff are passionate and knowledgeable about the range of drinks they sell…
Filed under: Best of..., British, Pub | Tagged: 4 / 5, 4/5, Battersea, Battersea Bridge Road, Battersea Park, Draft House, gastropub, Lardbutty restaurant index, London, pub, SW11, SW11 3AG, The Draft House, The Draft House Westbridge | 1 Comment »
Cây Tre, a Vietnamese café on Dean Street, Soho, is a weird and wonderful experience. The decor is somewhat reminiscent of a classy eel and pie shop with its white tiled walls and fairly basic chairs and tables..
Filed under: Restaurants - Lardbutty, Vietnamese | Tagged: 3 / 5, 3/5, Cây Tre, Cây Tre Soho, Dean Street, German Purity Law, Lardbutty, Leicester Square, London, Oxford Circus, Reinheitsgebot, Soho, St Mungo, Vietnamese, W1, W1D, W1D 4QD, West brewery | Leave a Comment »
Enak Enak gets a Lardbutty top score, **five out of five**, due to amazing food and great hospitality….(and Lardbutty doesn’t like giving top scores, being of the philosophy that there’s always room for improvement). Find out why…
Filed under: Best of..., Celebrity chefs, Indonesian, Restaurants - Lardbutty | Tagged: 5 / 5, 5/5, Enak Enak, far eastern cuisine, Indonesian, Indonesian cuisine, Lardbutty, Lavender Hill, London, Nancy Lam, Nancy Lam's Enak Enak, SW11, SW11 5RQ | 3 Comments »
The market table at the Cookbook Cafe is the kind of table I’d love to have in my own kitchen. A huge, solid wood table laden with the most tempting variety of foods: seasonal salads, antipasti, soup, cheeses, fresh bread and fish and seafood. This is an ‘unlimited buffet’ with a difference…
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At Trafalgar Square this lunchtime, 5000 portions of veggie curry were being given out, free. All made from ingredients that would otherwise have been wasted: surplus food saved from going to food mountains or vegetables rejected due to being the ‘wrong’ shape…
Filed under: Environment, Food + drink, Restaurants - Lardbutty, World | Tagged: compost, FareShare, Feeding the 5000, food mountains, FoodCycle, free lunch, Lardbutty, London, Love Food Hate Waste, Oliver Rowe, recycle, recycling, Trafalgar Square, wonky vegetables | Leave a Comment »
