Members clubs with good dining rooms have made an incredible resurgence in the past few years, opening to the public at lunchtime for the exposure (and the extra revenue), most notably Monty’s on Sloane.......
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Cuisine:
Modern British
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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Take a two hour holiday in Aix en Provence. It’s strange sometimes the things that can make you feel you are in a foreign country. Immediately after being seated at Aix en Provence, a French couple at a nearby table was engaged in a very serious wine service discussion...
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Cuisine:
French
Area:
Bayswater, Notting Hill
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Curious, isn’t it, how – and why – people come up with names for restaurants. There are address names (190 Queensgate), descriptive names (Parisienne Chop House), all of which are crystal clear. But then there are the puzzlers and Amber....
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Cuisine:
Spanish
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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It was like stepping on to a set from Sex in the City. Honest. There were all these tables of fours with 30-something women womanfully drinking down their red wine with their fishcakes...
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Cuisine:
Modern European
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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Bam-Bou is an atmospheric French-Vietnamese restaurant in the heart of the Charlotte Street café strip where Indo-Chinese wall hangings and ambient music create an evocative environment.
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Cuisine:
French/Vietnamese
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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This atmospheric French-Vietnamese restaurant in the heart of the Charlotte Street café strip will charm you from the moment you walk into its dimly lit entrance...
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Cuisine:
French/Vietnamese
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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Bertorelli's has managed to acquire a decent reputations for Italian-inspired food and unmistakeably French-style service. But now that Bertorelli's has effectively become a chain restaurant by opening a third venture in Frith Street, many foodies have become suspicious.
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Cuisine:
Italian
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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Tucked away behind Bank station is the stylish Threadneedles Hotel. Unsurprisingly, City types have already set up home in the bar but at the time of our visit, few had moved on to the elegant restaurant...
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Cuisine:
International
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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I went to La Rascasse feeling cynical. The prospect of “three venues under one roof, based on the Café Grand Prix, Monaco, the only bar and restaurant in the world situated inside a Formula One circuit didn’t thrill me. But I was forced to eat my words....
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Cuisine:
Modern British
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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Tucked away in a cobbled street off Berkeley Square, Caviar Kaspia feels like a well kept secret
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Cuisine:
Modern European
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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On the prowl for something sexy and Italian. If a puma were magically transmogrified into a restaurant, it would probably look a lot like the newly redesigned Cecconi’s. Dark, sleek, with an insinuation of danger, this old standby...
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Cuisine:
Italian
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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For all its shortcomings, Cheers has never pretended to be anything more than a cheap and cheerful refuelling point...
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Cuisine:
American
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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A couple of years ago, Cheers got a tongue-lashing from a couple of well-known publications. At the time it seemed harsh
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Cuisine:
American
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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Don’t steal the furniture! Indian restaurants across London may be shedding traces of Indian-ness, but...
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Cuisine:
Indian
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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Forget your Vindaloos and Madrases, the award-winning Chor Bizarre only deals in real Indian food. The name itself is a play on the phrase Chor Bazaar, or Thieves' bazaar and the interior certainly lives up to that hint of exoticism. No effort has been spared on the decor, ensuring that the Chor Bizarre experience is....
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Cuisine:
Indian
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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According to the early publicity blurb, a chowki is the raised platform where Indian families traditionally eat. It’s now also the name of Kuldeep “Mela” Singh’s latest venture: homestyle Indian food in the sort of high turnover volume setting made popular by........
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Cuisine:
Indian
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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Named after the raised platform where Indian families traditionally eat, Chowki is Kuldeep “Mela” Singh’s answer to the cheap, fast, volume formula of Wagamama et al.
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Cuisine:
Indian
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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There’s a slightly faded grandeur to the façade of Christopher’s that belies the efficiency that goes on behind the door. However, that run down charm, the eclectic menu and slightly informal atmosphere makes this place very easy to like.
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Cuisine:
American
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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It’s just as well the misleadingly named Country Life was still closed for refurbishment during the recent Countryside Alliance protest, as who knows what mayhem might have followed if...
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Cuisine:
Vegetarian
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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From small humble beginnings on Hammersmith Broadway to the heady streets of Soho, this second branch of the casual eaterie
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Cuisine:
French
Area:
West End & Mayfair
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