We FINALLY went (stumbled across it by accident on a shopping trip to be honest, but we had been itching to go for ages). We waited (not too long for a Saturday afternoon sitting, around 20 minutes) and we fell totally in love with Kiln, an open plan Thai-inspired restaurant using wood-burning ovens and grills …
Flavour Bastard restaurant, we went because the name made us giggle and the critic reviews were so scathing that it could only be better than expected. It was and we’d definitely go back, not just for its name sake!
Bala Baya – it’s a bit of a limerick to say quickly, but Elldrew have been saying it a lot since we went there a week ago. It rocked. Not just because it’s under train arches, nor because of the flying camel logo, but because it’s one of the best restaurants we’ve been too recently …
We have been big fans of Temper restaurant since they opened their doors in Soho. A BBQ restaurant with a South American influence serving up amazing dishes; it’s all about meat and boy do they know how to cook it! We were naturally very excited to hear they had opened a second branch in the …
In wild contradiction to our recent bargain pasta dinner, that same week we also had the pleasure of dining at Oblix, one of several restaurants in London’s Shard – polar opposites to L’Artigiano. The whole experience of dining in The Shard is special; it’s a meal for a special occasion with a price tag reserved …
Spontaneous dining; not something Elldrew do often; mostly because our choice of restaurants require planning and booking well in advance, however every so often, when the moons align, spontaneity can be a good thing. This was apparent on a recent outing to trendy Clerkenwell to watch a friend’s live gig. Without a booking, specific craving …
Quite often we tend to get wrapped up in the hype of trendy or new restaurant openings that we forget there are plenty of well-established venues serving up delicious cuisine, that also need recognition. It may have taken Elldrew 20 odd years to finally book a table at Pan Asian restaurant Banana Tree, but after …
They say you can never have too much of a good thing, so on a second visit in as many years to the lovely Hotel Can Faustino located in the old Ciutadella on the Spanish island of Menorca, we couldn’t wait to return to eat at some of our previous favourite restaurants, as well as …
Aside from its party island reputation Ibiza also has its fair share of gastronomic experiences. So, on a recent short break, Elldrew eschewed the nightclubs in favour of a more sophisticated food focused holiday.
Early in 2017, after years in hibernation, the old Midland Bank headquarters in the City re-emerged butterfly-like and transformed into London’s hottest new destination hotel, The Ned, run by the uber-chic and contemporary Soho House & Co. For a group notoriously strict about the type of people they admit into their “exclusive” creative industry only members’ …