My favorite Places and Recommendations
My favorite Places and Recommendations |
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| RESTAURANTS: | English Cuisine | ||
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This is my favorite restaurant at the moment:, from far! this organic restaurant deserves a lot of attention, their organic food is very varied and nutritionally very balanced, they also work out the ying and yang of foods and dishes. They serve a wide range of dishes as a buffet, from £4 to £7 depending on how big a plate you take, they also do a la carte, amazing seed milk and strange drinks, and desserts which most are raw or very slowly cooked to retain nutrients. It s a no fuss place, but the atmosphere is so relazed, and balanced, cristals and salt lamps are the main decoration, as well as plants and colour. This is a MUST place, just in front ot the Intrepid Fox. | ||
| HIGHBURY ISLINGTON 151 Upper St London N1 1R8 TEL: 0207 354 2605 |
A wonderful continental restaurant which cooks with interesting food combinings but it s delicious. The service is excellent and it is a NON SMOKING RESTAURANT!!! What a relief! How lovely . They opened end 2005, but are very promissing. | ||
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SOHO |
This is a great restaurant:: a tiny place, always crowded . On its menu
the first time I went there, they had -oh my god?- seagulls eggs as a starter!
They also served Samphire, a not so common seaweed-rock plant which I hadn't
eaten anywhere before, delicious, and for dessert (and I usually don't have
any because of sugar content) a mexican chocolate cake made by an old mexican
lady, especially for them, with no added sugar! And it was scrumptious. Unusual menu, great service, very good wines, brilliant mineral water. You just have to go there. |
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KILBURN 351 Kilburn High Road NW6 7QB TEL: 020 7328 2637 |
A restaurant which reminds me a bit of Andrew Edmunds, but in a more affordable
way. And not as posh. But it is delicious and really recommended before
going to a MAB gig! Very friendly service and atmosphere. They have a non smoking part well divided. |
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FARNHAM 112 West Street Farnham Surrey GU9 7HH Tel: 01252 722978 |
A very very good restaurant, a bit similar to Andrew Edmunds but more expensive, the kind of place where they don't rush you at all, (it is limit about eating on time to get anywhere...a bit slow!) but the food is really excellent, original and unusual, and the chef's foreword at the front of the menu puts the enphasis on this familly restaurant as being a whole, chefs being as important as owners or waitresses. Delicious, I definitly recommend it for a treat! | ||
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BATH 6 Green Street BATH BA1 2JY Tel: 01225 448 707 |
An excellent fish restaurant, which deserves a mention even though it is a chain and there are a few of them around. Very good service(how many staff work there??!) and very fresh fish that you can glace at before eating them. The tables are quite modern, a bit too canteen like really but it s the way they like it, and I like the food! So never mind the boring decor when food and service are excellent.There is one in Chiswick if you don't want to go all the way to Bath... | |
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SOHO 49 Lexington Street London W1F 9AP TEL: 0207 494 0514 |
A good restaurant in front of Andrew Edmunds, small menu, but very good quality food. Very pretty waitresses. Friendly atmostphere. Nice bread with olive oil. The only thing missing in that was the garlic! | |
NEWARK 25 Castlegate NG 24 1AZ TEL: 01636 61 06 61 |
A brillianht etape restaurant, great value, excellent service and food. Very friendly landlord. | ||
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REIGATE (Surrey) |
Very nice restaurant again serving unusual food (ostrich, Samphire!) very
good service, and great organic wines. Homemade white bread. The only thing I'd comment on in that restaurant is that it does not smell of food, but smells more like a clean bar.(no food smells..??) |
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| RESTAURANTS: | French cuisine | ||
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EARLS
COURT |
My favorite french restaurant, in London. It's quite upmarket,(expensivish)
very friendly, authentic, (not like some in Sloane Square, baaah, where
the waiters don't even iron their shirts and wear dodgey jeans) Lou Pescadou serves the best fish you'll find around. Brilliant service. A negative note: if you want sourkrout and tell them to phone you next time they do a weekly special sourkrout (once or twice a year), they may forget and you may never get to try their amazing sourkrout:-( I was quite desapointed they forgot. I may have to find another favorite French restaurant :-( |
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HARROW -ON-THE
HILL 40 High St London, HA1 3LL Tel: 0208 423 2598 |
This is not a French Restaurant, the owners being Italian and Spanish,
and the cuisine being from all over the place; the menu is full of grammar
mistakes ;-) it's cute!(they didn't seem to take notice of my comments regarding
the French spelling) The food is very good though, and the prices fair. Worth a try if you are around North-West London. |
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| RESTAURANTS: | Japanese Cuisine | ||
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NORTH EALING |
My first ever Japanese experience, with raw fish Sashimi, Miso soup
and Buckwheat noodles. Great service, before the meal you get a warm towel
to clean your hands, in case the dirty pig you are didn't wash his hands
before eating his starter. |
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SOHO Tel: 0207 629 2961 |
A restaurant who was recommended by Sean, who browsed my links and sent me an email about it!! The first person to do so! and I must thank him a lot :-) This restaurant is very good, the sashimi very nicely layed out and the rest of the meal very good too.Their menu is very extensive, and it s difficult to choose...Most customers seem to be japanese, and the only downside to it is that if you book a table at 8 and arrive more than 10 mins late, they put you at the queue, which is very long, and ask you to wait till the next table is free. Same applies if you arrive on time but the rest of your party isn't there. But that was on a week end, they may be more easy during the week. Definitly worth the wait! | |
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EALING COMMON Tel: 0208 896-3175 |
My second Japanese experience: They only serve raw fish! No cooked dishes,
except of course the miso soup and the rice which makes the sushi. Very
nice service, cheaper than Momo's, but the menu is very hard to understand.
A lovely restaurant but you will need to book, as it's very busy and is
only very small. No cleaning towel. By the way, no credit cards accepted, they only take good old cash! |
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TOOTING BEC 326 Balham High Road, London, SW17 7AA Tel: 0208 682 1777 |
An excellent restaurant recommended by the staff at Wimbledon Sewing Machine
ltd. Amazing starters, try the Raw tuna marinated in Citrus, or the Green Soja bean pods in Ginger (never seen soja bean pods before) or again the Cucumber and seaweed starter. Unfortunatly they do not serve Buckwheat noodle, the demand in Tooting for such excellent and healthy products not being very high. Shame. |
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EALING BROADWAY 13 Bond Street, London W5 5AP Tel: 020 8566 2010 |
My favorite japanese restaurant, the staff is really super friendly (and so is the fish chef) .They are very keen to fill up the mug of green tea all through the meal! Very good food, my favorite is some noodle-paste filled with prawn and vegetables served with a spicy sauce which name again ...I don't remember, (ah here it is, it is called "gyosa")but yet I have not been desapointed with them, and I don't expect to be! Try it! | |
| RESTAURANTS: | Indian Cuisine | ||
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SOUTHALL |
A very very good Indian restaurant hidden in the Indian quarters of Southall, near Ealing.They serve Bitter Gourd and lambs brain. Very good. Quite unusual and worth a try! | |
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SOUTHALL Tel: 0208 574 1897 |
Very close to Roshni, this restaurant is very posh: it actually looks , frighteningly, like a nouvelle cuisine restaurant. But when I saw the dishes coming I was very relieved :-) Brilliant food, can be very mild, and very good service. They do use a lot of cream though.You could try it and tell me what you think... | |
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NORTH EALING 10 Queens Parade, Queens Drive, North Ealing, London W5 3HU. Tel: 0208 997 0210 |
This is the best Indian restaurant I have eaten in. Convenient location,
very close to Art2b Studio; their "medium " hot curries are definitly
very mild comparing to Sri Lankan's standards where "mild" curries
are bearely eadible. I had a gorgeous chunk of lamb on the bone in curry sauce, and my friend had a very strange but delicious Lamb with bananas and lychees, which was not sugary but just sweetened by the fruit. Their nan bread was delicious, and the vegetables very fine, which is a change from standard Indian heavy cuisine. They were very welcoming, and even offered us a drink on the house at the end of the evening! it never happened before! I had my favorite, Mineral water, of course :-) (no internet links found for them yet) |
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HARROW ON THE HILL |
Great Indian restaurant in Harrow again, they do their own delicious and unusual popadum dips! I ate chunks of lamb with "Ajwain seeds" in it, it is the first time I find that spice in an Indian restaurant, I was very impressed. Very nice vegetables . They also offer potatoe crackers with the popadums. Lovely! Very big restaurant, a lot of seating capacity. Very good customer service. (I stole the napkin of the popadum basket as I was going to sneeze and the nice waiter saw it and brought me 3 more on a plate :-) ) | |
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TOOTING BEC 121 Upper Tooting Rd London SW17 7TJ TEL: 0208 767 7676 |
A really good Indian-Pakistan-blengladesh restaurant, where you can see the chef doing the dishes behind glass! They have 2 kitchens, and the one for the main dishes is in the main restaurant room, so you can admire the skills and spices the chef puts in its dishes. Pilaw rice is a mix of cumin, Ghee butter, and onions, and does not have the ugly red and green colourings of most restaurants. The lentils are "quite nice"(delicious) and the breads very nice too. Friendly service, open all day. | |
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ALDGATE EAST |
A real Pakistani restaurant, which I discovered the other day, near Aldgate. This authantic weird and amazing restaurant is not for the posh middle class: unless they like to get their fingers dirty. They have a very small menu, and the waiter will propose you a selection. Main courses costs maximum £6.50, bring your own wine. | |
| RESTAURANTS: | Sri Lankan Cuisine | ||
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SOUTHALL |
The first Sri Lankan Iever went to ! I love their spicy soup, it s a clear soup made out of spices(very good for health said the waiter) with a bit of clear tomato, and it is so hot it is hard to eat it, but it's delicious! They do brilliant hoppers (try the milk hopper, a rice pancake with coconut milk and a bit of sugar) The service is lovely, the waiters so friendly and warm, it's a shame the food is so hot, I'd go there more often! Very very hot. | |
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WEMBLEY 17 Ealing Road, London HA0 4AA Tel: 0208 900 8664 |
Another good Sri Lankan cuisine, very very good service, and he kept on
wanting to give us free things: a pudding, then a coffee...Good food, slightly
less hot than Palm Palace! But not much less, just like Sri Lankan cuisine
should be...;-) Worth a visit! (ladies go for it! nice waiter) Make sure you ask for your meat not too cooked, though. |
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| RESTAURANTS: | Lebanese Cuisine | ||
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BAYSWATER Tel: 0207 243 8444 |
Fine lebanese cuisine. If you want something healthy, with plenty of raw vegetables and you are near Centre London, come here. A complementary dish full of raw vege is served while you read your menu. Menu include classic middle eastern dishes, but also-oh my god- raw meat blended with spices and marinated as starters. I recommend this restaurant as much for vegetarians than meat eaters. The usually horrible 'Falafels' are actually very nice in this restaurant. Great quality. You can even ask for express service and food will be there in minutes. | |
| RESTAURANTS: | Turkish Cuisine | ||
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UXBRIDGE 33 Rockingham Road Middx UB8 2TZ Tel: 01895 25 22 48 |
We have been to this restaurant several times, and even though its location
isn't ideal (next to where the old Mirage Studio used to be, not the nicest
of places) the food is very good, and the service very attentive, fast and
they also have nice square plates. Try it! Very good looking too. |
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HACKNEY Tel: 0208 986 2223 |
This used to be my favorite eating place when I lived in Hackney, and now I do go back there occasionally when I fancy some nice fresh food, salad and vegetables.Great daily cooked dishes, brilliant cucumber-tomatoe-parsley salad. It is more like a cafe than a proper restaurant, but it is nice to go and eat there before going to the Klinker.(see Rock&roll links)No need to book. | |
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HARRINGAY-MANOR HOUSE Tel: 0208 348 9515 |
This is a very fiendly restaurant, in the Turkish style (daily cooked
dishes: usually 1 lamb, 1 chicken and 1 vegetarian) delicious food, and
homemade white bread! Try the lentil soup if you are peckish. |
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HARRINGAY-MANOR HOUSE 443 Green Lanes, London N4 1HA Tel: 0208 340 7801 |
Another very good restaurant in Green Lanes, which waitress is extremely nice and welcoming, (hope she doesn't leave before you get to try it) the food is amazing, didn't look that great in the window(lack of greenery) but the tastes and what they offer are outstanding. Unusual flavours, very good prices, and they will provide a salad if you ask (but it doesn't come straight away with the meal) Delicious. Careful the chillies. Even the green ones. | |
| RESTAURANTS: | Brazillian Cuisine | ||
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BAYSWATER 111 Westbourne Grove, London, W2 4UW Tel: 0207 792 4035 |
Brazillian BBQ Restaurant, Westbourne Grove. A great fixed price deal, get a plate, help yourself to vegetables and salad and then they bring around a selection of fresh BBQ meals until you surrender...Try the cassava powder blended with the sauce of your dishes, very unusual(well, not for Brazillians) and very nice! I recommend it for vegetarians too. Lots of vegetables dishes. |
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| RESTAURANTS: | Thai Cuisine | ||
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Stamford 43 St Mary's St Lincs PE9 2DS Tel: 01780 757291 |
A gorgeous restaurant lost in Lincs, in Stamford Town centre. Stamford is a very pretty town (full of geese) and this restaurant, ran by a very friendly owner, is a relaxing place to have lunch. The food is good, and the surroundings pleasant. Fast service. | |
| RESTAURANTS: | Italian Cuisine | ||
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BAYSWATER |
I am not keen on Italian restaurants, usually being just white pasta, white pizza, white bread, tomamto, just refined products leaving me totally...unhealthy. But this Italian restaurant off Westbourne Grove is actually very tasty, and very good quality for white pasta. They do good fish, good meat, and some vegetables! Wonderful. | |
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SOUTHEND Tel: 01702 341892 |
Another very good Italian restaurant, they specialise in Fish, as their name says. Amazing menu, great choices, and excellent garlic bread, even though it s made with white flour. | |
| RESTAURANTS: | Vegetarian-organic Cuisine | ||
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SOHO |
I had to mention this bar where i had an extremely friendly and nice service. They sell a lot of nice green fresh juices, food to take away, all vegetarian but they do serve brown rice. The place wasn't the most spotless place I have been to, at the end of their working day, but it is definitly worth going in there for a healthy and nice snack, anytime of day. (or maybe it was the residues of the market packing up in the street which gave that impression of mess) | |
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SOHO 45 Lexington St london W1F 9AN Tel: 0207 494 1634 |
This is a nice vegetarian restaurant in Centre London, where they serve
nice fresh juices with algae, strange teas and lovely dishes. Do go there
if you are hungry, the main courses are very filling! The service is very
friendly but can be sometimes slow as they get very busy. Worth a try, they are also doing drinks during the day, if you want to sit down. |
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SOHO 6 Greek Street, Soho, London W1 . Tel: 0207 734 3888. |
Are you vegetarian? No? Yes? Doesn't matter. But if you like vegetables, and good vegan thai-chinese cuisine, rice, excellent quality buffet (not like some chinese buffet in Soho which I will not name , they are so disgusting) and a lot of REAL choice, for £5-£7 you can have a wonderful meal there. Wonderful staff, green tea served. Funny this is very similar to TAI buffet nextdoor, which I used to go to a lot and now all the staff from there have moved to this new restaurant! it s much better than the old one (still open) they do 3 kinds of herbal tea! | |
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ANGEL
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Another vegetarian restaurant, near Old Street. For £3.95 you get an Indian buffet, with nice vegetables and -oh my god- the very rare BROWN RICE for the health freaks who like taste. This is the only restaurant I have visited so far which does brown rice, (loads of B vitamins in bran, keeps you healthy and regular) and they have lots of different soft drinks. Lovely for a quick snack (don't eat till tomorrow) | |
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TOTNES |
In the heart of Totness, this beautiful and strange town, is this little cafe which serves ORGANIC and vegetarian food (we love vegetables! ) and a succulent selection of soups, salads, gratins, very unusual. They unfortunatly also serve the biggest scrumptuousest cakes I have ever seen in a restaurant, which was too tempting to resist... but sugar, never again! Except in Totness. | |
| RESTAURANTS | Moroccan Cuisine | ||
Didn't have a camera at the Appollo, they
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LONDON Tel: 0208 563 7176 |
This Moroccan restaurant is a mix of Moroccan and Spanish, and is really
lovely! My favorite Moroccan in London! The service is fast, friendly, and
the food is excellent! Light, but sensationnal. They open till 11pm, so
be quick if you come out of a gig in the Apollo and you are feeling peckish.
Definitly worth looking out for! The decor is amazing too. Open Mon-fri lunch:12pm-3pm, Dinner 5.30PM-11.45PM . Closed Sat-Sun lunch, but open Sat dinner 5.30pm-11.45pm, sun 5.30pm-11pm |
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| RESTAURANTS - ITALY | Local Cuisine | ||
| NEAR GENOA Via Dei Giustiniani, 48 Recco |
Another excellent restaurant, not as posh than the Vittirio building wise but their Foccacia al formagio de Recco are nicer than the Vitturin's as they are lighter and tastier. Very good food, well worth trying if you are starving and have not eaten since a week. Not good for ladies on diet. | ||
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NEAR GENOA Tel: 0185 74029 |
If this is the one I think off, it s a brilliant restaurant, very upmarket, which has been there for decennies and is just super. The service is amazing, and they do a local speciality pizza with local cheese which one cannot find anywhere else. Good wines even though they are not French ;-) | |
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CRUGYBAR Nr Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire Wales SA19 8SA Tel: 0870 418 8183 |
Very nice hotel, cuisine is a bit nouvelle but still very very good. They know how to do blue steack. Lovely. Very good for photoshoots outside the house. |
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| Oldfield Hotel | BATH
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Very expensive and not as good value as France(very small rooms for £100) this hotel is though worth mentionning, very good breakfast. | |
