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Tucked away in Blossom Street – presumably the place in the City specialising in bulb investment and Chrsyanth futures.........
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Cuisine:
Modern Italian
Area:
Square Mile
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Beautifully located in Blossom Street,Roberto Paddo’s restaurant has achieved its mission to bring good, simple Italian fare to the Square Mile.
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Cuisine:
Modern Italian
Area:
Square Mile
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From pork pies and pints to champagne and caviar. Champagne and seafood bars have a very useful role to fulfil in the role call of life’s eating out occasions. A spontaneous celebration, a quick pick me up of fizz and protein, an extravagance for Friday lunch, the start of a longer evening out...
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Cuisine:
Fish & Seafood
Area:
City & Docklands
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Spitalfields may have been a culinary desert up until now, but that’s sure to change with the arrival of this superb new eaterie.
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Cuisine:
British
Area:
East London
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Once a restaurant expands and opens a few branches, one can't help but fear a drop in quality and standards. Will the chef get lazy, abandoning quality for economic success?
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Cuisine:
Italian
Area:
City & Docklands
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Conran restaurants have pioneered a look that was new to this country when Quaglino's opened (or should that be re-opened?)
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Cuisine:
French
Area:
Square Mile
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From the outside, Fluid looks like any other achingly trendy bar/club/restaurant in an achingly trendy part of town. Get through the door though and it's another matter. Fluid is a nice roomy bar, with lots of sofas and original coin-op games.
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Cuisine:
Japanese
Area:
Square Mile
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All chains should be this good. Fact.
Having supplied red meat and red wine to red faced business types for some years, Gaucho Grill is undergoing a reinvention.
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Cuisine:
Argentine
Area:
Square Mile
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Oh happy day. A new Mexican in London that’s: a)fantastic; and b) fantastic value. For those of us addicted to the joys of this cuisine – I can’t be alone in this, surely....
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Cuisine:
Mexican
Area:
East London
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Oh happy day. A new Mexican in London that’s: a) fantastic; and b) fantastic value.
Set in a Flat Iron-esque building near the Brick
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Cuisine:
Mexican
Area:
East London
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Several words spring to mind on entering Hara. Sleek is one. Cool is another. But it might take you a moment before you notice the best bit about this gorgeous space. It’s smoke free. Which means you can enjoy
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Cuisine:
Indian
Area:
City & Docklands
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As the name suggests, Just The Bridge is sister restaurant to Just St James and Oriental and is, indeed, by a bridge – the former “wobbly” Millennium Bridge in fact...
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Cuisine:
European
Area:
City & Docklands
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As the name suggests, Just The Bridge is sister restaurant to Just St James and Oriental (both already reviewed favourably on this site) and is, indeed, by a bridge – the former “wobbly” Millennium Bridge in fact. Its aspect over the Thames and opposite the Tate gives the restaurant a light, bright and open feel – even on a rainy Thursday - and makes for an enjoyably relaxed atmosphere.
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Cuisine:
European
Area:
City & Docklands
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The sums add up at Percento. While the horrible ‘70s buildings have come down around St Paul’s and before the (hopefully) wonderful new buildings are on the way up, there are some amazing, if temporary, views to be seen...
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Cuisine:
Italian
Area:
Square Mile
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Lookswise, Preem is functional rather than ostentatious. To be blunt, there’s not a lot to make it stick out from its crowd of Brick Lane rivals but that’s not meant as a criticism...
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Cuisine:
Indian
Area:
City & Docklands
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Lookswise, Preem is functional rather than ostentatious. To be blunt, there’s not a lot to make it stick out from its crowd of
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Cuisine:
Indian
Area:
City & Docklands
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It seems it’s a challenge to recreate the experience of real Italian dining in the UK. I am always on the look out for a restaurant that can produce the mouth-watering freshness of real Italian cooking.
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Cuisine:
Italian
Area:
City & Docklands
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It’s always a challenge to recreate the experience of real Italian dining in the UK but at Quadrato, chef Marco Bax has done a fine job
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Cuisine:
Italian
Area:
City & Docklands
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Restaurants with an EC postcode come and go like government pledges. I’ve lost track of how many evening visits I’ve taken to sparsely occupied City eateries where some bewildered staff member tells me “it’s really buzzing at lunchtimes”.
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Cuisine:
Indian
Area:
Square Mile
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Stepping through from the hotel lobby, Refettorio is a warm and welcoming. It’s achingly stylish, yet it becomes clear, within seconds, that this is not a victory of style over substance. This is all about the food and the drink.
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Cuisine:
Italian
Area:
Square Mile
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