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7 Pratt St.
Camden Town NW1 0AE 
0207 267 8088 Greek 7 days £20-£30
Shame on you! I noticed you don't have any Greek restaurants listed in your database. Please consider including Cafe Corfu, one of my favorite restaurants in London. It's nothing like London's usual Cypriot tavernas. Excellent fish dishes. My girfriend had the Pilafi tou Psara, a seafood rice main course that was out of this world. I had the Arni Giouvetsi, a lamb shank in cinnamon tomato broth that melted off the bone. Service is very friendly. Great decor as well. Check it out. Desserts were very unusual as well. The Lemonpitta I tried was a tangy lemon cheese cake with preserved lemons.
Review Cafe Corfu3 Delancey Street, London, NW1 7NL 020 7387 1985 Chinese 24 Hours £20-£30
Cafe Delancey is DREADFUL! I went there with my husband at the weekend. The staff ignored us - despite the place being empty. The food was terrible - sloppily cooked with poor ingredients. The prices were quite ridiculous for the quality and quantity of food that appeared on your plate. As I said, the place was empty (we shoul have remembered that there is always a good reason for a restaurant to be entirely empty!) but even so a woman, who appeared to be the manager, had the table cleared and wiped practically before we'd laid our forks down! We took this as an invitation to leave though for the price we would have liked a leisurely meal. We didn't feel the slightest bit guilty at withholding the tip.
All and all it was a horrible dining experience - so bad that I made a point of writing a review to dissuade any other hapless couple wandering through Camden town from trying what appears to be quite a nice restaurant from the outside. Looks can be deceiving - this place is an unpleasant rip off - STEER WELL CLEAR!!!
Review Cafe Delancey11-14 Hanover Place WC2 9JP 020 7379 3444 French Mon-Sat £20-£30
Surrounded by the London's Theatres, tucked away off Long Acre, Cafe des Amis offers the best seasonal cuisine for over 25 years in our main restaurant.
For the who want somewhere to relax after work our downstairs bar offers fine wines, glass of bubbly with a plate of cheese or something more substantial from our bar menu.
check out our website for more details:
www.cafedesamis.co.uk
Review Cafe des Amis51 St Martin's Lane WC2N 4EA 020 7836 8289 French Mon-Sat £20-£30
Chain of french bistrots. Can be a little more expensive that you would expect, but the set menus offer good value
Review Café Flo21 Dean Street
Soho W1 020 7434 9393 Indian 7 days £20-£30
Situated in the Soho Theatre development on Dean Street, Cafe Lazeez offers a modern take on Indian food. As with many of the new style indian restaurants, this is not the place to come for a Chicken Madras and six pints of Kingfisher, instead expect authentic yet innovative food, good service in elegant surroundings. A full restaurant is downstairs, and the ground floor is more informal with a lighter menu.
A cautionary note: the very 'happening' bar upstairs is a little expensive, even though the food is very reasonably priced.
Review Cafe Lazeez5 Langley Street, Covent Garden WC2 020 7379 77 Mexican 7 days £10-£20
In all my 44 years I have never had a worse meal. Walking into a restaurant on Saturday lunchtime in Covent Garden and finding it only a third full should have warned me that something was wrong. The bad service was only surpassed in awfulness by the horrible music (playing bad music as loud as possible does not make it any better) and even this was not as bad as the bland pap that was laughingly called Mexican food. I was accompanied my American wife, who used to live in LA, so she has had Mexican food cooked by Mexicans and she was also disgusted by the food. Her comment was “What is this slop, as it certainly isn’t Mexican food”. They deserve to be sued by the Mexican embassy in London for the insult to Mexican cuisine. They make Taco Bell look like cordon bleu. Save yourself money and have a McDonalds, it will taste better and be spicier. If you value your taste buds eat elsewhere.
Review Cafe Pacifico - 5 Langley Street, Covent Garden- 0The Estorick Collection
Northampton Lodge
39a, Canonbury Square, London N1 N1 0171-704-6545 Italian Mon-Sat Under £10
Cafe Panini serves modern Italian Food ranging from, Panini style sandwiches, salads, daily lunchtime specials, hand-made cakes, and carries a small selection of Italian wines and beer, to go with the usual selection of Coffee, soft drinks and teas. We are open from wed-sat 11am to 5.30pm and sun 12pm to 4.30pm.
Review Café Panini15 Frith St W1V 5TS 020 7437 4307 French 7 Days £20-£30
Chain of french bistrots, good for a coffee and snack.
Review Café Rouge16 Precott St E1 020 7488 9242 Indian Mon-Fri £30-£50
One of the first to extend the concept of the Indian restaurant beyond Chicken Madras - an extensive menu shows Goan touches (including pork dishes). Especially enjoable for those who have become hackneyed with Indian cuisine.
Review Café Spice Namaste118 marylebone lane W1U 2QF 02079351144 Italian 7 days £10-£20
On the first floor, the restaurant serves a wide range of regional dishes for lunch and dinner. This means that we will search our traditional and lesser-known recipes from all over Italy. Our staff orginate from eleven out of the twenty-one regions of Italy and we have drawn upon their personal knowledge to bring this menu to this London restaurant.
Review Caffè Caldesi38 King St WC2E 8JS 020 7836 1976 African Mon-Sat £20-£30
African Restaurant in the African Centre in Convent Garden.
Review Calabash15-17 Marylebone lane W1U 2NE 02079359226/7 Italian Mon-Sat £20-£30
Established for 12 years, Caldesi is proudly owned by Giancarlo and Katie. It is a true family business inspired by the cuisine of Giancarlo's native Tuscany. Every detail from recipes to decor is overseen with great care and attention to keep the authenticity and standards of this popular neighbourhood restaurant. The majority of the dishes are recipes that have never been written down but have been verbally handed down from generation to generation in-keeping with true Tuscan family tradition.
Review Caldesi Restaurant8 Market Place,
Oxford Circus,
London W1N 7AG 020 7636 2228 Italian 7 days £10-£20
Italian Caffe and Delicatessan just off from Oxford Street.
Good quality Italian food with informal atmosphere and seating outside in good weather.
Run by the charismatic Antonio Carluccio
Review Carluccio's Caffe and Food Shop4 Sydney Street, London SW3 6PP 0207 622 3060 Italian Mon-Sat £20-£30
Carpaccio is a traditional Italian restaurant just off Fulham Road (nearest tube South Kensington), open for lunch and dinner from Monday to Saturday. Bring the whole family - children are very welcome at Carpaccio.
The restaurant features an impressive modern interior with a glass atrium. A private bar for diners only is situated on the lower floor adjacent to the open kitchen.
Review Carpaccio61 newington green
london n16 9px 02073540772 Indian 7 days £10-£20
italian restaurant which has a great variety of food which includes pizza, pasta, fish, chicken & steak
Review charlotte 's8 Charlotte St W1P 1HD 020 7636 4975 French 7 Days £20-£30
Famed for its steak/frites. Chateaubriand (for two) is rather good if you're a carnivore.
Review Chez Gerrard119 Chancery Lane WC2A 020 7405 0290 French Mon-Sat £20-£30
Another branch of the good quality steak-frites restaurant.
Review Chez Gerrard Chancery Lane31 Dover St W1X 020 7499 8171 French Mon-Sat £20-£30
Another branch of the good quality steak-frites restaurant.
Review Chez Gerrard Dover StWhite Bear Yard, 25A Lisle St WC2H 7BA 020 7734 3388 Chinese 7 Days £20-£30
Pleasant Chinese restaurant in small courtyard off Lisle St. Reasonably varied menu.
Review China City20-21 Leicester Sq WC2H 7LE 020 7839 6925 Mexican 7 Days £20-£30
As with most mexican restaurants in London, a venue for margheritas and some basic mexican food to mop it up.
Review ChiquitoUNIT 3
VALLEY PARK LEISURE COMPLEX,
PURLEY WAY,
CROYDON,
SURREY CR0 3JB 020 86868341 Mexican 7 days £10-£20
Mexican and Tex Mex Menu
Full Cocktail Menu
Buffet available Mon - Friday 12 till 4 £4.95
Happy Hour 4 till 7 - Half Price appitizers at the bar and £1 off all cocktail's.
Lively atmosphere with booths for those wanting a bit of privacy.
The best margherita's in town.
DON'T SIESTA COME AND FIESTA !
Review CHIQUITO RESTAURANT & BARfulham road
sw6 sw6 0207 351 4747 modern eclectic 7 days £20-£30
The style is elegant and delightfully easy and the food dominated by Justin Earl's imaginative mix of intensity of flavour and luxurious execution. In addition a bargain 2 or 3 course Sunday lunch menu offers succulent lamb and beef or superlative seared calves liver.The desserts are exceptional. An intelligently assembled short wine list and attentive and slick service which is never intrusive means this is an experience not to be missed.
Review chives16 Albemarle street, Mayfair
W1X 3HA 0207 629 9802 Indian 7 days £30-£50
Opens at 11am every day.
Review Chor Bizarre 2-3 Denman St
London
w1 D 7HA 0207 836 8635 Indian 7 days £10-£20
The Chowki features re-creations of traditional Indian home foods covering a colossal landmass stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean and from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal. It incorporates all the 22 States including the lesser known ones such as Andhra, Assam, Himachal, Karnataka, Kerela, Goa and Hyderabad; lesser known regions such as Chettinad, Coorg, Mangalore, Pondicherry, Diu and Daman,; minority communities comprising Boris, Sindhis, Parsees, Jains , Marwaris and Syrian Christians and major castes including the high-born Brahmins.
Indian home food resembles Indian music in as much as both are in unwritten codes, handed down through the generations from mothers to daughters – the revered custodians of home-cooking traditions and the supreme exponents of its techniques.
In re-creating home food, Chowki’s Chefs and cooks are trained to follow in their footsteps.
They buy spices whole, not ready ground or mixed, so as to ensure the quality is pure. They grind them in-house using a device that prevent their volatile oils evaporating, then store them in small quantities in air tight containers to preserve those attributes that give home-cooked food their unique colours, aromas, flavours and taste.
Spices not available here are imported directly and exclusively from India.
Their range of main ingredients include kid instead of lamb, which takes longer to cook but is leaner, tastier, more aromatic and most compatible with Indian spices.
They cut, cook and serve all meat on the bone to enhance taste and obtain optimum nourishment.
They use only seasonal vegetables and cut them carefully. Cauliflower, for example, is vertically sliced so that each piece contains half a florette and a matching stalk.
When they make a curry, they might use any number of ingredients-but they never use a flour.
Vegetables, yoghurt and rice are always freshly made, so is the dough for bread and so is every type of bread for every meal.
Infact, Chowki’s cooks freshly cook every dish and every ingredient in it, although in many households main ingredients are cooked in advance and seasoned and even curried later.
Finally, as every woman of the house has to do, chefs too have to produce a well balanced meal, a la the teachings of Ayurveda, and even more importantly, to do so with tender, loving care.
THE RESTAURANT
The Chowki, within striking distance of Cupid’s arrow in Piccadilly Circus, is a 150 seat, new, fully licensed restaurant on two levels.
The interior design is a modern version of the sociable and convivial environment in which an Indian family enjoys a meal at home together.
The Chowkis, or tables, from which the restaurant takes its name resemble the wooden platform on which the food is placed at home and the straight-back chairs resemble the stools.
Together they accommodate no more than eight persons, the size of an average family. Just the right number for an intimate diner party, say the society pundits.
The restaurant is open daily from 12 noon to 12 midnight.
THE SPLIT THALI SERVICE
The Chowki food is presented, as you would expect in a thali, but with two exceptions. Firstly, it is not made of copper or aluminum but of fine, snow white bone china in order to emphasise the ravishing colours of food. Secondly, it is split into two pieces to accommodate a multi-course meal, unlike the Indian thali in which the complete meal is served.
Using the Chowki thali, the starter is served on the smaller piece and when that is almost consumed, the main course served hot on in the larger piece, dovetails perfectly with the smaller to make a whole thali, thus providing the diner ample space to enjoy his main course.
Review Chowki18 Wellington Street
London WC2E 7DD 020 7240 4222 American 7 days £30-£50
Grand Theatrical Restauarnt on 3 floors with the main dining room located on the first floor which is reached by a grand sweeping stone staircase. Christopher's bar is located on the ground floor which offers a lighter menu and fantastic cocktails. Christopher's private dining room is on the lower ground floor.
Review Christopher's The American Grill54 Lamb's Conduit Street WC1N 3LW 020 7405 1717 Spanish Mon-Sat £20-£30
Cigala offers modern Spanish food in the 'up and coming' area of Lamb's conduit street. The Tapas bar downstairs is good for a drink (and offers several varieties of sherry nicely chilled as an aperetif), but the seating arrangement is not really suitable as a venue for food. Upstairs, the restaurant proper is a more elegant and formal affair, with an open kitchen serving great grilled fish and seafood, along with reinterpretations of traditional Spanish dishes. Portions are generous and because of some excellent PR work, the restaurant is always busy so book in advance.
Review Cigala26B Albemarle St W1 020 7486 4860 Modern British Mon-Sat £50+
Olivery Peyton's fancy Mayfair restaurant offers inventive (bordering on the insane) food in what was once a car showroom. The décor unfortunately doesn't break up the large space sufficiently and leaves the restaurant feeling cold; especially towards the end of the evening when it begins to empty. Service is totally wrong - for a hugely expensive gastro restaurant, you'd expect subtle attentive service, however the service is sloppy and informal. The hand made chocolates to go with after dinner coffee were sublime with the caramel and sea salt and the basil crème centres outstanding.
Review Coast69 Colebrooke Row
Islington
London N1 8AA 020 7226 7517 Modern British 7 days £10-£20
Press Release
COLEBROOKE’S WINE BAR OPENS IN ISLINGTON
Islington’s newest wine bar, Colebrooke’s, has opened on the site of Tony Maroni’s restaurant in Colebrooke Row, where Tony and his mamma served traditional Italian nosh for more than a quarter of a century. In fact is it possible to have lived in Islington for 25 years and never known Tony Moroni’s existence.
Tucked away just off the Essex Road near Islington Green, Colebrooke’s is an ideal destination for those looking for a light meal or quite drink in a cosy, intimate and above all local atmosphere. Only slightly off the beaten track yet a million miles away from soulless bar and pub chains. Customers can relax to a quality mix of jazz, blues, funk and house music.
Independently-owned, Colebrooke’s offers a local feel with a thoughtful selection of wines, Champagnes and continental beers.
Perfectly mixed cocktails cost from £5.00 and bar manager Felix Cemmell (formerly of Corney & Barrow, St Paul’s) promises to mix the best Bloody Mary or Gin & Tonic in Islington.
Antipasti, charcuterie, paté and ‘health option’ sharing plates (serving 2 to 3 people) cost between £11.95 and £12.95. The home made chutney is worth the No. 73 bus ride on its own.
The pudding selection offers sumptuous iced desserts include an amaretto parfait, Belgian chocolate praline skewers for between £3.95 and £4.25, which can be enjoyed with a liqueur, champagne or a glass of Botrytis Semillion dessert wine.
Light bites of classic gourmet cheeses, patés, fish balls, and fresh cuts of quality European cold meats are also available individually with a choice of breads or crackers for between £3.75 and £5.95.
The wine list is relatively short – less than 30 bottles – though well thought out, with the highly popular, dry, sprightly and eminently refreshing Pinot Grigio for £14.25 a bottle leading up to a rather splendid Lebanese Cabernet Sauvignon with an inviting black cherry fruit and spicy oak characteristics for £23.45.
Available for private hire in its entirety, Colebrooke’s has 36 covers and is licensed for 50 guests with seating removed. There are also a number of pavement tables protected from the elements by retractable awning.
Current opening hours:
Sun-Mon: 11.00-22.30
Tues-Wed: 11.00-23.00
Thurs-Sat: 11.00-24.00
(Extension under application)
69 Colebrooke Row
Islington
London
N1 8AA
T: 020 7226 7517
E: info@colebrookes.co.uk
W: www.colebrookes.co.uk
Nearest tube: Angel.
Review Colebrooke's90 Bedford Hill SW12 9HR 020 8673 5393 Asian 7 days £20-£30
Monday - Friday: 6.30pm to midnight
Saturday: 1.00pm to midnight
Sunday: 1.oopm to 10.30pm
Eclectic, regularly-changing selection of the best dishes from south-east asia and the indian subcontinent.
Review compilASIAN9 Tottenham St W1P 020 7631 3912 Vegetarian 7 Days Under £10
One of the first chains of vegetarian cafés. Reasonable range of good value food, with several Cranks classics such as Homity Pie always available. Unfortunately a recent makeover has reduced it's personal ambience and left it feeling a bit like a vegetarian McDonalds, but it's still a good bet for a quick healthy bite to eat.
Review Cranks22 Basil Street, Knightsbridge SW3 1AT 020 7589 5171 French 7 days £30-£50
The Capital Restaurant is legendary. From its opening in 1971, it became one of the first hotel restaurants in Britain to be awarded a Michelin star. In 2001 the restaurant and Head Chef Eric Chavot were awarded a second Michelin star, retained to this day. The restaurant and bar have recently undergone major re-design and now sport a suave, elegant, luxurious yet understated look inspired by the 1940s. Recently was awarded by Conde Nast Traveller in their Gold List 2006 as the "Best Hotel for Food" in the world.
Review The Capital Restaurant82 Whitton Road
Hounslow
Middlesex TW3 2DD 020 8570 4503 Contemporary English Fine Dining Mon-Sat £10-£20
The West End has finally come to Hounslow, as witnessed at last weekend’s launch of 'The Chapel Restaurant', a contemporary English restaurant now offering 5-star food at affordable prices within a couple of minutes walk from the High Street.The brainchild of Toby Price, a former banqueting manager for Heathrow's Edwardian hotel, 'The Chapel' is situated in the Shire Horse public house on Whitton Road, and offers something a little different from the average Hounslow eatery.Rather than the now ubiquitous pub-cum-Thai restaurant, The Chapel offers English cuisine, cooked to the highest standards, with prices on the more than impressive menu hovering around the £10-£20 mark.Starters include pan fried goats cheese and stewed figs, lobster and avocado, and spiced beef ginger with ravioli amongst others, with main courses ranging from Chicken Breast stuffed with garlic and herb cheese and black forest ham with yellow fin potatoes and oyster mushroom sauce, to diamonds of sea bass with chervil butter and garlic mash, all of which look delicious, and scored top marks with the Times personal survey.The restaurant’s high standards are to be expected as Toby’s background in fine cuisine has ensured a number of high profile names from the industry have joined him in the venture.Ian Campbell, Head Chef of the Radisson Edwardian assisted in designing the kitchen, which has been completely transformed, Tom Gorrie, previously of Richmond’ Bar Estillo is the Maitre D’ and restaurant Manager, and hs second in command is Robert Taylor, a former operations manager of the fine dining restaurant at the Radisson. Mr Price said “My idea is to try to bring the West End to Hounslow. There is nothing in the borough that is offering anything like this, where you can get good, traditional food at these sorts of prices. Even a late license is hard to get in Hounslow. On every corner there is a Thai restaurant offering the same kind of thing. With the Chapel’s personnel, exquisite food and candlelit atmosphere, it’s hard to disagree. The Chapel is located within 500 yards from the main high street with a fully lit, spacious car park, a late supper licence for alcohol and a bar menu, including nachos, fajitas and pastas, with medallions of beef also available.- Taken form The Brentford, Chiswick and Isleworth Times, Thursday 31st Oct 2002 - For reservations, call The Chapel on 020 8570 4503
Review The Chapel Restaurant264 Brompton Road
South Kensington
London SW3 2AS 020 7225 1212 Modern British 7 Days £20-£30
The glittering catwalk beyond the discreetly signed entrance welcomes people to this most spirited of dining experiences; definitely not for the self conscious. The huge New York style interior, propped up by giant wooded pillars, incorporates a cocktail bar of no little repute and the restaurant on the Mezzanine floor. Modern British, globally influenced, food is the order of the day, and changes seasonally. The food is of exceptionally high standards: always innovating and excelling. In the evening the lights dim and the panache and fun of the evening indulgence begins.
Review The Collection224 Piccadilly
W1V 9LB 020 7930 0488 French Mon-Sat £30-£50
The Criterion Brasserie in the heart of Piccadilly Circus, is owned by the celebrated chef, Marco Pierre White, the youngest chef and the first Englishman, ever to be awarded 3 Michelin Stars.
The menu is dominantly French with Mediterranean influences and allows exceptional food to be enjoyed in captivating surroundings.
Glittering mosaics adorn the whole ceiling, while the walls are recessed with pillared arches decorated with motifs inspired by ancient Constantinople. The soft, shimmering light conjures images of "The Arabian Nights" creating a romantic atmosphere in which to enjoy food of simplicity yet great quality.
Review The Criterion
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