Darbaar

Darbaar

Darbaar is an Indian restaurant near the City, opened by a previous Cinnamon Club head chef. It promises to serve up ‘royal inspired modern Indian cuisine’. So, we were expecting good things from this place, hopefully a banquet fit for a king. It is housed 

Hoppers Soho

Hoppers Soho

I freely admit to being an uneducated peasant when it comes to Indian food.  I don’t know my rotis from dosas and I have no idea what a hopper is.  I thought it was some game that little kids used to play.  Where you would 

The Waterside Inn

The Waterside Inn

I usually am apprehensive about visiting hotel restaurants.  They managed to be consistently underwhelming.  After all, the logic seems to be if you have a captive audience for your food, why bother trying to deliver an outstanding product?  Yet, I had heard that the Waterside Inn 

Pizza Union

Pizza Union

My friends always like to make fun of me for being an old man stuck in a young boy’s body.  They bemoan my fussiness.  I prefer to refer to it as being discerning. When that stereotype doesn’t fit the bill, I morph into an immature 

Tang London

Noodles bars and specialist noodle restaurants have been popping up all over London in recent years, including the sublime Kanada-ya. Most of these have been Japanese, with ramen bars proliferating like a rash, almost as if London had an itch it couldn’t satisfy.  Departures from