Restaurant Reviews & Suggestions - Where to eat?

Whereabouts are you staying or what do you have planned ?

I am staying at the Mondrian on Park Avenue for four days, and I have Il Gattopardo for a work thing on night 1. Would love a solid pizza rec, a lunch rec, and two evening meal reccs. I will check Eater, but people here seem to always know good spots.

So most of the places I have would be further south around lower east but here’s some I like.

Lunch
Her name is Han
Faiccos
Court st grocers
No1 taco

Dinner
Via Carota
Wildair
Ernestos
Wus wonton king
Altro paradiso
Great NY Noodletown

Pizza
Scarrs
Lucali
Prince st

This is awesome - tysm!

Random one, but does anyone have any suggestions for Warwick/Leamington Spa? Weirdly they don't have a section on Eater or Timeout....

Give me a few mins, my mate lives on Warwick high street and he eats out a lot so I'll get the reccos

While I'm waiting for him to get back, another mate runs a taco van and he's at Herbert's Yard thurs-sun in November. It's a bit of a schlep from Warwick but his El Pastor is amazing.

https://instagram.com/tacos.el.pap?igshid=aDg0YTIxdXIwcm9w

Mate says

For food I’d say:

If Warwick I would recommend La mesa or tasca Dali. Red hot mama for
pizza, chip shed for fish and bottomless chips. If a bit outside I
would recommend fleur de lis for their pies also super lovely and by
the canal in the country :)

Then leam maybe carisma, hayashi and raro :) red hot mama for pizza
and libertine for burgers.

Best restaurant in the area for fine dining is The Cross in
Kenilworth. I was there Sunday and it still absolutely rules

Don't really ever venture into Soho anymore, but a shoutout to Bao for their Horlicks ice cream sandwiched between a fried bao bun (one of the more doughnut shaped buns, not your usual soft and fluffy ones)

Any suggestions for a Christmas dinner? Right now I'm just thinking about Marksman because you can't really go wrong...

Thanks very much! I'll have a look into them

Everyone I know between Brum, Cov, and Leamington bangs on about Libertine so that's definitely one worth checking out

I'd love to try Babur, sadly not possible for me: https://www.babur.info/menus/christmas-day-lunch

Bristol recs? Ideally old market-way

Chido Way, Tomo no Ramen and Dough Heads are my favourite on that side of town

Ha - those are the ones we've come up with as well. But glad to hear.

Ha, yeah they're the classics. A bit further east, but Native Vine is also supposed to be very good - I've never tried but the bakery next door (Loaf), run by the same people, is great

Oh man, I miss Babur.

treated Mrs M to one our favourite places for late lunch at Wright Bros by Borough Market.

In return Mrs M treated me to Bread Ahead dough nuts.. when we got home

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Russell Norman has died.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/nov/24/russell-norman-restaurateur-and-author-dies-aged-57

I walked past polpo more times than I dined there, but loved spuntino so much I brought the cook book! Twice.

Jay Rayner makes mention of the fact that London’s dining out experience would be a lot different if Norman hadn’t come along and started polpo.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/24/russell-norman-small-plates-changed-british-dining-for-ever

I do love the design of his books though, the naked spine, so you could lie them flat to read recipes was a revelation (at least for me) and the recipes inside were good too..
Going to have a couple of picklebacks tonight, just because..
Ra

Last minute one, I’m out at a birthday party in Ladywell/lewisham sides, tonight!
Any recommendations for a solo eater over there?
Not Indian, not gastropub.
Thanks

If you wanna walk a little while the Malaysian deli in Crofton park is amazing. You could go to the beer dispensary and order in yard sale pizza.

There’s a good chip shop by Ladywell station.
Turkish place in Lewisham itself.
Behind Lewisham station some pizza place.

Went to Marksman for Sunday lunch having thoroughly enjoyed it before. Food was great but service was rather off; shouldn't have to take a drink order and then have to get up to go to the bar to remind them after 15 minutes, especially when it was rather quiet.

Grumble/I do love the brown butter and honey tart

Good Koreans near Russell Sq?

WooJung next to Tottenham Court Rd station, in the basement of a small supermarket.