Restaurant Reviews & Suggestions - Where to eat?

Not sure that sounds like tetsu to me - proprietors weren't older and I don't think they had a word menu?

(Disclaimer - it is 10yrs since I've been so things could have changed... And I guess they will be older now?!)

Any idea on location?
Rokkon in Chiswick ticks a few of those boxes.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fTDznbwEjagA21BU9

Caveat that I've actually never been though.

Shame about Oven East - the food was always really good, and good value, it just never seemed very busy.

Sounds about right although I wouldn't call their pricing middle of the road... I guess it is compared with somewhere like The Araki.

It's absolutely worth it, btw (Tetsu, I can't comment on The Araki)

Regarding the Brick Lane bagel shops, this was in the trade press this morning

Britain’s oldest bagel shop closed in ‘row over money’:

A bitter financial dispute may be behind the dramatic closure of a bagel shop in London’s Brick Lane which claims to be the UK’s oldest.

The Beigel Shop at 155 Brick Lane suddenly closed this week, with a legal notice pasted up suggesting it was being repossessed. But the mystery later deepened when a new sign was pasted up instead suggesting that the closure was due to an electrical fault and promising that it would reopen soon, reports the Daily Mail.

But the sudden closure may be down to an escalation in a dispute between the family that runs the store and its landlords.

“This is all about a fallout between the owners of the freehold and the people who run it over money,” a source told the newspaper. “A new family took over running the place a few years back and there’s been increasing dispute between them and the landlords. I’m not sure of the precise details but it’s ultimately down to money.” Another source said: “The same thing happened 10 years ago – a falling out between the people who own the freehold and the people who run the shop, although there’s different people running it now. But I expect the same thing will happen and it’ll reopen soon because it’s so popular that it’s throwing away money to keep it closed for long.”

The registered owner of the bakery is Ellis Zelman. Until last September, Beigel Shop Brick Lane was co-owned by Ashley and Ellis Zelman, but in September Ashley’s shares were all transferred to Ellis, giving him sole control. According to Land Registry documents, the building appears to be separately owned by Derrick, Darren and Karen Lefcoe. No one from either party responded to attempts for comment.

The store’s last public accounts cover the year to September 2022 and show the company was £17,643 in the red. There are suggestions that the shop may have history stretching back to the 19th century, but other accounts say it has only been in the area for a few decades. Open 24/7, the Beigel Shop has existed in some form or another from its current site since at least 1987, when a pair of Israeli brothers bought the then-Evering Bakery business. Its sign claims it was founded in 1855.

I wouldn't call them cheap, it was just from looking at other omakase places. Seems like the lowest you'd find is about £100 pp.

Meant to be going here for lunch tomorrow https://www.behindrestaurant.co.uk/

Annoyingly they didn't send me a confirmation email when I booked it. More annoyingly they are too trendy to have a phone number so you can have a 30 second phone call to confirm. Even more annoyingly they don't answer their emails.

Pretty undecided what to do.

Anyone got any food suggestions for Penzance?

Was a couple of years back and we hung around down the road in Newlyn mainly, but…

Jelberts for ice cream. They do one flavour (vanilla) and it’s lovely stuff
Argoe - sea food near Newlyn harbour
Mackerel Sky - similar
Totti - pizza and 90s football references
Tolcarne Inn - tbh didn’t really enjoy this for the £ vs the great food we had elsewhere

Thanks, helping me on food and coffee! I'm sure my colleagues will give me some suggestions but it's always good to go with some info as well.

45 Queen st
Mackerel sky
Crumb
If you have car, cove cafe in Hayle for lunch. Great setting and good food.

Any suggestions for something quick near the Roundhouse?

I’m looking for a nice cafe:low key restaurant Something quick, nice, and old person friendly. Somewhere near HoP/westminster or Covent Garden maybe.

Enjoyed my visit to Forza Wine above the National Theater in Southbank recently.

Got treated to The Ledbury last night by some mates - wasn't aware / didn't look it up ahead of time, assumed from the name it was a smart gastropub. It is not. but for a 3* joint it was a very relaxed experience and we were treated extremely well. Had to restrain the urge to go full great british menu judging roleplay. Beautiful food - simpler plates were my favourite, the veal sweetbreads and 'mushrooms from the cupboard' were off the hook.

St Martin in the Fields crypt cafe is nice. Just by Trafalgar Square

Thanks for this list, only managed to hit Mackerel Sky but it was good!

Totti has changed hands and the new place is so popular that at 20.00 they'd run out of pizza bases...

I did go to a bakery called Loaf and have a pasty for under a fiver that was fucking fantastic and would easily cost £12 in London.

Similar experience at a Cornish deli called Lavender where I had the best pasty of my life costing only £3.50 and it was very welcome when I got my bike stuck in a swampy bog purporting to be a bridleway.

Regency Cafe? It's literally a cafe, but a very good one. Old people will love it.
https://regencycafe.has.restaurant/

This looks good.

I don’t think that’ll appease the olds.

Hmm. I like it I don’t think it’ll appeal to the tough crowd I’m dealing with.
(My mum and her mates)

Loaf is brilliant isn’t it?

I had a croissant cube thing filled with jam and covered in peanut butter glaze with a Reese's cup on top and it might be the most wonderful thing I've ever expensed

One of these:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3aoIMpoqis/?igsh=bXduNnFhdTRrZDE=

Robuchon make those in London, not cheap

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gcUgpLCamBugLYbCA?g_st=ic