ACE!? I felt marooned at Ace Hotel (where hip boys and girls play dress-up and doormen can tell a Raf Simons from a Prada bling) on the cusp of Midtown and Koreatown. In that premise there are a Michelin-starred (where I had an underwhelming breakfast), an oyster bar (I gave it a miss) and a …
Permanently parked! I love their sense of humour: London’s much lauded Meatwagon (subsequently reincarnated as #MEATEASY) found no better permanent location than at a car park, just behind Debenham’s, off Oxford Street. The collaborative brains behind MEATliquor Yianni Papoutsis and Scott Collins somehow kept the exterior of their famed burger shrine suspiciously banal. Inside it …
No reservations I had reservations for Pitt Cue Co. opening at London’s most commercially bustling quarter (arguably) Carnaby Street/ Soho. Not the kind of ‘reservations’ that involved sitting down (as the place does not take bookings) but those regarding the transformation of ‘street food’ into a roofed eatery. Last summer (I’m sure you all know) …
It would be wrong not to share this and there is no better way to sum it up.. .. my third round of cocktail tasting at Viajante Bar devised by the magnificent Alex Mckechnie. I blogged about it once (here). This time (as it was for the other bib’s birthday) I went a little further …
Two so-so meals at Cafe Pushkin could already have shattered my expectation of the Pushkin’s and we could have given Confectionery Pushkin (just next door to the restaurant a miss). NOPE. This did not happen. I had Pushkin cakes half a year back in Paris, at a small Cafe Pouchkine – very annoyingly Francocentric spelling …
UPDATES Right. Don’t know how to update this and will attempt it in under 200 words (an excuse for being lazy!). Same cocktail tasting menu but with some massive bowl of surprise and alterations on nibble pairings. (Viajante rocks!) This is how it went.. (do read in comparison with my first alcoholic trek below) Cucumber …