Monthly Archives: November 2009
Weekly Round-Up of National Critics’ Restaurant Reviews by @OliverThring
Marina O’Loughlin visits Pizza East, Nick Jones’s ‘sprawling’ Shoreditch pizza parlour. Her bianca with veal meatballs is ‘a thing of real loveliness’, while cauliflower carbonara is ‘luscious’ and a dish of doughnuts with chocolate sauce is ‘a keeper’. Staff can … Continue reading
Restaurants at Christmas by @OliverThring
Christmas looms, and that means we’re veering into office party season, that sloshed embittered wasteland of social interaction. Nigel, gazing into his Rioja, dolefully telling his bored neighbour how he wished he’d taken that job in Dubai in ’98. Anne … Continue reading
Weekly Round-Up of National Critics’ Restaurant Reviews by @OliverThring
John Walsh is at Allium in Gloucestershire, the current Good Food Guide Restaurant of the Year for south-west England. The Independent’s critic finds its atmosphere “oddly antiseptic”, and a dish of crayfish, coconut and sweetcorn is “the most revolting thing … Continue reading
The horrors of restaurant websites by @OliverThring
I spend an inordinate amount of time on restaurant websites. It’s the occupational hazard of food blogging. People come to you and say, ‘I’m off to a nose flute recital in Neasden tonight. What’s the best coeliac Mongolian round there?’ … Continue reading
Weekly Round-Up of National Critics’ Restaurant Reviews by @OliverThring
Welcome to the second weekly round-up of reviews from the national restaurant critics by food writer and blogger Oliver Thring. The Review of the Week is undoubtedly Zoe Williams’s touching and funny description of dinner at La Rueda. The Telegraph … Continue reading
@OliverThring: The spread of the burrito in the UK
Whenever I was in the States, and began to compare (as we all do) home and away, I used to think that what London needed wasn’t malls, multiplexes or Taco Bells, or the grating guff of I’m-Wanda-and-I’ll-be-your-waitress, or Creosote portions … Continue reading
Weekly Round-Up of National Critics’ Restaurant Reviews by @OliverThring
Welcome to our first instalment collecting the reviews of the national restaurant critics along with a highlight from the blogosphere in one handy space. Every Monday, food writer and blogger Oliver Thring will scout out the best reviews from across … Continue reading
New website connects people with a passion for eating out
An online portal, which brings people with a passion for food together to share their dining out experiences, has been launched. iStarvin, a site that combines the convenience of a restaurant directory with in-depth content and eye-catching photos, connects individuals … Continue reading