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The Rosemary – an organic Hungarian restaurant in London
How time flies when you’re having fun, eh? I realised the other day that this May, Cooksister will be celebrating its fifteenth birthday! It’s a pretty significant milestone and seeing as I love a...
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Review: Le Relais de Venise L’Entrecote
There is a French saying that says: Trop de choix tue le choix , or “too much choice kills the choice”. At first glance, this seems rather paradoxical to people who have been brought up in a society...
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Karapincha – Sri Lankan food in Canary Wharf
Ask Google how many restaurants there are in Greater London and you will get a number of answers of variying degrees of usefulness. I say this because the total number of establishment serving food in...
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Patron Cave a Manger (Review)
On my Instagram feed recently, in among all the photos of artfully messy food flatlays, impossibly glamorous women in maxi dresses on tropical beaches, and adorable kittens doing goofy things, I found...
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IT restaurant
About a million years ago (in a historical period also known as “February 2020”), back in a time when you would laughingly scoot up close to friends in a restaurant booth to squeeze in one extra...
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Myristica Grenadian supperclub
Pop quiz, friends… Who can tell me: a) what the red item on the right of the menu in the photo above is; and b) what the connection is between it and the excellent Grenada-themed Myristica supperclub...
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The Melusine
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.” Celebrated science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote this in 1969, but in the middle...
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Antillean
When I was about ten years old, my older sister (then in her mid 20s) decided that she was off to adventure and left South Africa on an extended working holiday. These were the early 1980s before...
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Masalchi by Atul Kochhar – Indian street food in Wembley
One of the odd upsides of the Covid pandemic and London’s interminable lockdowns is that it has now been so long since I visited some parts of London that arriving there (now that things are opening up...
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L’Atelier Robuchon, Mayfair (2024)
“In forming new friendships, forget not old friends.” – Roman Proverb As somebody who loves food and lives in London, it is remarkably easy to form new “friendships” with restaurants – on average,...
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