Opera Tavern Review: 4.8 From Two Thousand People
Opera Tavern Review: 4.8 From Two Thousand People | One of the highest genuine ratings in either survey, on a sample large enough that it cannot be explained away
Tag: Covent Garden restaurant
Joe Allen Review: The Burger That Isn’t on the Menu
Joe Allen Review: The Burger That Isn’t on the Menu | Burleigh Street’s theatre basement has been running the same open secret since 1977 and would like you to keep it quiet
La Gamba Review: Named After a Prawn
La Gamba Review: Named After a Prawn | Fifteen hundred people have eaten in a restaurant called The Prawn and not one has remarked upon it
Big Easy Review: Louisiana, Reconstructed from Memory
Big Easy Review: Louisiana, Reconstructed from Memory | Maiden Lane’s enormous BBQ operation has 7,638 reviews and a bottomless lobster deal that should be studied by economists
Koha Review: A Word for a Gift With No Price
Koha Review: A Word for a Gift With No Price | In Maori, koha is a gift given without obligation – and the concept has no clean English equivalent, which tells you something
The Garden Bistro Bar Review: There Is No Garden
The Garden Bistro Bar Review: There Is No Garden | Eight hundred and twenty-seven people have eaten at a venue promising a garden, in Covent Garden, which is also not a garden
Le Garrick Review: A French Bistro Named After an Englishman
Le Garrick Review: A French Bistro Named After an Englishman | David Garrick made English acting respectable. There is now a French restaurant named after him, in a cellar, near his theatre.
Banana Tree Review: Every Banana You Have Eaten Is a Clone
Banana Tree Review: Every Banana You Have Eaten Is a Clone | The last one was wiped out by a fungus. The current one is genetically identical to itself, worldwide, and the same fungus is back.
Buns and Buns Review: The Bao Is a Sandwich and It Predates Ours
Buns and Buns Review: The Bao Is a Sandwich and It Predates Ours | Steamed, folded, filled – and the Chinese were doing it centuries before the Earl of Sandwich was born
Sussex Review: A British Bistro, Which Is a Contradiction in Terms
Sussex Review: A British Bistro, Which Is a Contradiction in Terms | A 4.6 restaurant calling itself a British Bistro – yoking together the English county and the French institution in one name