Mr.N had it all planned out. We were going to get the 6.08pm train into London Euston in order to get to Barrafina just before the queue got ridiculously long. After our civilised meal we would head to Liverpool Street for Mr.N’s cousin’s birthday drinks. The thing is, plans sometimes just don’t go to plan….
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The Crazy Bear, Fitzrovia, London: Ultra trendy Thai
I think I have said this before, but our friends and family are obsessed with giving Mr.N and I restaurant gift cards and experiences. I’m actually shocked that we both aren’t obese already. I’m not going to lie though, I have put on a tiny bit of “love” weight since the wedding. It’s actually got to…
Dehesa, London: Spain meets Soho
I had become well acquainted with Mr.R, an accountant who I had worked with some while ago, and as it turns out, he loves my blog! Our conversations are often based around food, and he is as critical, if not more than I am about his food. We decided to meet after work to explore…
The Rum Kitchen, London: Jerk Chicken and Caribbean Cocktail Central
We all have one of those weeks occasionally where we literally find ourselves counting down the hours and seconds until Friday. Last week was that week for me. Mr.N, being the romantic soul that he is, decided meet me for dinner after work to cheer me up. He took it upon himself to book The…
Blacklock, London: Chop notch grub
First and foremost, please accept my apologies for how long it has taken me to post a new blog, guys! Mr.N has been complaining about the amount of time I’ve kept him in hibernation! Truth is that we were really busy with moving into our new place and on top of that I landed myself…
MeatLIQUOR N1, London: Winging it?
MeatLIQUOR has been on my ‘must go to’ list for a while. I’m a junkie, there, I said it. No, not in the dodgy drug abusing sense but in the sense that I have an unhealthily frequent desire to binge on junk food. I love burgers, I love chicken wings, I love cheesy fries- I just love…
XO, London: Pan-Asian hits the spot
Mr.N and I were feeling in the mood for some dim sum or Japanese but neither of us fancied going all the way into the city. I thought I would ‘Foogle’- this is my term for using Google to hunt down a good and relatively local restaurant. The result was XO. This understated chic Pan-Asian restaurant is hidden…
Hunan, London: The Emperor strikes back at this Chinese tapas hidden gem
Our very close family friends, Mr.A and Mrs.K, decided to arrange dinner with us in the lead up to Mr.N’s 30th birthday celebrations and trusted restaurant guru, Mrs.K had something unusual in mind. I recall receiving a text from Mr.A a few days before the meal: “recommending any restaurant to you incites fear in me after…
Din Tai Fung: Taiwan’s Michelin star Dim Sum export soon gracing London’s foodie streets!
Mr.N and I visited Kuala Lumpur last year and just by chance in a mall stumbled upon what I now know to be the world’s best dim sum/dumpling restaurant! Din Tai Fung (“DTF”) originated in Taiwan in 1958 and now has over 100 branches all over the world including Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Australia…
Ossiano, Atlantis at The Palm, Dubai: Gettin’ fishy with it
In Dubai it’s sinful to not try a seafood restaurant. After much deliberating, Mr.N and I decided on Ossiano, one of the many acclaimed restaurants that Atlantis at The Palm has to offer. Ossiano has been named Best Seafood Restaurant three years consecutively by Time Out Dubai Restaurant Awards and won the coveted title of…
Qbara, Dubai: Mr.N’s Arabian affair
Wow, wow and more wow. I had done extensive pre-holiday restaurant research and Qbara quickly secured a spot on my ‘must eat here’ list. When I told Mr.N that the restaurant was in the Wafi Mall opposite the Raffles hotel (it looks like a really cool pyramid), he was understandably baffled. In the UK, when…
Sticks ‘n’ Sushi, London: faux anniversary
I had enough. I just had enough of constantly going to restaurants that everyone had already been to, I am an Aries after all and we certainly don’t like playing sheep. ‘New Japanese restaurants in London’ I typed into Google and tada, Sticks ‘n’ Sushi appeared. Sticks ‘n’ Sushi was founded by three half Japanese,…
London Lawyer Eats 