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  • Turning back the clock at 1901
    Food & Drink: Formerly Aurora in Conran's Great Eastern Hotel, 1901 is now Hyatt boutique brand Andaz. It's a truly beautiful room one of the few in London that can genuinely drop jaws crowned with a striking stained-glass cupola.




  • More than a Flash in the pan
    Food & Drink: How much you care about pop-up, or guerrilla, restaurants probably depends on how shallow you are. Or should that be fashionable?




  • 'The worst and most inedible food'
    Food & Drink: The food at Bel Canto is diabolical - overpriced and inedible - but the opera singers who accompany your meal, charm Metro's reviewer with their youth and beauty and enthusiasm in the face of overwhelmingly negative odds.




  • Tendido Cuatro
    Food & Drink: South Ken's Cambio de Tercio and Tendido Cero are among the best Spanish restaurants in London so Fulham should be delighted with the arrival of stablemate Tendido Cuatro.




  • Le Bouchon Breton's je ne sais quoi
    Food & Drink: Abouchon is native to Lyons, a dark, snug, smoky place well, until the ban that smells seductively of garlic, wine and roasting meats. Le Bouchon Breton is nothing of the sort.




  • The River Cafe rises from the ashes
    Food & Drink: This is a restaurant that amply deserves its booked-out longevity. It's no exaggeration to contend that owners Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray dramatically changed the way Britain eats or, at least, thinks about eating while tucking into its M&S ready meal.




  • Maldivian curry is the new sensation
    Food & Drink: Curry-heads take heed: it's National Curry Week and, with sales of spices at a record high now people are cooking from scratch, it's time to welcome the mas riha, a Maldivian curry to blow the taste buds.




  • Its not love at first sight at Murano
    Food & Drink: Murano is good but I just can't get excited about it. As the Collins English Dictionary now puts it: meh.




  • New Casa Brindisa is more than welcome
    Food & Drink: Even if it isnt an unmitigated wow, a new Brindisa is always mighty welcome.




  • The irresistible Jiang to my yin
    Food & Drink: Min Jiang is a welcome addition to the scene: an upmarket, traditional Chinese delivering better food than China Tang and able to hold its head up among the Hakkasans and Hunans.




  • Cook up a festive feast
    Food & Drink: Yikes! The glut-fest begins in two weeks. From a cut of fine meat to cheaper chocs, Chloe Scott reveals indispensable holiday meal-making tips.




  • The dubious tastes of Charlies Dead
    Food & Drink: Charlie's Dead makes Metro's reviewer think of City boys unable to afford their daily snort not an appetising image.




  • Expect a long wait at York & Albany
    Food & Drink: It might take weeks to book a table but it's fair to say this Camden newcomer is a roaring success. Whatever anyone might say about Ramsay and his cohorts, major kudos for saving this building, a previously mouldering Regency gem.




  • Bar Trattoria Semplice
    Food & Drink: Located just beside the 'contemporary' incarnation of Spaghetti House, Trattoria Semplice shows that old warhorse how accessible Italian food should be done.




  • Bransons Babylon revamp has no taste
    Food & Drink: When Richard Branson's Babylon restaurant opened way back when, it made me come over all starry-eyed. The view! The fact that it looks over the legendary Roof Gardens! The handsome waiters!



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