The words that I wish I had written over the past year. Continue reading →
https://pickyglutton.com/2023/01/03/food-writing-jealousy-list-2022/
Rest easy: The best food writing I've read this year isn't about the pandemic Continue reading →
https://pickyglutton.com/2022/01/02/food-writing-jealousy-list-2021/
Finely-crafted words to absorb along with a cup of coffee underneath a snug blanket Christmas and New Year’s are all about traditions. For this website, my minor festive tradition is to round u...
https://pickyglutton.com/2020/12/28/the-must-read-food-writing-of-2020/
The best dishes of the year that you haven’t tried yet As another year – and another decade – come to an end, it’s tempting to feel a sense of melancholy. The country as a whole rushes he...
https://pickyglutton.com/2020/01/04/favourite-london-restaurant-dishes-2019/
Words I wish I had written in the past year Food is an inextricable part of our lives, so it’s no surprise that what we eat is often intertwined with other parts of our society. From where we e...
https://pickyglutton.com/2020/01/03/the-2019-food-writing-jealousy-list/
Closure to the year in restaurants 2018 has been one hell of a year for restaurants in London. While plenty of new restaurants have opened, an alarmingly large number of restaurants have closed t...
Words I wish I had written in 2018 (and 2017, for that matter) As 2018 staggers to an end, the realisation dawns on me that I’ve been writing this website for almost eight years. The number of ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2018/12/03/the-2018-food-writing-jealousy-list/
2017 has been an incredibly hectic year for London restaurants, even by the frenetic standards of this city. Despite the closure of some much missed favourites, new restaurants have continued to ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2018/01/04/the-best-dishes-of-2017/
London’s latest wellness food fad explained – and debunked Update 5/03/2017 – added clarification about the sourcing of Pizzicotto’s activated charcoal pizza flour and responses received,...
https://pickyglutton.com/2017/03/03/what-is-activated-charcoal-everything-you-need-to-know/
2016: I love you and I hate you 2016 may have a stomach churning, gut punching year in the realm of politics and celebrity deaths, but at least it’s also been a rip-roaring thrill ride for Lon...
https://pickyglutton.com/2017/01/04/the-best-dishes-of-2016-london-restaurants/
Words I wish I had written This website is all about restaurant reviews, but I’ve been a writer (in various ways) long before I started this site. I know of two prime ways (just two) of becomin...
https://pickyglutton.com/2017/01/02/the-2016-food-writing-jealousy-list/
What a year it’s been Ah 2015, I barely knew you. It’s been one hell of a year for dining out in London with a bevy of new and interesting restaurants opening in the capital. I usually end t...
https://pickyglutton.com/2016/01/01/the-best-dishes-of-2015-london-restaurants/
The pop-up restaurant for dogs that’s either the dog’s bollocks or a dog’s breakfast It’s funny how your day can turn out, especially in odd and unexpected ways. I don’t usually write ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2015/04/10/what-is-the-curious-canine-kitchen-hiding/
Barbecue, banh mi, fine dining and even more barbecue The start of 2015 means a customary look back over 2014 – and what a year it was. This seasonal retrospective is a little later than usual...
https://pickyglutton.com/2015/01/05/the-most-popular-london-restaurants-of-2014/
Disclosure: This cake was given free of charge. This offer was unsolicited and Cakes by Robin had no input into, or control over, the contents of this article. Delivery was arranged via a proxy ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2014/12/11/cock-olate-jizz-fudge-cake-from-cakes-by-robin/
Insane. It’s a tad cheap and easy to take pot-shots at a restaurant that’s now closed for the second instalment in my occasional series highlighting truly hateful restaurant websites. The we...
https://pickyglutton.com/2014/08/27/hateful-restaurant-website-of-the-week-the-wapping-project/
I really dislike the end-of-year roundups found on most websites. Ensuring that loyal readers have something to read over the quiet Christmas/New Year’s/Winterval period is admirable; cynically...
https://pickyglutton.com/2014/01/01/the-most-popular-london-restaurants-of-2013/
A new culture of beef eating? Note from The Picky Glutton: this is a guest post from The Flame Haired Squelchie, a trusted dining companion and also a wilting vegetarian oenophile who occasionall...
You lot are so predictable. 2012 is almost over, which also means it’s time for a rundown of the most popular restaurants of the past year. As with last year, I’m using a ridiculously unscien...
https://pickyglutton.com/2012/12/30/most-popular-2012-restaurants/
Fresh appearance, same opinionated restaurant reviews Welcome to the new Picky Glutton! It’s much the same as the old one, but with a revamped appearance. The previous design, which was stark a...
https://pickyglutton.com/2012/12/11/the-picky-glutton-revamped/
Baffling! Website design is an imprecise art and not a science, but restaurant websites in particular seem peculiarly prone to cack-handed design. My first pick in this intermittent series highli...
https://pickyglutton.com/2012/11/20/hateful-restaurant-website-of-the-week-dinings/
Bloggerc**tgate has gotten out of hand – both sides need to man up. If you keep track of the navel-gazing nature of the London restaurant scene, then you’ll no doubt have heard about the feud...
https://pickyglutton.com/2012/11/10/thoughts-on-the-hibiscus-blogger-feud/
New daily listings email from the folks at Shortlist If you’re a Londoner then you’re almost certainly familiar with Shortlist, the free weekly magazine often handed out (and discarded) outsi...
Not for the squeamish or vegetarians I don’t have much time for marketing stunts, but the Wesker and Son pop-up butchers at London’s Smithfield Market piqued my interest. Organised by the pub...
https://pickyglutton.com/2012/09/28/human-meat-weskerandson-butchers/
I’ll heading out to Taiwan later this year, so it was interesting to stumble across this news article about a Taiwanese restaurant blogger who has received a suspended prison sentence over a ne...
https://pickyglutton.com/2012/05/05/taiwanese-blogger-jailed-for-bad-restaurant-review/