Vegetables finally get the barbecue treatment... or do they? Continue reading →
An oasis of calm and good taste makes this Georgian mansion a fine choice for outdoor feasting. Continue reading →
Nothing builds up an appetite like walking 140km across Wales. Continue reading →
https://pickyglutton.com/2021/11/08/eating-my-way-across-the-brecon-beacons/
The best thing about Flat Iron Square isn’t the street food stalls I’m sometimes asked how I pick which restaurants to review. The number and range of possible criteria is large and diverse, ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2020/03/02/lupins-review-southwark/
Big issues on small plates from a Salt Yard alumnus Volta do Mar is an unusual restaurant in more ways than one. Founded by an alumnus from the storied yet troubled Salt Yard group, Volta do Mar�...
https://pickyglutton.com/2020/01/27/volta-do-mar-review-portuguese/
This crab dinner has legs, but it’s running before it can walk The potential of Instagram to power and propel businesses from mere photographic ideas into actual money making businesses is well...
https://pickyglutton.com/2020/01/20/trap-kitchen-review-balham-instagram/
London Bridge sweet and savoury pancakes I’ve always suspected that the food of our childhoods casts a long shadow, forming and influencing our tastes long after we’ve graduated into adult li...
https://pickyglutton.com/2019/12/30/where-the-pancakes-are-review-flat-iron-square/
To Eat Like A Girl is an aspiration, not a slight Update 27/10/2019 – added detail that this is a pop-up at Homeboy I’ve been writing about London restaurants for close to a decade now, so ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2019/10/21/homeboy-bar-review-irish-islington/
Small plates don’t always lead to big rewards Update 31/01/2022 – this restaurant has now closed There’s no shortage of places in London to graze on small tapas-sized plates while guzzling ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2019/07/29/flor-review-lyles-borough-market/
Max’s doesn’t serve BLTs, tuna mayo or Ploughman’s – it’s far more creative than that Sandwiches are everywhere, yet we rarely give them the proper due care and attention that they dese...
https://pickyglutton.com/2019/03/04/maxs-sandwich-shop-review-finsbury-park/
Islington brisket vs Covent Garden celeriac Traditional Turkish kebabs are nigh-on perfect. Whether you prefer shish, kofte, doner, iskender or beyti, the smoke and sizzle of a charcoal mangal is...
https://pickyglutton.com/2018/10/29/bababoom-vs-maison-bab-kebabs-head-to-head-review/
Grouse sausage and a mussels flatbread in Hoxton Update 08/5/2021 – this restaurant has now closed ‘We’ll need the table back in two hours’ is a familiar phrase for restaurant-going Londo...
https://pickyglutton.com/2018/10/22/two-lights-review-clove-club-sequel/
… but is coming up short. Names can be many things. A descriptive label, a pigeonhole, a statement of intent. It’s therefore striking that Islington restaurant 1251 has such an easily forgott...
This review of a Bath restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London coverage While it’s highly unlikely I’ll ever become a vegetarian, I have a great deal of sympathy for peop...
https://pickyglutton.com/2018/07/09/henrys-review-vegetarian-bath/
This restaurant is my new Vice It takes balls to open a restaurant like St Leonards. Fulsome, dangly ones that sway and jiggle with every sigh and cough. It’s either that or the proprietors’ ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2018/06/25/st-leonards-review-shoreditch/
The P Franco sequel hiding near London Fields Even if the UK wasn’t a nation soaked in booze from head to toe, eating out in London as a teetotaller isn’t always easy. While plenty of people ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2018/06/04/bright-review-bethnal-green/
Upstairs, Downstairs and where the two meet There are restaurants where it’s clear that compromises have been made. Whether due to money, time or stress, or some unfortunate combination of all ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2018/04/30/hide-review-above-dabbous-ground/
It’s tempting to dismiss Brat out of hand before you’ve even laid eyes on the place. It’s situated above the newly relocated Smoking Goat in Shoreditch, which makes it sound like the hospit...
Picklery not gimmickry. The sweet life. Keep it sweet. A sweet deal. Sweet as honey. Sweet as pie. Our understandable preoccupation with sweetness and sweet foods is so deeply ingrained that the ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2018/01/15/little-duck-the-picklery-review/
Raffish Clerkenwell Mexican sprouts second branch in Soho Update: 8/02/2018 – added new opening hours A great many things flow through my mind when I’m being ignored at a restaurant, once I b...
https://pickyglutton.com/2017/11/13/breddos-tacos-soho-review/
Finsbury Park doesn’t need more battered fried food I have a confession to make. It’s a deeply unpopular, long-held opinion that will not endear me to many of you. It’ll be even more contro...
Plus a beast of a bacon sandwich Salvaging, reusing and repurposing old fittings and furnishings to adorn new restaurants is nothing new; it’s been an ongoing trend in the English-speaking worl...
https://pickyglutton.com/2017/10/23/coal-rooms-peckham-review/
It’s both different from the original Soho Temper and reassuringly similar too Update 25/8/2018 – this restaurant’s menu has changed drastically. It now closely resembles the one at the or...
The Pidgin sequel takes flight but doesn’t quite soar Update 10/04/2019 – this restaurant is now closed I once wrote that it’s rare for a restaurant to relocate inwards from the suburbs to ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2017/08/21/magpie-review-modernist-food-served-dim-sum-style-in-mayfair/
Live music and a celebrity chef amount to a hill of beans Updated 23/11/20 – this restaurant has now closed I try to avoid mentioning celebrity chefs when writing about their restaurants. Apart...
https://pickyglutton.com/2017/06/19/red-rooster-at-the-curtain-review-shoreditch/