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https://pickyglutton.com/2022/07/11/the-best-and-worst-takeaway-pizza-london-bridge-southwark/
'What's an Italian steakhouse?!' The answer, of course, is a restaurant that serves steak cut from Italian cows. It's a revealing response - pasta, pizza and pesto cast such a shadow over the per...
https://pickyglutton.com/2020/04/06/macellaio-rc-union-street-review/
The Italian seafood restaurant that moved from Mayfair to Earl’s Court I had eaten my fill, but I was not satisfied. As the hapless staff flailed at even the most basic tasks, the feeling start...
https://pickyglutton.com/2019/06/24/pescheria-assunta-review/
This carnivorous threequel even serves vegan pizzas While the menus of some eateries seem to have been designed by committees and focus groups, the Temper group of restaurants has never like that...
https://pickyglutton.com/2018/07/23/temper-covent-garden-review-pizza/
The West End’s other Italian restaurants should be pistachio green with envy. You’d be forgiven for thinking that London’s recent spate of pasta-only Italian restaurants materalised out of ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2018/05/28/lina-stores-review-soho-pasta-restaurant/
The Manor transforms into an Italian It’s tough times for restaurants with household names and independents alike having to close up shop all across the country. Skyrocketing business rates, a ...
Farringdon Britalian is a mash-up in more ways than one Although there are Italian restaurants of every shape and variety in London for all budgets, it’s the expensive ones that I’ve always f...
All gelato is ice cream, but not all ice cream is gelato Update 24/8/2016 – added Badiani review, updated some links and fixed one location error Update 13/9/2016 – added Urban Ice review, up...
https://pickyglutton.com/2016/08/03/the-best-and-worst-gelato-in-london-italian-ice-cream/
Year round group dining that doesn’t cost the earth Organising a meal for a group of people can be a huge logistical pain. Finding somewhere large enough, takes bookings, is affordable, caters ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2016/03/23/homeslice-fitzrovia-review/
Italian food from Wild Honey and Arbutus The Barbican Centre may be a supreme example of Brutalist architecture and a fine place to take in a film or exhibition, but it’s been a barren wastelan...
https://pickyglutton.com/2016/03/07/osteria-barbican-review/
Cheap (ish) Cambridge Circus cuisine Marketing is a magical thing. It can transform the mundane into something much more wondrous and exotic. Vico, an Italian restaurant that has taken over wha...
Finally, a good restaurant in Islington Oldroyd might sound like a wizened, unwanted hanger-on in an unmentionable anatomical structure, but it’s actually a new restaurant in Islington from one...
A taste of northern Italy in Fitzrovia Italy has a bevy of regional cuisines but very few of them get any sort of exposure in London. For this reason alone In Parma deserves some credit for larg...
Bargain seafood in the West End – hallelujah! Update 12/3/15 – added extra tuna steak photo Seafood in London has a reputation for being expensive, but Rex and Mariano shows that it doesn�...
This review of a Rome restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Holidaying by oneself can be a lonely experience, but it also gives a great degree of freedom �...
This review of a Rome restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Londoners love to complain about The Big Smoke’s public transport and traffic congestion, but ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2015/01/26/antico-arco-review-rome/
This review of a Rome restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Restaurants named after their chefs, celebrity or otherwise, is pretty standard but a restaurant...
This review of a Rome restaurant is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Update 19/2/15 – clarified language detail regarding Quandoo Love them or loath them, online r...
This article about Rome is a break from The Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage Rome’s dining out scene may not be as multinational as London’s, but there is still an incredible dep...
https://pickyglutton.com/2015/01/12/eating-my-way-around-rome/
Sourdough pizzas, both take-away and eat-in The trend for restaurants not taking reservations often means that you’ll have to queue. That’s definitely the case with Franco Manca, the immense...
https://pickyglutton.com/2014/03/31/franco-manca-tottenham-court-road-review/
Independent Tottenham Court Road Italian There’s a small clutch of Italian restaurants on the western side of Tottenham Court Road in Fitzrovia, but most are either yawn-inducing chains or drea...
Soho’s cheeky upstart pizza parlour Soho isn’t short of pizza restaurants, but Pizza Pilgrims has a leg up on its competition. Having started out as a street market van that’s still tourin...
https://pickyglutton.com/2013/09/30/pizza-pilgrims-dean-street-review-soho/
A cosy North London neighbourhood restaurant Until recently I’d largely become bored of Italian restaurants in London. They were either underwhelming, needlessly fussy or old-fashioned and just...
Is bigger always better? Update 12/04/2015 – new contact phone number added There are more pizza restaurants in London then there are slow-moving convoys of exchange students, so any new pizza ...
https://pickyglutton.com/2013/07/22/homeslice-review-20in-pizzas/