Thai Taste Red Curry in a Hurry
Thai Taste Red Curry comes in a packet. ‘No!’, I hear my trusting and loyal reader cry! ‘This pre-prepared dinner-helper can surely not be promoted...
Thai Taste Green Curry and a competition
Thai cuisine is popular all over the world and it’s easy to see why. It is a tempting and vibrant blend of spicy, salty, bitter,...
Rosa’s Thai Café – The Vegetarian Cookbook
Rosa’s was the original name of an empty caff which Saiphin Moore and her husband turned into their first restaurant. Saiphin is Thai and has...
Bangkok Thai: The Busaba Cookbook
Busaba presents modern Bangkok dining, with a dozen or so restaurants around Greater London. Having opened its first restaurant on London’s Wardour Street in 1999,...
Salaam Namaste – Indian restaurant review
Indian food has long been a favourite in the UK. Chicken Tikka Masala is said to be our national dish! But these days Indian restaurants...
Wagamama Vegan Curry and Summer Salad – restaurant review
Richmond is a lovely spot in the summer, but enticing lunch and dinner choices can be thin on the ground. One wants something delicious, reasonably...
Cinnamon Kitchen at Battersea Power Station – restaurant review
Battersea Power Station has a profile instantly recognisable, to Londoners at least. It was a coal-fired power station, and it was originally two separate buildings,...
Indian Accent – Mayfair London – restaurant review
So, what does one do when a long-loved favourite restaurant closes? Sit in a darkened room in a state of sad dismay? Or, perhaps one...
Creamy Curried Cauliflower Soup
Curry powder and almond milk conspire here with the cauliflower to produce a full-flavored blended soup that’s creamy on the palate without including any actual...
Brick Lane – travel review
Flavours of India and Beyond We Londoners are a cosmopolitan bunch. That isn’t a recent phenomenon: our country has been built, over the centuries, on...
Thai Square Fulham – restaurant review
Yes, dear reader, this is a chain restaurant and I make no apologies for reviewing a Thai Square. Why do chains become chains? Because they...
Sea Spice in Aldeburgh – restaurant review
I have written a book about Indian restaurants but they were all in London. I review Indian restaurants almost every month but I have never...
Jamavar comes to Mayfair – restaurant review
The original Jamavar opened in 2001 at The Leela Palace Bengaluru in India and was named among the World’s Top 10 Power Dining Spots by...
Lotus, London – Fine Indian Dining – restaurant review
The Charing Cross Road near Leicester Square Underground Station has not been famed for quality Indian restaurants. I confess I had never heard of Lotus...
Sindhu by Atul Kochhar, with Head Chef Gopal Krishnan – restaurant review
I first met Chef Gopalakrishnan when he was working at a Michelin-starred restaurant in London; a smart and charismatic young man who is known by...
Darbaar by Abdul Yaseen, Broadgate – restaurant review
Here is a man to follow and a restaurant to watch. This new venture, Darbaar with Abdul Yaseen at the helm, has pedigree and polish...
Gymkhana London – restaurant review
Gymkhana is an Indian word which originally referred to a meeting place. These days it tends to be an equestrian day event put on by...
Gaylord in Mortimer Street – restaurant review
This is one restaurant that I have visited and wondered why I had not done so long before now. Gaylord Restaurant was established in 1966...
Thai Green Curry
From BBC Food Jo Pratt blends authentic ingredients into a quick homemade paste that forms the base of her Thai green chicken curry. ...
Carom Indian Restaurant, Soho – review
Carom the restaurant: named after the Indian spice. Carom seeds have a taste similar to thyme and are popular in Indian savoury snacks, so even...