32 Great Queen St

Covent Garden
This is a great little restaurant run by the Hope and Anchor bods.

It is a New British restaurant, borrowing a certain simple chicness from the French rustic cafe in it's decor of thick bare wooden tables and short Duralex tumblers for its wine. The walls are blood red, the waiters are knowledgeable and friendly. All of it designed to be an appealing background to the real star, the food.

Bam-Bou

Fitzrovia
For my special birthday dinner celebration with mr UF, I got taken to Bam-Bou - gorgeous french-Vietnamese restaurant housed in a beautiful old colonial style house in Fitzrovia (top of Charlotte street).

Ooof, what a place!

Canteen

Central London
Canteen is clearly trying to establish itself in the British institutional tradition - if this is the kind of modern day institution that forms the new British tradition then we can all be proud to have heaved ourselves into the 21st century with dignity and style...

Imperial China

China Town
I once remarked to a Chinese colleague of mine, “is there such a thing as a good quality Chinese restaurant in London’s China Town™?” To my mild surprise I was told that such things did exist...

Leon Restaurant

The Strand
the Leon Restaurants are the foodie’s own fast food restaurant - seasonal, free range, nurtitious and delicious with narry a chip or crisp in sight. They are run with love and care which comes out beautifully in their food, probably about the same price as Pret but much, much nicer.

Masters Super Fish

Waterloo
Often, it is in amongst the offices and housing estates of central London where many a fine eating establishment can be un-turfed by an adventurous wonderer. It is how I came across this restaurant, bustling in the nether regions of London’s Waterloo Road. Waterloo Road is not an area where the hungry would go in search of good nourishment, however, two hundred yards beyond the Old Vic Theatre lies Masters Super Fish - purveyors of some of the finest fish and chips imaginable.