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Our latest fortnightly round-up of the latest London restaurant reviews from the top UK critics as they are added to our reviews section. This week Elliot's gets off to a strong start, AA Gill loves Made in Camden and Medlar, Roganic and Galoupet all continue to do well.
AA Gill - Sunday Times
Choice quote: "Well, the Roundhouse is an exceedingly good caff with a bit of lost space attached. Everything the performance space upstairs aspires to is being realised by the understudy in the cafeteria. This is where the real show is."
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Guy Dimond - Time Out
Choice quote: "They make much of buying their produce from Borough Market - why wouldn't you, if it surrounds you - but it's the warm atmosphere and enticing menu that really makes it special."
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Fay Maschler - Evening Standard
Choice quote: "...the daily changing menu has an air of the informed improvisational - making the best of what is on hand and coming up with enticing combos..."
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Medlar - overall score 8/10 (no change)
Matthew Norman - Telegraph
Choice quote: "The service, without being remotely intrusive, is impeccable, the cutest touch being how the sommelier decants every wine, even the comparative cheapos, from an unusually well balanced list."
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Scott's - overall score 8/10 (no change)
Jay Rayner - London Magazine
Estimated score
Choice quote: "Is the food good? Well, of course. In some areas it’s better than good. You have to love a smart restaurant which provides a pile of pork scratchings as a bar snack, alongside the almonds and olives."
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Roganic - overall score 7.5/10 (no change)
John Lanchester - Guardian
Estimated score
Choice quote: "It made me keen to visit Rogan's headquarters in Cumbria, which I suspect is part of the point."
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Marina O'Loughlin - Metro
Choice quote: "Of course it’s expensive. But if the old ‘fayn dayning’ floats your boat, this – contemporary, light, assured, revelatory – is as good as it gets in London right now."
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Galoupet - overall score 7.5/10 (no change)
John Walsh - Independent
Choice quote: "Everything is meticulously well thought out, cooked a point, and dished up with care. It's hard to find fault with any of it, even if the main courses don't quite raise you to heights of ecstasy."
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Massimo - overall score 6.5/10 (no change)
Zoe Williams - Telegraph
Choice quote: "...I had the grilled octopus with avocado and potato, with a spicy lemon sauce and three squidges of aioli. I was immediately exclaiming – blaspheming – about how good it was."
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Elephant - overall score 6.5/10 (down 0.5)
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Sheesh Ye Olde King's Head, Chigwell, Essex
Jay Rayner - Observer: "The main courses are equally solid, down to the side dishes of buttery rice with vermicelli noodles, the pickled red cabbage and the raw-onion salad sprinkled with sumac, the ubiquitous citrus-flavoured spice."
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Four O Nine 409 Clapham Road, SW9
Amol Rajan - Independent: "Moving on to mains, my roast cod with mussels, fresh brown crab, orange, saffron, new potatoes and samphire is magnificent. A vast array of flavours clamour for attention on each plate, but it tends to work."
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Spud 26 New Row, WC2
Victoria Stewart - Evening Standard: "The first was excellent. Plump chickpeas, kidney and butterbeans bursting with a full, smoky flavour rested alongside a feisty cheddar in a thick, bubbling smoky sauce."
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Ombra 1 Vyner Street, E2
Richard Godwin - Evening Standard: "...what Ombra gets right - hospitality, in a word - it gets so right, you would rather be here than any of the modish, management-consulted places out west."
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Potli 319-321 King Street W6
Fay Maschler - Evening Standard: "A Hyderabad lamb biriyani, although not seemingly cooked by the dum method, was good, as were tarka dal, saag paneer and pindi channa, all rich with butter or ghee."
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Hurwundeki 299 Cambridge Heath Road.
Marina O'Loughlin - Metro: "Cakes are a real draw – insanely rich chocolate brownies, frangipane and pear tart, carrot cake muffins – as is seasonally changing coffee from Square Mile Coffee."
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