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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 reviewssection. This week we see new reviews for Thirty Six, 10 Cases and Meatballs, while Wolfgang Puck's Cut gets off to a good start.
Hedone - overall score 8/10 (down 1)
Tony Turnbull - Times
Estimated score
Choice quote: "I suspect that, like a lot of lawyers, he has a forensic eye for detail, drilling down to the purity of flavour in his ingredients, but by the end I felt we were paying for him to indulge his passions and not our own."
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Marina O'Loughlin - Metro
Choice quote: "Hedone is from the Greek word for pleasure and for your food nerd, this is close to Nirvana. Regular punters? I’m not so sure."
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Timothy Barber - City AM
Choice quote: "Mendham can certainly cook. His style isn’t revolutionary, but it offers intrigue and imagination. Most importantly, he knows all about flavour and texture combinations, and he’ll try out interesting things with them."
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Andy Lynes - Metro
Choice quote: "Pea and potato samosas have a pleasing kick and come with a deliciously spicy kabli chana chickpea curry. The spiced lamb chapli kebab served in a bun is in with a shout for the title of London’s best burger."
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John Walsh - Independent
Choice quote: "For a pair of carnivores, it was all sheer ambrosia. And the French fries were hand-cut with the skin partially on, perfectly herbed and salted. And the Napa Valley Duckthorn cab-sauv was a complex, savoury accompaniment."
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Tania Ballantine - Time Out
Choice quote: "Belying the experience thus far, the food was exceptional. Steakhouse classics were given the luxury treatment, with high-end ingredients and thoughtful presentation."
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Fay Maschler - Evening Standard
Choice quote: "Advertising agencies used to say "you sell the sizzle not the sausage" and there was something man-in-a-pinny-fearlessly-confronting-elemental-fire lacking in these otherwise tender and reasonably flavourful slabs of meat."
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Joe's - overall score 7/10 (no change)
Lisa Markwell - Independent
Choice quote: "Joe's deserves to be for ladies who breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is delicious, pretty to look at and satisfying without heft."
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David Sexton - Evening Standard
Choice quote: "...honest, unostentatious and a good place to meet in Covent Garden - and there's a private dining room downstairs for which there is no extra charge."
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Euan Ferguson - Time Out
Choice quote: "Such a singular concept feels quite unusual, but then probably so did the first burger restaurant in London. Maybe the city will embrace these balls given time."
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Victoria Stewart - Evening Standard
Choice quote: "Come for the pork balls and the excellent coffee and you won't be wasting your time."
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Massimo - overall score 6/10 (down 0.5)
Andy Lynes - Metro
Choice quote: "But in London at least, Riccioli takes what can be the profound simplicity of Italian cuisine a step too far, stripping back dishes until they tip over into arid banality."
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ALSO REVIEWED
Lyttleton Stafford Hotel, St James
Jay Rayner - Observer: "There is no point to a suckling-pig dish without a bit of skin. Then again it's a fitting metaphor for the Stafford's restaurant, because there's little point to that either."
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