John Lanchester - Guardian

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Choice quote: "Main courses were excellent. The pork chop with sauce Robert was the best pork chop I've ever had: cooked sous-vide and finished on the grill, it was succulent, and the sauce, a demi-glace spiked with mustard, was amazing."
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Chris Pople - Cheese & Biscuits

Choice quote: "So yes, Spuntino is very good indeed. A winning match of unique and tasty comfort food served with a smile in stunning surroundings..."
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Guy Dimond - Time Out

Choice quote: "We loved the 'peanut butter and jelly sandwich'... Two layers of peanut-flavoured ice-cream, had a smear of top-quality red berry compote between them, all garnished with ground peanuts. Very clever - it also tasted divine."
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Laura Richards - View London

Choice quote: "The reasonable prices match this attitude and its quirky menu choices are bold, delicious and sure to cause a stir in Soho."
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Marina O'Loughlin - Metro

Choice quote: "...each mouthful offers a riff of flavours: perfectly fresh salmon spiked with that vivid ponzu jelly; or spot prawn with an impossibly thin sliver of foie gras blowtorch-melted on top: smoky and luxurious."
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Zoe Williams - Telegraph

Choice quote: "Asian-style pork belly was brilliant. It was a huge great slab, I guess to make sure people got enough, even those who wouldn't eat the fat. I will eat the fat – that's the main reason I order it – so of course I ate way too much."
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Tracey MacLeod - Independent

Choice quote: "All the dishes look beautiful, for as long as they last; as with Ottolenghi, this is chick food – big flavours, few carbs."
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John Lanchester - Guardian

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Choice quote: "...Opera Tavern is good news in an area that has long been short on restaurants appealing to anyone other than theatregoers on the verge of hypoglycaemia."
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Timothy Barber - City AM

Choice quote: "Among the stand-outs were the deeply flavoursome Iberico ham carved in strips from the aforementioned leg; beef onglet served pink and bubbling hot from the grill on a skewer with porcini mushroom and winter truffle; and delightful mini burgers of grilled pork and foie gras..."
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Richard Vines - Bloomberg

Choice quote: "Among the mains, I’m a fan of the steamed steak and onion pudding with onion sauce, which is rich and satisfying and costs 18 pounds, and the braised English hare with roasted saddle and buttered spaetzle."
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Giles Coren - Times

Choice quote: "Esther had grilled skewers of octopus, lovely and tender. Bread and butter were excellent, particularly the butter, proper salty stuff from before Lurpak got its claws into us."
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Marina O'Loughlin - Metro

Choice quote: "It sits among the expensive frocks on the second floor of that most civilised of department stores, Fenwick, its creamy, pale palette zhuzhed up with splashes of Sobranie cigarette colour and a sensual, silvery curved bar – just dreamy, sweetie."
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Marina O'Loughlin - Metro

Choice quote: "With its invisible hierarchy, cod-French on the menu and prices designed to keep out the hoi polloi, it’s a gorgeous anachronism, just like equally, inexplicably sleb-magnet C London (formerly Cipriani) and San Lorenzo."
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AA Gill - Sunday Times

Choice quote: "The chef said the calves’ liver was the finest in the country, and it may well have been. It could possibly have been the greatest calves’ liver in the universe. In the history of bovine offal, however, rather like a small man with a tall model, he didn’t really show it off to its best advantage."
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