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Our latest bi-weekly round-up of the latest London restaurant reviews from the top UK critics as they are added to our reviewssection. This week Matthew Norman is less admiring of Roganic, Pizza East gets a rave from AA Gill and Zoe Williams likes but not loves Galoupet.
Roganic - overall score 7.5/10 (down 0.5)
Matthew Norman - Telegraph
Choice quote: "While “heritage potatoes in onion ashes, lovage and wood sorrel” arrived on a plate that would have been visible from space, the spuds themselves invited the traditional battle-cry of the disappointed trencherman: “Hubble telescope to table three!” "
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Galoupet - overall score 7.5/10 (no change)
Fay Maschler - Evening Standard
Choice quote: "Based on the dishes we did try, I can recommend starting with soup, particularly the ribs and kelp soup -helpfully pictured on the menu - and the seaweed and egg broth."
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Guy Dimond - Time Out
Choice quote: "...such adventures are preferable to the boring, suburban set menus (crispy duck, kung po chicken et al) - so go on, try something you've not had before."
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Jay Rayner - Observer
Estimated score
Choice quote: "The mains – a rib-eye with Café de Paris butter, duck confit with chorizo and chickpeas, sole with broad beans, anchovies and capers – have a familiar urban-rustic feel."
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Veronica Simpson - Time Out
Choice quote: "It's a good sign if you're waiting for a pal in a restaurant for half an hour, with only the menu to read - and the more you look at it, the more interesting it gets."
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Giles Coren - Times
Choice quote: "But that was as nothing compared to the main kitchen itself, where the flouting of basic standards was so surprising that I became quite horrified and have perhaps ended up being less kind to the cooking than I might otherwise have been."
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Soseki - overall score 6/10 (down 0.5)
AA Gill - Sunday Times
Choice quote: "Its ethical intentions and pescatorial concerns, and its quiet beauty in the centre of all this greedy ugliness, are laudable and go some way to mitigating the fact that, though the food is well made and prettily presented and smilingly served, it isn’t quite good enough."
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Suda - overall score 6/10 (new entry)
Guy Dimond - Time Out
Choice quote: "But there's the nub: Suda's not in Thailand, it's in the shopping and tourist hub of Covent Garden. And most of this catchment area would rather not risk the hair-raising tuk-tuk ride that is real Thai street food."
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Quince - overall score 5/10 (down 0.5)
Marina O'Loughlin - Metro
Choice quote: "In the newly heroic Turkish ocakbasis of Dalston, you can feast on this kind of thing for about £10 a head – if you’re insanely greedy. Here, we pay £172 with no wine, and three cocktails, each appearing with a £3 supplement that our waiter seems unable to explain."
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ALSO REVIEWED
Tsuru Sushi 10 Queen Street, EC1
Marina O Loughlin - Metro: " Factor in a commitment to sustainability and this is a terrific addition to an underserved neighbourhood. I’m going back at lunchtime for the best-selling katsu sandwich."
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The Lyttleton The Stafford Hotel, 16-18 St James’s Place, SW1
Fay Maschler - Evening Standard: "The refreshingly forthright food, the agreeable service led by an excellent chap from Blackburn - the chef is also from Lancashire and the sous-chef from North Yorkshire - and the hidden treasure aspect of the location makes me want to explore less extravagant routes into The Stafford."
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The Dogfather North Cross Road Market, North Cross Road, SE22
Lucy McKay - Evening Standard: "Every ingredient was cooked to perfection, the sausage juicy and flavoursome, the chorizo hot, thick and melt-in-the-mouth. Even the mozzarella, though odd paired with sausage, worked well."
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The Prince of Wales 138 Upper Richmond Road, London SW15 2SP
Zoe Williams - Telegraph: "It wasn't until we had our main courses that it became clear how ambitious the cooking is, and how far it exceeds what you'd expect from the back of a pub, never mind that it was just an ordinary week night."
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