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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 sees Hawksmoor Guildhall storm to the top of the chart, while fellow meat-lovers den Meat Liquor is not far behind.
Stephen Farmer - View London
Choice quote: "Improving on what many saw as the best steakhouses in London was never going to be particularly easy but it seems the guys at Hawksmoor are honing their craft."
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Anon - City AM
Choice quote: "We began with belly ribs from Plum Pudding’s excellent pigs: four melting wedges of carnivorous seduction, so moreish I nearly cried when they were gone."
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Guy Dimond - Time Out
Choice quote: "We were so impressed, we went back for breakfast (not the next day, we hasten to add - a Hawksmoor meal is very filling). Whether you're a pre-lunch powerbroker or just want a refined spot for a decadent morning meal, this is a perfect spot."
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Fay Maschler - Evening Standard
Choice quote: "To compare (the Dead Hippie burger) to a Big Mac would be heresy. Sloppy, greasy, pungent, sharp as sarcasm, sweet as kisses, it left Ed gobsmacked. The chilli cheeseburger was another perfect synthesis."
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Kelly Hussy - View London
Choice quote: "If you really want to go for broke then the Dead Hippy Burger WILL break you: this is a burger not to be trifled with... damn this beast of a burger is delicious."
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Euan Ferguson - Time Out
Choice quote: "We tried two varieties of burger and found them faultless - sloppy, meaty, tangy, cheesy, spicy, perfect. It takes something like this to remind you how amazing the world's most bastardised dish can be when it's done with dedication."
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Guy Dimond - Time Out
Choice quote: "The combinations are creative, without straying into 'sashimi with hoi sin sauce' territory. The Gloucester Old Spot pizza included morsels of crackling, quince purée, slivers of raw apple, stinky Stilton and watercress; it worked."
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Matthew Norman - Telegraph
Choice quote: "There cannot be many more challenging locations in which to persuade shoppers on a greyly autumnal London lunchtime that they have been transported to a sun-dappled Andalusian evening. Through the Tardis-like miracle of good food, Allibhoy just about pulls it off."
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Amol Rajan - Independent
Choice quote: "Given the gloom emanating from those temples of commerce barely a mile off, I find all this rather thrilling, and can think of very few openings in London this year that deserve higher recommendation."
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AA Gill - Sunday Times
Choice quote: "...it would be fair to say that if you’d like to encourage some Italians and help make a nice local restaurant for the multi-millionaire bankers of Kensington, you should go along to Casa Batavia, and perhaps tell them how real Italians make pasta, up at Locatelli’s."
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Marina O'Loughlin - Metro
Choice quote: "...at the time, it’s everything I want in a meal, making me feel cosseted and calmed and carbed up to the eyeballs."
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Guy Dimond - Time Out
Choice quote: "If you think 'Welsh charcuterie' sounds like it belongs with Dutch wine or Greek sushi as 'things to avoid', you'd best try a platter of the Trealy Farm charcuterie, from Monmouthshire - the air-dried hams, game salami and lomo (pork loin) match or better anything coming out of Italy or Spain."
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Aurelia - overall score 6/10 (new entry)
Guy Dimond - Time Out
Choice quote: "...we felt a little disappointed with Aurelia, which is takes the far more conservative and risk-averse approach of far too many Mayfair restaurants; it's more in the mould of its sister restaurant, La Petit Maison."
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Fay Maschler - Evening Standard
Choice quote: "While I thought Amy's Dover sole with clams, tomato and capers was truly delectable it just didn't sit well with Tim's pork or my veal. The impact of three skilfully cooked main ingredients was diminished by muddling them up."
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Fornata - overall score 6/10 (no change)
Giles Coren - Times
Choice quote: "As I order my dishes, the waitress says nothing, and in pauses where I am mulling the options, she taps her foot. Actually taps it. For she has much better things to do, and I am wheat-eating European scum."
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ALSO REVIEWED
Fernandez & Wells at Somerset House
David Sexton - Evening Standard: "...overall the design leaves the feel of these beautifully proportioned neoclassical rooms intact, making this one of the most elegant places in London to eat and drink, comparable to, say, the Kensington Palace Orangerie, only with much better food."
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Casa Morita Brixton
Marina O'Loughlin - Metro: "...there’s authenticity and stickily cheesy quesadillas and tacos made from excellent white corn tortillas; smooth guacamole; fragrant, meaty chorizo; prawns honking with garlic."
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