Hermano Primero - Dos Hermanos

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What did he think? Improving on its already very good Mayfair sibling.
Choice quote: " If Goodman can keep the standard up – and there's no reason to think they can't – then this will be my go-to place when I want that classic last meal."
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Richard Vines - Bloomberg

What did he think? Great mains and sides, and a buzzing atmosphere gets Richard's top score.
Choice quote: "Great steaks, cooked well and served with a smile is a more difficult formula than it sounds. Goodman makes it look easy."
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Guy Dimond - Time Out

What did he think? It's a "playful, fun and inventive" restaurant with good food, service and a great buzz.
Choice quote: "There are so many alluring antipasti and 'small eats' it's a wonder anyone ever makes it to the secondi piatti."
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Allan Jenkins - Observer

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What did he think? A perfect lunch by one of the greatest chefs in the country.
Choice quote: "My daube de joue de boeuf arrives. Another Koffmann classic, the meltingly soft, silken beef cheek falls apart with a fork (they also supply a spoon to sup the rich, deep gravy)."
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Matthew Fort - Guardian

What did he think? Classic brasserie food as cooked by a master.
Choice quote: "The secret of Koffmann's cooking is flavour, flavour and yet more flavour. Great breakers of flavour roll like thunder round your mouth."
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Matthew Norman - Telegraph

What did he think? A disappointment, given the pedigree of the chef.
Choice quote: "My boudin noir with sautéed apples was better, the black pudding unusually delicate and the apple pleasingly caramelised, though nothing to suggest the work of a champion on the gastronomic podium spraying champagne as he reworks the bistro classics."
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Marina O'Loughlin - Metro

What did she think? Great view - although other cities top it - and OK food, but without much of an identity.
Choice quote: "It's pretty good, though, giving the lie to the old saw that a restaurant with a view automatically means a duff dinner."
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AA Gill - Sunday Times

What did he think? The food was too showy and too little, took too long and he hated the area of town.
Choice quote: "Food this slight and mimsy has to be intense, surprising and utterly clear and self-confident. What we got was muddy, haphazard, careless, clumsy and boastful."
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Richard Vines - Bloomberg

What did he think? The feel of a buzzy neighbourhood restaurant matched with excellent food and a good, if short, wine list.
Choice quote: "The hits include duck-and-porcini meatball; cured pork shoulder and pickled-pepper pizzetta (my favorite); Cotechino and pickled radicchio bruschetta; pea, mint, fennel and ricotta salad; panna cotta, blackberries, biscotti; and lemon and strawberry sgroppino, which is like a smoothie with Prosecco."
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Fay Maschler - Evening Standard

What did she think? Another good and affordable addition to "quirky" Soho.
Choice quote: "Polpo and Polpetto — and presumably in the autumn Spuntino — represent a new way of eating exemplified by the recent opening of a bunch of small, quirky, independent businesses in Soho."
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Guy Dimond - Time Out

What did he think? Incredibly busy but the food, while good, needs to try harder.
Choice quote: "...the food should also live up to the promise, and our meal was patchier than we'd have hoped for."
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Marina O'Loughlin - Metro

What did she think? An average restaurant saved by its wine list.
Choice quote: "If I had to sum the place up in Hollywood pitch brevity, I’d say it’s pleasantly ordinary."
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Fay Maschler - Evening Standard

What did she think? Good example of Malaysian cuisine, at decent prices.
Choice quote: "Culinary influences have been woven skillfully and seductively; a particularly well-made Penang char kway teow (flat rice noodle assembly), as you find at Sedap — the name means “delicious” — is one of those dishes I might give as an answer to “What would you like for your last meal on earth?” "
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Giles Coren - Times

What did he think? Good steak, cocktails and staff, shellfish needs improvement.
Choice quote: "(The owner) Downey generally gets these things right, and this is 80 per cent of the way to excellent."
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Zoe Strimpel - City AM

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What did she think? Good cocktails and OK steak, but you could have better elsewhere.
Choice quote: "On balance, Redhook is a good thing – the staff are lovely and the cocktails are great. Throw in some kick-arse chips and perhaps the less expensive ribeye (£13) and I see no reason why you shouldn’t have a good time."
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What did he think? Decent food, good service, best for an older crowd.
Choice quote: "The service was very good, the wine list not bad (with plenty by the glass), the range of starters, salads, pastas and mains a pretty gentle canter through the post-Wolseley all-day eating standards we’ve come to know and, well, expect..."
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Guy Dimond - Time Out

What did he think? Good Japanese food let down by bad service.
Choice quote: "Service on this visit was a shambles though. Our oriental waitress knew barely a word of menu Japanese, and soy sauce - the essential and obvious condiment - was not brought (we had to ask for it)."
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Zoe Williams - Telegraph

What did she think? "Unbreachable" formal atmosphere with food that is good, but not very exciting.
Choice quote: "Yup, that's lamb, that's tongue, that's artichoke, that is what all those things taste of, but where's the drama?"
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