Read all posts in the Restaurant Reviews category, including reviews for afternoon tea and brunch. Favourites are Baozi Inn and Gordon Ramsay's places.
Trendy Fulham has a new-ish Japanese restaurant that looks properly the business and might rival Roka for style. It’s all dark wood and vintage glass, clever lighting and cream, feathered design touches. It’s both gorgeous and understated, and really very elegant.
The concrete seems unblemished, like someone took a look at the bodies and decided they would be better at the bottom of the river - Tom’s Kitchen is all blond wood and no hot blood.
Gone are the traditional sandwiches, replaced instead with sliders of pulled oxtail, flatbreads with welsh rarebit, and butter-fried toast with sautéed mushroom and cheese.
The NY inspired brunch starts at a deli counter of cured meats, cheeses, walnut breads and antipasti to desserts of tiramisu, cheesecake, pecan pie and waffles.
Spring lamb chops, charred and glossy on the outside and rosy as a sunrise on the inside, are served on a tomato miso reduction with blackened courgette and pickled Japanese rose.
Buttery, eggy french toast under a cloud of Chantilly cream from Laduree, Covent Garden...
Finally, we come to desserts. They all sound lovely, but the winner has to be the sticky toffee pudding, all syrupy and rich, served hot and with a lush vanilla ice cream. Mmm.
The burgers are petite and proper, appropriate against the flowery crockery and country-chic interior. Barely fist-sized, the waist conscious will have no guilt at indulging here.
To celebrate the essence of Jazz at the Sheraton Grand, established artists from London’s world-class music scene will provide the musical accompaniment to the afternoon tea...
