Read all posts in the Soho category, including restaurant reviews for afternoon tea, lunch and brunch. Favourites are Ramsay’s famous Beef Wellington at Heddon Street Kitchen.
Pockets of fried-golden dumpling are filled with mince burger and nacho cheese, sealed closed and served with burger sauce. Although it’s a maddening offering, I’m not mad at them...
The first taste is the best – it’s of buttery pastry and moody mushroom, and a heart of delicate, juicy beef fillet.
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.
Try the afternoon tea with free-flowing Prosecco and unlimited sandwiches, cakes and scones for £37.50. This can be had from 1-4pm on Mondays through to Fridays.
The best of the mains is a 1.2kg T-bone steak, kissed with charcoal and sliced to reveal blushing insides, its Jurassic-proportioned bone overflowing a wrought iron pan.
Fragrant bursts of cinnamon and cardamom are used to great effect in an iced chai tea, full of festivity and aromatic warmth, with the vital tapioca balls.
If you’re in Richmond, or looking for a reason to go, Napoli on the Road is worth a stop. It’s family-friendly, consistent, and delivers a fantastic pizza.
London’s first cheese conveyer belt restaurant is in the Seven Dials market, just north of Covent Garden. The restaurant is called Pick and Cheese, which is a branch of The Cheese Bar.
