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                Tell me where is fancy bred/Or in the heart or in the head
                  - William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice

                                        O tell me where is fancy bread, at Rourke's the baker's it is said
                                          - James Joyce, Ulysses

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 - The Best of 2011
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Chefs @CriticalCouple now featured in the Wall Street Journal: read the article here

The Sunday Times Food List: Reviews of the Top 10 Restaurants

Link to London Tastin blog: check out this map showing all of the UK's Michelin starred restaurants: Michelin Map 

San Pellegrino - The World's Best Restaurants

El Bulli

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Noma

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The Fat Duck

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Can Roca

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Francescana

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Restaurant Index, Drinks & Places

Chef Dinners @CriticalCouple

Alyn Williams

Ben Spalding

Brett Graham

Bruno Loubet

Jason Atherton

Johnnie Mountain

Russell Brown & Mat Follas

Simon Hulstone
3 Michelin stars London

Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
The Fat Duck
The Waterside Inn

The French Laundry at Harrods

3 Star Non UK

El Bulli (Spain)
El Celler de Can Roca (Spain)

Osteria Francescana (Italy)
2 Michelin stars London

Hibiscus
L'Atelier (review 1 and review 2)
Le Gavroche
Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley (review 1, 2 and 3)
The Ledbury
The Square

2 Star Non London

Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles (Scotland)
Gidleigh Park (Devon)
Le Champignon Sauvage (Cheltenham)
Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons (Oxford)
Le Manoir at Christmas
Le Manoir: Christmas Eve and Boxing Day
Noma
Restaurant Nathan Outlaw (Cornwall)
Restaurant Sat Bains (Nottingham)
The Hand & Flowers (Marlow)
Whatley Manor (Wiltshire)


1 Michelin Star London

Apsleys
Arbutus
Chez Bruce
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
Galvin at Windows
Galvin La Chapelle
Galvin La Chapelle (revisited)

Gauthier Soho
L'Autre Pied
La Trompette
Locanda Locatelli
Murano
Pied a Terre
Pollen Street Social
Rhodes 24
Semplice
Sketch

St John Bar and Restaurant
Texture
Viajante

Zafferano

1 Star Non London

21212 (Edinburgh)
Adam Simmonds at Danesfield House

Castle Terrace (Edinburgh)
L'enclume part 1, (Cumbria)

L'enclume part 2, (Cumbria)

Massana (Girona, Spain)
Number One (Edinburgh)
Restaurant Martin Wishart (Edinburgh)
Sienna (Dorset)
The Elephant (Torquay, Devon)
The Kitchin (Edinburgh)
The Royal Oak Paley Street (Berks)
The Sportsman (Kent)
The West House (Kent)

Tyddyn Llan (Wales)


London Restaurants (A-L)

108 Marylebone Lane
Alloro
Alyn Williams at The Westbury
Bar Boulud
Bar Boulud (revisited)
Barbecoa
Bistrot Bruno Loubet
Bob Bob Ricard
Bocca di Lupo
Boisdale Canary Wharf
Bonds
Brawn
Caffe Caldesi
Coq d'Argent
Coq d'Argent revisited
CUT at 45 Park Lane
Fishworks (Marylebone)
Galvin Bistrot de Luxe
Goodman (City)
Goodman (Mayfair)
Guinea Grill
Jose
J Sheekey (Oyster Bar)
J Sheekey (Restaurant)
Koffmann's
L'Anima
Le Caprice
Le Relais de Venise
London Restaurants (M-Z)

Magdalen
Maze Grill
Meateasy
North Road
One-O-One
Opera Tavern
Plateau
Polpo
Racine
River Restaurant at The Savoy
Roganic
Roux at Parliament Square
Rules
Scott's
Skylon
Simpson's in the Strand
Spuntino
St John Bread and Wine
The English Pig
The Grapes
The Gun
The Hawksmoor
(review 1, 2 and 3)
The Hawksmoor (Sevendials)
The Luxe
The Only Running Footman
The Ship (Wandsworth)
Tierra Brandisa
Wright Brothers (Borough Market)
Zucca


Non London Restaurants

Cucina (Edinburgh)
Losehill House Hotel (Peak District)
Lumière (Cheltenham)
Ondine (Edinburgh)
Paul Ainsworth at Number 6 Restaurant
Rafa's (Roses, Spain)
Restaurant Mark Greenaway (Edinburgh)
Rocksalt (Folkestone)
The Company Shed (West Mersea)
The Honours (Edinburgh)
The Jack in the Green (Devon)
The Lobster Shack (North Berwick)
Whisky & Wine

Tasting Wine (guest post by VTS)

Arberlour
Buying wine at auction: a rough guide
Glenfarclas (tasting)
Glenfarclas (distillery visit with George Grant)
Lafite & Margaux second wines
Lagrange 1949
Le Petit Mouton
Mouton, Lafite: a family rivalry

Bars

Hix Bar
The Coburg Bar
The Connaught Bar
Vertigo 42







Places

Bath
Behind Spitalfields
Billingsgate fish market
St Katharine Docks and Potters Field
Thames Festival
West Mersea: The Company Shed
Wilton's Music Hall

Books

a boy after the sea: Kevin Snook/Heston Blumenthal

AJ Liebling: Between Meals
Ferran Adria by Colman Andrews
Iain Banks: Raw Spirit
Roger Scruton: I Drink Therefore I am

Giving

Contact the elderley
Galvin's Chance
The Dan Snook Trust Foundation

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