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               Let me have men about me that are fat;
               Sleek headed men and such as sleep o' nights.
               Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
               He thinks too much; such men are dangerous
                  - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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- Smollensky's  
- Carnaby Burger Co  
- Reform Social & Grill   
- Honest Burgers   

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Don't go abroad to eat, stay home, see my two week Big Road Trip, and my one week Mini-Adventure

Read In Defence of Food Blogs and follow on article Are You Sharing the Restaurant with an Annoying Food Blogger?

Chefs @CriticalCouple now featured in the Wall Street Journal: read the article here

Good Food Guide 2013: Reviews of all top 20 restaurants

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

Fine Food Specialist

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 Map, Index, Drinks & Places

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Chef Dinners @CriticalCouple

2012/13
Paul Ainsworth
James Knappett
Simon Rogan

2011
Alyn Williams
Ben Spalding
Brett Graham
Bruno Loubet
Jason Atherton
Johnnie Mountain
Russell Brown & Mat Follas
Simon Hulstone


Pop Ups

Sat Bains at The Cube by Electrolux
Simon Rogan at The Cube by Electrolux

Restaurant Maps by Area

City of London
London's West End
UK non London

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

Hélène Darroze at the Connaught 
Helene Darroze Saturday Brunch
Hibiscus
Hibiscus (3/12)
Hibiscus (4/13)
L'Atelier (review 1 and review 2)
Le Gavroche
Le Gavroche (11/12)
Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley (review 1, 2 and 3)
Sketch
The Ledbury
The Ledbury (3/12)
The Ledbury (12/12)
The Square
The Square (03/13)

2 Star Non London

Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles (Scotland)
Gidleigh Park (Devon)
L'enclume part 1, (Cumbria)
L'enclume part 2, (Cumbria)
L'enclume (2012)
Le Champignon Sauvage (Cheltenham)
Le Champignon Sauvage: 25 years on
Le Champignon Sauvage (11/12)
Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons (Oxford)
Le Manoir at Christmas
Le Manoir: Christmas Eve and Boxing Day

Le Manoir (1/13)
Midsummer House (Cambridge)
Noma
Restaurant Nathan Outlaw (Cornwall)
Restaurant Sat Bains (Nottingham)
The Hand & Flowers (Marlow)
Whatley Manor (Wiltshire)

1 Michelin Star London

Alyn Williams at The Westbury
Alyn Williams at The Westbury (5/12)
Alyn Williams at The Westbury (truffle menu)
Alyn Williams at The Westbury (3/13)
Apsleys
Arbutus
Chez Bruce
Chapter One
Club Gascon

Dabbous
Dabbous (12/12) 
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
Dinner (6/12)
Galvin at Windows
Galvin La Chapelle
Galvin La Chapelle (revisited)

Hedone
L'Autre Pied 
La Trompette
Locanda Locatelli
Murano
North Road 
Pied a Terre
Pollen Street Social
Pollen Street Social (4/12)
Rhodes 24
Semplice
St John Bar and Restaurant
Tom Aikens
Texture
The Harwood Arms 
Viajante


1 Michelin Star Non London

21212 (Edinburgh)
5 North Street (Winchcombe)
Adam Simmonds at Danesfield House

Alimentum (Cambridge)
Casamia (Bristol)
Castle Terrace (Edinburgh)

Castle Terrace 2012 (Edinburgh)
Castle Terrace 2013 
Driftwood (Cornwall)
Fischer's at Baslow Hall (Derbyshire)
Glenapp Castle (SW Scotland)
Hambleton Hall (Rutland)
Holbeck Ghyll (Cumbria)

Inverlochy Castle (Fort William)
Knockinaam (SW Scotland)
L'ortolan (Reading)
Lords of the Manor (Upper Slaughter)
Lucknam Park (Wiltshire)
Manor House Hotel and Golf Club (Wiltshire)
Massana (Girona, Spain)
Morston Hall (Norfolk)
Mr Underhill's
Number One (Edinburgh)
Ockeneden Manor (West Sussex)

Paul Ainsworth at Number 6 Restaurant
Paul Ainsworth at Number 6 (Cornwall, 2012)

Raby Hunt (Co Durham)
Restaurant Martin Wishart (Edinburgh)
Sienna (Dorset)

Sienna 10th Anniversary meal
Simon Radley at The Chester Grosvenor
Sir Charles Napier (Oxfordshire)

The Albannac (Lochinver)
The Checkers (Wales)
The Crown at Whitebrook (Wales)
The Elephant (Torquay, Devon)
The Kitchin (Edinburgh)

The Kitchin (game tasting menu)
The Masons Arms (Devon)
The Nut Tree Inn
The Pass at South Lodge Hotel (West Sussex)
The Pony & Trap (Chew Magna)
The Royal Oak Paley Street (Berks)
The Sportsman (Kent)

The Walnut Tree (Wales)
The West House (Kent)
Tyddyn Llan (Wales)


London Restaurants (A-F)

06 St Chad's Place
108 Marylebone Lane
34
Admiral Codrington
Alloro
Balthazar
Bar 45 at Cut
Bar Boulud
Bar Boulud (revisited)
Barbecoa
Bentley's
Bibendum
Big Easy
Bistrot Bruno Loubet
Bistrot Bruno Loubet (April 2012)
Bistrot Bruno Loubet: Champagne Tasting
Bleeding Heart Restaurant
Bob Bob Ricard
Bocca di Lupo
Bodean's
Boisdale Canary Wharf
Bonds
Brasserie Chavot
Brasserie Zedel
Brawn
Bread Street Kitchen 
Bread Street Kitchen (Sunday brunch)
Bubbledogs&
Bubbledogs& The Kitchen Table
Bubbledogs Kitchen Table (12/12)
Burger and Lobster
Burger & Lobster (Farringdon)
Burger & Lobster (Soho) 

Butlers Wharf Chop House
Byron Canary Wharf
Caffe Caldesi
Carnaby Burger Co
Catch
Ceviche
Charlotte's Bistro
Coq d'Argent
Coq d'Argent revisited
CUT at 45 Park Lane
Disco Bistro EC4
Duck & Waffle

Duck & Waffle (Sunday brunch)
Ducksoup
Eyre Brothers
Fishworks (Marylebone)

London Restaurants (G-P)

Galvin Bistrot de Luxe
Gauthier Soho
Goodman Canary Wharf
Goodman Canary Wharf (July 2012)
Goodman (City)
Goodman (City): the burger post
Goodman (Mayfair)
Goodman (more burger talk)
Gows
Green's in the City
Guinea Grill  
Hard Rock Cafe   
Hawksmoor (review
 1, 2 and 3)
Hawksmoor (Guildhall)
Hawksmoor (Sevendials) 
Hawkasmoor (Air Street) 
Hix Oyster & Chop House
Honest Burgers
Iberica Canary Wharf
John Salt 
John Salt: Sunday roast
Jose
J Sheekey (Oyster Bar)
J Sheekey (Restaurant)
Kaspar's Seafood Bar & Grill
Koffmann's
Koffmann's (4/13)
L'Anima
La Bodega Negra
La Figa
Langan's Brasserie
Le Caprice
Le Pont de la Tour
Le Relais de Venise
Les Deux Salons
LIMA
Little Social
Magdalen
Mangal Ocakbasi
Marco Pierre White Steak & Alehouse
MASH
Maze Grill
Meateasy
MEATliquor 
MEATliquor (June 2012)
MEATliquor Dessert Post
MEATmarket

MEATmission
MEATmission (4/13)
Mishkin's
Moreno at Baglioni
Novikov
One-O-One
Opera Tavern
Outlaw's Seafood & Grill at The Capital 
Patty & Bun
Patty & Bun (Smokey Robinson)
Pitt Cue Co
Pizarro
Plateau
Plateau: the Josper post
Playboy Club
Polpo 

London Restaurants (Q-Z)

Quaglino's
Racine
Red Dog Saloon 
Reform Social & Grill
River Restaurant at The Savoy

Roast
Roganic
Roganic (3/2012)
Roganic (4/2012)
Roka Canary Wharf
Roux at Parliament Square
Rules
Scott's
Skylon
Simpson's in the Strand
Simspon's Tavern
Smiths of Smithfield (2nd floor)
Smiths of Smithfield (top floor)
Smollensky's (Canary Wharf)
Social Eating House
Sophie's Steakhouse
Spuntino
St John Bread and Wine
Sweetings
The Chancery
The Clove Club
The Corner Room
The Draft House
The English Pig

The English Pig (Westminster)
The Giaconda Dining Room
The Grapes
The Gun
The Luxe
The Only Running Footman
The Parcel Yard
The Player Slider Bar
The Punchbowl
The Quality Chop House
The Ritz
The Savoy Grill
The Ship (Wandsworth) 
The Town of Ramsgate  
The Wolseley
Tierra Brandisa
Tommi's Burger Joint
Tramshed
Wahaca
Wiltons
Wright Brothers (Borough Market)
Wright Brothers Soho
Zafferano
Zorita's Kitchen
Zucca



Non London Restaurants

Ackergill Tower (John O'Groats)
Aumbry (Manchester)
Aulis (test kitchen of L'enclume, Cumbria)
Cucina (Edinburgh)
Kyloe (Edinburgh)
Losehill House Hotel (Peak District)
Lumière (Cheltenham)
Lumiere 2012 (Still Cheltenham)
Nutters (Rochdale)
Ondine (Edinburgh)
Ondine 2013
Rafa's (Roses, Spain)
Restaurant Mark Greenaway (Edinburgh)
Rocksalt (Folkestone)
Rogan & Company (Cumbria) 
The Artichoke (Bucks)
The Company Shed (West Mersea)
The French (Manchester)
The Hardwick (Abergavenny)
The Honours (Edinburgh)
The Jack in the Green (Devon)
The Lobster Shack (North Berwick)
The Magpie Cafe (Whitby)
The Montpellier Chapter (Cheltenham)
The Seafood Restaurant (Padstow)
Titchwell Manor
Tuddenham Mill (Suffolk)
Wheelers (Whitstable)


Miscellaneous

Infusions4Chefs
The science of tips 
In defence of food blogs
Are you sharing the restaurant with an annoying food blogger
Why do we remember a restaurant as good?
A glass of fizz on the house: cost or investment?

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
Manna Society
The Dan Snook Trust Foundation
Dorset Chefs


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