“Yankee burger” at Bar Boulud, Mandarin Oriental is the best burger I’ve had so far in London. Juicy beef patty, tomato, lettuce, sweet onions, pickles and homemade sesame bun.

Japanese tapas and sushi restaurant Dinings is a perfect example of when a student surpasses his master. Dining’s chef used to work at Nobu, so you will find many Nobu inspired dishes, but there are plenty of new creations such as various tapas or contemporary sushi. Seared Wagyu beef sushi topped with…

Ravioli of spring onion, lime, broad bean and mint purée at 2 Michelin stars Hibiscus restaurant is one of the most memorable dishes I’ve had recently. The acidity of the lime is so strong it is almost shocking. Then there is the freshness of mint, onions and broad beans flavours.…

Reservation at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal must be the hardest to get in London or maybe even Europe at the moment. When I called there I was told there were no availabilities until June. So I asked my hotel concierge to put me on their waiting list for the three…

St John (26 St John street, EC1M 4AY, London; tel. 020 7251 08048 ) got famous for it’s “nose to tail eating”, returning to old British cuisine where all the parts of an animal are consumed. It has great reviews and was even awarded one Michelin star- my lunch there…

Umu is the idea of a restaurant that I dreamt of ever since I had that very intriguing, but maybe too authentic for Westerners eyes and taste buds meal in Kikunoi in Kyoto .”Could anybody recreate the Kyoto style kaiseki meal but with a modern touch in Europe? “, I…

Every person I spoke in London praised Hunan, “a Chinese “gem””, where there are no menus and you will “explode” of the amount of delicious food. And indeed, Hunan is “not your typical Chinese restaurant.” You don’t get any menu, and the waiter just asks how spicy you would like…

I was sceptical before my dinner in Amaya – almost sure that it’s just another fashionable Indian calling itself modern (I’ve been to so many of them), but all that is modern is the fancy interior and crazy martinis, or, worse, European cuisine mixed with Indian spices. In fact, it…

I’ve read many positive things about New Tayyabs (Zagat 28/30!!) “authentic” Pakistani in Whitechapel, where you have to “queue to get a table”, the prices are “negligible” and the food is to “die for”, simply “the best South Eastern Asian in London”. We didn’t have to wait for a table,…

Mr Chow in London is not an ordinary restaurant. The cuisine is Mandarin, but the service reminds you of an old fashioned Italian restaurant somewhere in Manhattan (a long time ago). When you enter the place, you see a kitschy billboard “1968”, while the music played is somewhere between 1995…