Food & Drink, Restaurants

Top table at Paramount

Top table at Paramount

Seeing a rainbow appear over the city you live in is one of life’s simpler but no less moving pleasures. Obviously it’s even better seen from near the top of a very tall building with a glass of champagne in one hand and a fork poised above a nice warm entrée. [Read more...]

Food & Drink, Restaurants

Curry and beers (Esquire style)

Curry and beers (Esquire style)

Curry at lunchtime is something of an antilogy: too heavy, too rich and (often) leaving much to be desired in the sophistication stakes. However, Trishna disabused us of all those notions from the first bite of perfectly pleated papadum (accompanied by sweet salsa and spicy shrimp). [Read more...]

Food & Drink, Hotels, Restaurants

The Return of (A) Masterchef

The Return of (A) Masterchef

Although it’s been open for just a month or so, Bistrot Bruno Loubet is already being talked about by foodies and critics as the restaurant opening of the year. [Read more...]

Food & Drink, Restaurants, Summer skills

Enjoy summer indoors

Enjoy summer indoors

There are many things we English plan for the Summer, but in our hearts we always know a mean douse of rain is likely to ruin most of them. [Read more...]

Competitions, Food & Drink, Restaurants, Top Fives

Top five* fish and chip bars

Top five* fish and chip bars

Once again, the Twittersphere has spoken. Last week on Twitter  (@esquireuk), we were extolling the virtues of our local chippy, The Golden Union on Poland Street, when all hell broke loose. The merits of crispy batter and expertly fried chips quickly snowballed into a heated (though not overcooked) debate on the best fish and chip bar in the UK. And Hungry of Tunbridge Wells certainly had his say… [Read more...]

Food & Drink, Restaurants, Review

Bring on the clowns

Bring on the clowns

We love it when a minor royal ups the people-watching ante when we check out a new restaurant. The night Esquire visited new cabaret club Circus in Covent Garden Princess Beatrice (accompanied by bodyguard and obligatory boat and ballet-shoe wearing posse) was there. Had somebody tipped her off we were coming? [Read more...]

Food & Drink, Restaurants

Reasons to be cheerful in January No 312 & 313

Reasons to be cheerful in January No 312 & 313

Sushinho, possibly one of London’s most unusual fusion restaurants (Brazilian cuisine meets Japanese – which, largely, works) is attempting to put a little joy into your January with its selection of guilt-free cocktails. [Read more...]

Food & Drink, Restaurants

Bar of the week – The Lodge

Bar of the week – The Lodge

We’re always on the lookout for a new venue to down a few well-earned cold ones. So we were understandably delighted to stumble across the blink-and-you-miss-it entrance to this excellent South London bar last week. [Read more...]