Restaurant reviews

The Residency

An evening at The Residency Notting Hill provides some 'seriously entertaining eavesdropping' for Lucy Lord

Yauatcha

Lucy Lord celebrates Chinese New Year by feasting on dim-sum at Soho's Yauatcha

Flora Indica

Lucy Lord dines at Kensington's Flora Indica and has 'an innovative yet seriously scrumptious meal that never puts innovation before flavour

Maggie Jones

Lucy Lord enjoys the 'friendly and unpretentious' atmosphere at longstanding Kensington local
Maggie Jones

Hakkasan Hanway Place

Lucy Lord samples the 'absolutely exquisite' Chinese New Year menu at Hakkasan Hanway Place

Casa Cruz

Lucy Lord has a sunny Sunday lunch on the 'pleasingly leafy' upstairs terrace' of Notting Hill's Casa Cruz

La Poule au Pot

Lucy Lord experiences a 'Proustian sense of nostalgia for childhood holidays in the South France' at La Poule au Pot in Pimlico

​Albertine

Lucy Lord finds that eating at Albertine is ''rather like being in the comfortable home of a cultured and
​well-travelled friend'

The Walmer Castle

Lucy Lord dines at The Walmer Castle and reckons that 'the changes  have worked, breathed life into the old boozer'

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