Quo Vadis.Still a brilliant Soho legend 100 years on
21/04/2026 .
Restaurant Reviews
Engawa London. Superb Japanese food, a feast for the eyes and tastebuds.
To say the china was as memorable as the food could be a veiled insult when applied to a lesser restaurant. But the spectacular Engawa, filling a niche for high-end Japanese dining in the heart of Soho, is as much a feast as much for the eyes as the tastebuds.
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Gusto by Heinz Beck
Conrad Algarve is, as far as I am concerned, a template for doing 5 star luxury properly, so it comes as no surprise to me that Conrad Algarve’s flagship restaurant, Gusto by Heinz Beck, would be anything else but stellar. I mean, the very name is a play on the Portuguese word for taste, gosto, even though it was named after Conrad Hilton’s father Augustus.
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Pachamama London. Peru comes to trendy Marylebone.
If a preponderance of Peruvian restaurants is a peculiarity of the London dining scene, an even greater peculiarity is that some of the best have non-Peruvian chefs at the helm. At the top end, Coya in Mayfair makes this spicy, colourful cuisine sizzle in the hands of Indian culinary genius Sanjay Dwivedi, while Pachamama London brings a highly affordable, slightly Anglicised version of the genre to an attractively decked-out basement in Marylebone.
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High West Distillery and Saloon. Discover Park City’s legendary Bar.
David Perkins has a lot to answer for as far as I am concerned. Describing his vision of building a whiskey distillery to a self confessed whiskey addict must surely be against some law or other. Nevertheless, after bullying me to taste some of his own whiskey creations at the High West Distillery and Saloon in downtown Park City Utah, this former biochemist turned restaurateur has achieved something quite remarkable; he can actually give Scotland a run for its money.
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7 Best bread shops in Melbourne. Smell the aroma of fresh baked bread.
Bread in all its forms is probably the most delicious food ever created and there is surely nothing finer than a hot crusty bread sandwich to quench an appetite. Given Melbourne’s penchant for the unusual and alternative, it goes without saying there are a multitude of different types of eating opportunities in this great city, so here is TripReporter’s pick of the best bread shops in Melbourne.
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Lisbon’s tastiest restaurants. Discover foodie heaven
Lisbon is awash with fantastic places to eat, you just have to know where to look for the best ones. Forget looking, here is a list of Lisbon’s tastiest restaurants just for you!
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