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...Step into the restaurant and it clearly isn’t trendy or traditional....
...It’s full-on artifice, an intentional and highly worked facsimile of a Manhattan cocktail bar and restaurant, so much so that you could ask how it philosophically differs from those repellent Mexican joints...
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...And yet the cheerful rattle of the shaker is a sound that’s now heard less and less, thanks to a trend in bar circles for cocktail pre-batching, or what restaurants call mise en place....
...The Whistling Oyster I live in Acton and this fishmonger/seafood bar is local. I should have shares in the place because I’m always there. I am a big seafood lover. My whole family is....
...We always order scrambled eggs with chilli oil on what is, as far as I am concerned, the best bread in London, and pick up provisions for the weekend: their homemade granola, bean-to-bar chocolate and signature...
...Choose is Spain’s first vegan Sicilian restaurant and wine bar, which opened its doors, bravely, in June 2020....
...After this third potent concoction, we staggered from the bar to the excellent restaurant, overseen by chef Jackson Boxer. “Would you like a cocktail to begin with?” said our waiter when we sat down....
...Two places I love are Ruby and the hidden gem The Library Bar in the Copenhagen Plaza hotel, where you can experience an early-20th-century atmosphere among rare first-edition books and comfortable classic...
...It’s a classic, one of the oldest restaurants in Brooklyn, and although it doesn’t look like much from outside, inside there’s a huge bar surrounded by mirrored walls....
...However many restaurants are on offer — the Queen Anne has 14, including a steakhouse, a Japanese and an Indian, as well as a dozen bars — it will not be enough....
...The Malibu Pier – once home to the storied hippie-Hollywood hangout Alice’s Restaurant – is now dominated by a fancy retail outpost of One Gun Ranch, co-owned by a different Alice, the English one called...
...It’s fair to say that attitudes towards salads have come a long way since then, and that is especially true in London, as illustrated by the long lines that feature at many of its salad bars at lunchtime...
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...“We never had plans to open a pub,” says Paskin, “but because the building was literally in front of us, we started coming up with the concept” of a pub, restaurant and cocktail bar over three floors....
...A man with form for running dream pubs attached to even better restaurants and, honestly, it felt like hope. In November, he opened The Devonshire....
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...It was a summer evening in 1998, and I was outside a bar called Bix in San Francisco working on my second martini....
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