Veronica's reviews
Review of Passione
08 May 08, 15:16
Passione 
It's a small restaurant and looks pleasant but nothing special - pale green walls with touches of terracotta, simple and fresh. Service is friendly and totally efficient. . Passione isn't cheap. But at least here you feel that every penny is going in the right place - in the best ingredients and the inspirational cooking.
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Review of La Rueda
08 May 08, 15:00
La Rueda
The best thing in this restaurant is the wine list that, predominantly Spanish, is pleasantly affordable, the majority of bottles under £20. The worst thing were the desserts, they were of the chilled cabinet variety, and didn't look too appealing.Staff is nice and helpful and the restaurant is very clean.
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Review of H K Diner
08 May 08, 14:54
HK
HK Diner is a good place to start. The staff are friendly - they don’t actually look like they want to turf you out the minute that last bit of noodle is slurped off your chopstick - and there’s actually some banter going on between them which makes for a lively atmosphere.
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Review of Masala Zone
07 May 08, 13:36
Masala Zone
This restaurant offers tasty food and it's not expensive. Service is good, the waiters are so nice and polite, always helpful. The restaurant has a private room for functions and an outdoor seating area. maybe the only bad thing that I can say is that this restaurant is a little bit formal and cold.
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Review of Eriki
07 May 08, 13:21
Eriki
This restaurant has been a surprised, we had the scallops and the dahi batat puri. Both were good , the scallops plump in a curried green herb sauce, the pastry of the puri still crisp despite being rammed with delicious potato and chutneys. The only bad thing is that this restaurant is not so cheap as you can imagine.
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Review of Racine
30 Apr 08, 14:34
Racine Restaurant
We chose the traditional Thai nahm arharn meal consisting of six shared courses: an hors d'oeuvre, a salad, a soup, a relish or light curry, a substantial curry and a stir-fried or casserole dish. Staff is friendly but not so attentive. Anyway we enjoyed the food and the time that we spent there.
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Review of Punjab Indian Restaurant
30 Apr 08, 14:19
Indian Restaurant
The food was of a uniformly high standard for this kind of restaurant. Of the starters, vegetable samosas were plump and flavourful, and pakora - onions cooked in chickpea batter - were crispy and light. Main courses were equally satisfying, fresh tasting and not swamped in heavy chemical-tinted sauces.
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Review of Opus 70
30 Apr 08, 14:05
Good Service
One of the best things about this place is the service, which is efficient but friendly. How good to be able to sit back and relax without being rushed. There is also a pleasant piano bar attached to the restaurant - gentle strains of music filter through - and if you're looking for a thoroughly civilised meal, you could do a lot worse than Opus 70.
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Review of Hason Raja
30 Apr 08, 14:01
Classical Indian and Bangladeshi Cuisine
The menu offers classical Indian and Bangladeshi cuisine interspersed with more innovative and unusual dishes, many of which I have not seen offered elsewhere. The accommodating staff are knowledgeable about ingredients and spicing, and can recommend dishes according to taste.
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Review of Ten Ten Tei
30 Apr 08, 13:47
Mix Sushi and Sashimi
The menu comprises a mix of sushi and sashimi, rice and noodle dishes, with a range of intriguing specials. We had the colourful platters of sushi we saw being carted to adjacent tables, a combination of glistening pieces of salmon, tuna, mackerel, salmon roe and prawn, as well as more unusual fish such as turbot, red snapper, cuttle fish and scallop.
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Review of Woodlands
30 Apr 08, 13:41
Woodlands
The food is traditional south Indian vegetarian fare, so you won't find your hackneyed menu of tikka masalas, kormas or biryanis here. Compared to most Indian restaurants, there is a good range of desserts. Gulab jamun, slightly chewy cardamom-scented fried milk balls in a sticky syrup, kulfi, Indian ice-cream that can be found in a variety of flavours and carrot halva, a dense pudding that has the consistency of fudge.
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Review of Balls Brothers
28 Apr 08, 14:25
Balls Brothers
This restaurant has a small menu but it's quite good and it was enough for all five of us. We had a good meal and we didn't have a "big" bill, so that's fine. Restaurant is nice and the atmosphere is unformal and comfortable. Staff is ok.
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Review of O Fado
28 Apr 08, 13:00
Good Portugues Food
This restaurant has a delicious food. I had a melt-in-the-mouth crepe stuffed with creamy veal as a starter. I can say that every dish was well cooked and tasty. During the dinner we enojoyed nice music because there was a guitarist. Staff is friendly and attentive. Only bad thing are prices, quite high...
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Review of Sakura
24 Apr 08, 14:02
Good but Noisy
I have visited this Japanese restaurant and I enjoied the simple atmosphere and the good food. My friends and I ate sashimi and sushi that were good and fresh. The staff was nice and pleasant. The restaurant was quite busy and there were noise and a bit of confusion, this has been the only bad thing.
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Review of The Old Crown
24 Apr 08, 13:42
Birthday at the Old Crown
I went to the Old Crown for a friend's birthday some weeks ago to have lunch. The service was excellent, staff very nice. This restaurant has a wide range of food (there's also vegan food). The place is quit and the atmosphere very friendly and soft. We spent a good time that day, really nice.
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Review of Fashion & Textile Museum
22 Apr 08, 15:35
Fashion & Textile Museum
This museum has been created vy Zandra Rhodes and it's a very nice pink, yellow and orange building. The Fashion & Textile Museum doesn't have a permanent exhibition but displays thematic exhibition.
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Review of The Wallace Collection
22 Apr 08, 15:15
Wallace Collection
The Wallace Collection gives the possibility to have an idea of aristocratic life of XVIII century. This ia a beautiful and redecorated building. Here there are paintings of XVII and XVIII centuries, porcelains, objects d'art and furnitures.
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Review of Market Place Bar and Restaurant
22 Apr 08, 14:44
Bar
The Market Bar is a benchmark of Portobello Market, is a bohémien and usually quiet bar. During the days there are tourists and people who lives in this area. The atmosphere change in the evening when there are not tourists. During the evening the bar offers music (on friday and on saturday there's jazz music).
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Review of Prince Charles Cinema
22 Apr 08, 14:31
Cinema
The Prince Charles is the cheapest cinema in the centre of London. This is not the right place for people who likes author movies. This place offers not just movies but famous musicals and live shows too (as The Sound of Music).
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Review of Medicine Bar
22 Apr 08, 13:51
Medicine Bar and VIP
Medicine Bar, one of the most beautiful place on Upper St, has young costumers. This bar is an ex-pub characterized by low sofás, soffused lights and a very good music. In fact the music goes from funky jazz to hip-hop. When I went there I didn't see any "VIP" but I heard that sometimes some celebrities used to come here to have a drink.
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Review of The Geffrye Museum
21 Apr 08, 15:47
Museum
This museum is situated in a quiet area of Kingsland Rd. This was a picturesque ex-hospitalization for seniors. The museum explain the furnishing's history, styles and fashon of furnishing. This museum is opened only once a month so you must book the ticket because there's a limited number of visitors.
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Review of Sir John Soanes Museum
21 Apr 08, 15:27
Soane's Heirloomes
I found this museum one of the most striking and fascinating. It's, on one side, a magnificent residence and, on the other side, a little museum. The museum preserves heirloomes and curious objects that represent the the Sir John Soane's taste.
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Review of Taman Gang
21 Apr 08, 15:08
Elegant and Soft
Despite Taman Gang is near to the crowded Marble Arch, this place is peaceful and quiet. This atmosphere is due to the delicate incense fragrance and to the clientele elegant but soft too. Here you can eat Indonesian, Chinese and Japanese food. The best thing here are the desserts! Taste them absolutly!!
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Review of The Zetter Restaurant and Rooms
21 Apr 08, 14:58
Zetter
This restaurant became a very appreciated gastronomic destination. The place is large and bright with big windows. The waiters make you feel comfortable, they very polite. The atmosphere is elegant but not formal. I knew that menú change every month and it offers good surprises..
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Review of The Chancery
21 Apr 08, 14:39
Lawyers Out!
This restaurant is sited in an area not appropriated. This because this is the law offices area. Infact the clients are lawyers and because of this the restaurant has a formal atmposphere. This is a shame becuase staff is nice and friendly and the atmosphere could be better for sure without lawyers!!!
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Review of Sherlock Holmes Museum
18 Apr 08, 14:12
Sherlock Holmes Museum
The Sherlock Holmes Museum is the most popular privately run museum in London. This museum is dedicated to the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. It is situated at 239 Baker Street, close to Regent's Park. This house contains old relics, caps and paintings, dips and shaking portcullis. I'm honest, is not an amazing museum.
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Review of Keats House
18 Apr 08, 13:54
Keats House
Keats House is a museum where John Keats lived from 1818 to 1820, and is the setting which inspired some of Keats’s most memorable poetry. In this house Keats wrote "Ode to a Nightingale". After he lived here Keats moved to Rome where he died of tuberculosis aged just 25. This house has been recently redecorated.
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Review of Maze
17 Apr 08, 16:29
Maze
In this restaurant I found exquisite food, quite and informal atmosphere and good tapas!! There's a wide set of food infact i didn't know what to choose at first, than I decided for salad with bacon (very good!). Staff is nice and freindly so I felt really comfortable. The restaurant has a minimal design while a bad thing is that the tables are too closed.
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Review of Vertigo
17 Apr 08, 16:12
Not Bad
The best thing of this wine bar is where is placed. The Vertigo 42 overlooks a spectacular view. In the evening it's beautiful because you can see the thousand London's lights. It's better to book the seats to go there, at least 24 hourse before. The cookery is modern and it excels above all in fish dishes but is not so delicious, the best thing is the place.
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Review of The Criterion Grill
17 Apr 08, 14:05
Good French Food
This is a characteristic restaurant because inside there are mirrors and many pendants, marbles and sparkle mosaics. Obviously the best thing is food. This restaurant offers french food and delicious dishes eas the saffron mussel soup or the " beef tartare". I advice to go to this restaurant in the late evening because it's always full of people.
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Review of The Charles Dickens Museum
17 Apr 08, 13:19
A Walk In The Past...
The Charles Dickens Museum in London is the world's most important collection of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator. The only surviving London home of Dickens (from 1837 until 1839) was opened as a Museum in 1925 and is still welcoming visitors from all over the world in an authentic and inspiring surrounding. On four floors, visitors can see paintings, rare editions, manuscripts, original furniture and many items relating to the life of one of the most popular and beloved personalities of the Victorian age.
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Review of Percival David Foundation Of Chinese Art
17 Apr 08, 13:17
Chinese Art
The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art is a collection of Chinese ceramics and related items in London, England. The Foundation's main purpose is to promote the study and teaching of Chinese art and culture. The Collection consists of over 1,400 pieces of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing porcelain from the 10th century to the 18th. It includes examples of the rare Ru and Guan wares and two important Yuan dynasty blue and white porcelain temple vases dated to 1351 A.D. It also holds a large library of Western and East Asian books related to Chinese art. In 1950 the Collection was presented to the University of London by the collector and scholar Sir Percival David. It said to be second only to the National Palace Museum Collection in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Review of Hermitage Rooms Shop
17 Apr 08, 13:13
Hermitage Rooms to Give
This shop is well furnished. It offers products about the exhibition as pictures of Catherine's personality and the luxury with which she surrounded herself and her favourites. It includes books, bags, posts, pens, house objects and every kind of souvenir that it's nice to take home or to give. I find that this shop could solve some porblems to the tourists who are looking for some presents.
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Review of Chelsea Physic Garden
16 Apr 08, 15:35
Chelsea Physic Garden
The Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries’ Garden in London, England in 1673. (The word ‘Physic’ here refers to the science of healing.) It is the second oldest botanical garden in Britain, after the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, which was founded in 1621.
Its rock garden is the oldest English garden devoted to alpine plants. The largest fruiting olive tree in Britain is there, protected by the garden’s heat-trapping high brick walls, along with what is doubtless the world’s northernmost grapefruit growing outdoors. Jealously guarded during the tenure of the Society of Apothecaries, in 1983 the Garden became a registered charity and was opened to the general public for the first time.
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Review of The Trocadero Centre
16 Apr 08, 15:30
Trocadero Time
This is a fun gallery organised in six floors that offer expensive high-tech penny arcades for youg people, movie theatres, restaurants, bars and more. Personally I don't find this place so interesting but you can have fun and stay comfortable when it's raining outside! A nice place to spent some hours with friends.
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Review of Museum Tavern
16 Apr 08, 13:59
Did you see Freud??
I went to see this pub because I knew that Freud usually went here to drink something after work, so I was curious. It's a lovely pub near the British Museum. The quality and standard of service is preatty good. When I went in this pub there were many tourists that harmed the atmosphere because the pub was too busy. I think it's better to go at th Museum Tavern in the late afternoon or evening.
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Review of Kenwood House
14 Apr 08, 15:07
Enchanting House
Set in tranquil leafy parkland with sweeping views over London, Kenwood House was remodelled for Lord Mansfield by the great Robert Adam. Among its splendid interiors hangs the wonderful Iveagh Bequest of paintings, including masterpieces by Vermeer, Rembrant, Turner, Reynolds and Gainsborough: along with the Suffolk Collection's magnificent portraits of Elizabethan and Stuart celebrities. The 18th century landscaped grounds preserve many original features.
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Review of Buckingham Palace
14 Apr 08, 15:02
One detail more
At the back of the palace, large and park-like, is Buckingham Palace Garden. The Garden Front of the palace, by Nash, is of pale golden Bath stone. The garden, which includes a lake, is the largest private garden in London.
Here the Queen hosts her annual garden parties each summer, but since June 2002, she has invited the public into the Garden on numerous occasions. See Buckingham Palace Garden for accounts for the historical spectaculars which marked the Queen's Golden Jubilee (2002) and her 80th birthday (2006).
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Review of Manna
14 Apr 08, 14:22
Mmmmm...Manna...
Delicious restaurant for vegan people (or not), especially good for Saturday or Sunday brunch when you can grab a table outside or in the conservatory. The food it very good, you can eat Organic tortilla espanola, goats cheese, creme fraiche and coriander basmati rice cake, organic asparagus, pea and lettuce tart and a devilish rich squidgy chocolate cake...mmmm...
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Review of Petticoat Lane Market
14 Apr 08, 14:09
Nice walk
Petticoat Lane is one of the most famous street market in the UK. This marjet attracs thousands of visitors every Sunday. I liked thi market because I could find a variety of goods, from leather garments to clothes to watches to jewellery to electrical goods to food. Obviously, the market is too crowded, above all in the afternoon...so go there in the early morning.
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Review of The Dragon Bar
11 Apr 08, 14:46
Bar for Fun
This place is absolutly amazing and distinguishing but with a dark and melancholic atmosphefere. It is a particulare place with porcelain objects, lantern lights and velvet curtains. I felt comfortable because the bar is really friendly and funny and you don't have to wear elegant clothes to enter!!
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Review of Portobello Road Market
11 Apr 08, 11:26
Portobello Market
I've been to Portobello Market some years ago and I think that it's not the same anymore. I like Portobello St with all the coloured houses and I like its order, but I was disappointed with the market. Unfortunatly I didn't find anything interesting, not only in the antique department but in the clothes department too.
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Review of Harrods
11 Apr 08, 10:36
Harrods
I find this place good to have a walk and to have a look at the different floors. It' s the good place for tourists who want to buy some presents...and obviously for people who can spend much money!! I didn' t buy anything but the shoes department is a big temptation...
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