Le Metro Bar and Bistro (Restaurant)
28 Basil Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1AS
“Best for: quick bites in Knightsbridge; a taste of the good life. Great: steaks; desserts; mustard. It’d be all right living in a hotel, I reckon. I wouldn’t have...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 18 Jun 12

Barts (Bar)
Chelsea Cloisters, Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, London, SW3 3DW
“Best for: the tweeest party that side of the river. Great: cocktails, sharing platters. Have you seen that TV show, Made In Chelsea? It’s about these awful poshos...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 25 Jan 12

Caravaggio (Bar / Restaurant)
Bankside House, 107-112 Leadenhall Street, City of London, London, EC3A 4AA
“Best for: lunch on expenses. Great: service; traditional Italian cooking with a twist. I got given 500 business cards by work, but I’m not so good at handing them...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 10 May 11

The Regent (Bar)
21 Chestnut Grove, Balham, London, SW12 8JB
“Best for: steak and chips; fish and chips. Great: friendly, informal atmosphere. My sister? She’s a sweet girl, but what tsuris she gives me! She’s got a boy; the...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 28 Jan 11

Odette's (Restaurant)
130 Regent's Park Road, Swiss Cottage & Primrose Hill, London, NW1 8XL
“Best for: fine dining in Primrose Hill, celeb spotting. Great: seasonal starters, award-winning mains. Primrose Hill’s a funny old place. A 19th century urban village...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 08 Dec 10

Bar Pepito (Bar)
3 Varnishers Yard, The Regent Quarter, Kings Cross, London, N1 9FD
“Best for: Tapas, sherry, nights out in King’s Cross; Great: atmosphere, olives and jamon In a city that changes as rapidly as London, there was always something...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 13 Oct 10

Corrigan's Mayfair by Richard Corrigan (Restaurant)
28 Upper Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, London, W1K 2NG
“The two months of fallow airtime between Masterchef series are always a difficult time, and we all have different ways of dulling the ache. My girlfriend (henceforth known as Bea – something inside me...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 07 Jun 10

Blue Bar (Bar)
Vinopolis, 1 Bank End, Borough & Southwark, London, SE1 9BU
“Poor me, pour me… Oh, it’s a sorry tale. I sit in a windowless office kitchen, slopping out lunchtime leftovers from a microwaveable dish. I seek solace in the pennies I must be saving but it hurts,...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 13 May 10

Le Bouchon Breton (closed) (Bar / Restaurant)
8 Horner Square, Old Spitalfields Market, Shoreditch, London, E1 6EW
“Like faded family photos, my father’s tales of adolescent holidays spent passing through France in the back seat of some obsolete Austin instil in me a particular nostalgia. Embellished by my grandmother’s...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 26 Mar 10

The Tommyfield (Bar / Restaurant)
185 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall & Oval, London, SE11 4EZ
“It seems you can have too much of a good thing. Recently, it’s become fashionable to imply that the gastropub has somehow destroyed the Proper Pub, to suggest that this poster boy for gentrification has...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 17 Feb 10

The Apartment at Kettner’s (Bar / Club)
29 Romilly Street, Soho, London, W1D 5HP
“The Apartment is found in the farthest flung corner of Kettner’s, a pseudo members’ club in Soho, which boasts of an illustrious past, taking in such luminaries as Napoleon III, Oscar Wilde and Agatha...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 21 Jan 10

Mooli's (Restaurant)
50 Frith Street, Soho, London, W1D 4SQ
“We’ve all had those moments in our lives where our paths cross with those bound for bigger and brighter things. Sometimes their ascent is impossible to predict, and seems almost accidental. One day they’re...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 05 Jan 10

Gilgamesh (Bar / Restaurant)
Camden Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, Belsize Park & Chalk Farm, London, NW1 8AH
“I look at Camden through rose tinted glass. I see the high street pulsing with people, pouring in and out of higgledy-piggledy parades of stalls and shops, dwarfed by giant models of cherry red boots and...”
Ben Brill, Fluid London reviewer 06 Dec 09

"F*ck the Chicken Tikka"
Fluid London's Ben Brill chats with Sam and Matt - the founders of Soho's newest and liveliest eating experience, Mooli's - about flat whites, blogging, and leaving The City behind. 27/01/10
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