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Walton (aka the Big W) is a failed breakdancer, extras 'actor', rugby player and lead singer of a never-heard-of garage band who, disillusioned with his own lack of talent immigrated from NZ to the UK in the mid '90s. Since then he has dedicated his spare time to drinking and schmoozing his way around various bars pubs and clubs of high - and occasionally low - repute, and writing about them on his now retired blog The Perfect Bloody Mary. After 17 years in the City, he has now found his calling working in the travel industry, and of course, reviewing for HITC.
Rosa's Thai Cafe, Spitalfields
I love Thai food. I love East London. And I love a ‘market-stall-to-restaurant’ story.
Lazybones, Farringdon
Hot dogs. Chicken wings. Popcorn. When on earth did these items make the leap from fairground food to respectable restaurant offerings?
The City of London Distillery Bar
When it comes to drinking spirits, I have always lived by steadfast rules.
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Sonny's, Barnes
Different parts of London create different expectations. The City is structured, macho, and expensive. Soho: dishevelled, creative and media. Shoreditch is stylised, design-led, and pretentious. Simplistic and bordering on stereotyping? Absolutely. But time and again, restaurants assume the persona of their locale. It’s logical when you think about it. So when we went to review a restaurant in leafy Barnes, we had very different expectations.
Floridita’s Rum Shack, Soho
I finally went to Cuba last year, after talking about it for what felt like most of my adult life. What a place. The combination of people, music and architecture managed to exceed my very high expectations. Even the food was surprisingly good. Another surprise was that Cuba unearthed my taste for rum.
Sushinho, The City
You always learn interesting things doing this job. For example, I never knew that there was a large Japanese population in Brazil.
Coq d'Argent, The City
The Silver Rooster would be a good name for a gastropub. But, to make a mark in the City of London in the '90s, you needed a foreign moniker (preferably French) and a clever pun. So the restaurant at the top of No 1 Poultry was named Coq d'Argent. Too witty for words
YO! Sushi, St Paul's
In the late '90s, a British entrepreneur pulled off the very clever trick of adapting the sushi conveyor belt restaurant that is popular throughout Asia, for the UK market. The combination of fast food convenience with a healthy and fashionable twist, and an interior colour scheme that would not have looked out of place at EasyJet, proved an instant hit.
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