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How I wish that The Espresso Room was closer to my office, I wish it was open on weekends, that it had seating, etc. Because it is the best coffee I have had in London so far and it is a shame to not be able to visit it more often.

As other reviewers have mentioned they use Square Mile beans and use them to make coffee to perfection. The interior is small and cosy, basically it is just a room with a coffee machine in it.

Definitely visit if you are into coffee and are in the area. Don't expect to sit down and read though.

Great little place close to Edgware Road station. The interior of the restaurant is very small but cosy and the staff are great at making you feel comfortable and welcome. Make sure to ask them for suggestions as they are more than happy to go through the menu with you and give recommendations.

It is hard to describe exactly what Burmese food is like, you can find influences from several different asian cuisines. Like one of the other reviewers I tried the chilli chicken, twice cooked fish curry and the aubergine and potato, which were all very good. The twice cooked fish curry is quite different in flavour but is definitely worth trying at least one.

Recommended.

I wanted to like Hunan but I just couldn't. The concept was very interesting, a restaurant with no menu, you just tell them what sort of food you like, if you like spicy food, have any allergies, etc. Then they start bringing you food, about 18 dishes in total. So far so good. At various points throughout the dinner we had to ask them to slow down as they were putting more dishes on the tables than we could have at a time.

Overall the food was quite bland and not that exciting. For me it felt like it was "generic Chinese" food, not from Hunan province, nor Taiwanese inspired like their website says. Some wasn't really that hot when served, the dishes were just thrown on the table (actually thrown, splashing on the tablecloth) and we weren't told what we were having most of the time.

In the end I felt a bit let down by the experience since it was quite expensive, for what we got, and the food was like I could get in any Chinese restaurant.

The Easton is a very nice pub near Farringdon. The interior is spacious and light with quite a few tables. The Sunday roast is not bad, the pork especially is very nice and the portion is large enough to keep you stuff for a while, but it's the weekday food that is the star of the place. I had steak and chips with gorgonzola butter which was very nicely cooked and the the sunken chocolate cake for dessert. Both were very tasty and very generous portions.

Newly opened coffee place situated between Tottenham Court Road an Goodge Street stations. Interior is nice and airy with lots of wooden details. The coffee they use is Square Mile beans. I tried the cappuccino which was good but there are other places nearby with better coffee.

You can easily miss the place walking past on the street. As others have said it is a very unpretentious place with not a lot of space inside. The interior is nicely pleasant and humble though and it is easy to feel relaxed and just enjoy the food.

The chef used to work at Nobu earlier and you can tell that the menu is a bit different from your normal Japanese restaurant. There were just too many things to choose from on the menu that sounded great. Settling on trying a few different items I have to say that all the food was very impressive. Highlights included the salmon and miso tartar chip, seabass carpaccio with ponzu jelly and truffle oil and the wonderful seared Wagyu beef with Korean spicy miso.

All dishes were superbly cooked and really tasty. Service was great - very unobtrusive and they knew how to space the dishes out so the wait was never too long but it was not an avalanche of food either.

Highly recommend it, will definitely go again.

Went for the Sunday roast and tried the mixed roast with roast beef and pork and some organic chicken. It was good but I have had better in London. The portion was quite generous and should leave most people feeling full afterwards.

The interior of the place is worth going for though, very light and airy with tables that are not too closely packed together.