My Summer 2020 restaurant visits, brought to you by your part-time socialite

Cottons on Vauxhall Riverside - average Caribbean food, it’s not black owned so not surprised, however I chose it due to its extensive outdoor seating area which was perfect post lockdown. Their cocktails are elite and the atmosphere is lovely in summer

CocoB’s in Willesden - nice Caribbean food from this black owned cafe, sad that they didn’t have the lobster on the day but, post lockdown I understand. I’ll deffo be back

Buenos Aires Steakhouse in Chiswick - accidental find after visiting Kew gardens. Good steak actually. There are few good steak places in London so well done

Gunpowder Spitalfields - don’t be put off by their limited menu - every dish is created to perfection, one of my fave places this year. I’d recommend the whole soft shell crab it is ELITE

More Gunpowder pics because I am eggstra

I’m not sharing the location of this one because I basically live here and I have ops but... they do the best sourdough pizzas and I even had rosé something must have been very wrong

The Ivy Asia- I’ve only ever been to the Ivy in Dubai but I won’t compare- beautifully intricate food, some dishes a lot nicer than others- I’d recommend the soft shell crab (spot the theme here) and be wary of all the Instagram Babes clogging the toilets and the pink tree

I went back to my regular last night and forgot my plant at the bar best believe I’m calling them today and asking them to look after it until I am back...

M - Threadneedle Street. I have finally found a replacement for CAU. Incredible steak - I had a medium rare ribeye and the waiter recommended a lovely Malbec

Truffle and mushroom arancini, with tarragon mayonnaise from the Aviary, Finsbury Square

So so good

Sea Bream- also from the Aviary

Took my family back to Gunpowder in Tower Bridge because I needed that soft shell crab again. Sun and good food. I am so happy

The Folly- the D&M group are known for very average food but nice aesthetics (albeit all fake plants)

If you have a Nando’s /Wagamama budget come here for lunch instead. It’s a pretty spot.

I had salt & chilli squid and pan roasted cod with mussels, truffle and rosemary fries

Burger & Lobster, at 1.9pounds this Lobster was way too big for me to handle...

Phoenix Palace, Baker St - my Chinese & Viet friends always take me here, they do good authentic dim sum, but today I had crispy chilli beef, crispy seaweed and salt and chilli squid

The Alchemist, Canary Wharf, think I’ve had too much to drink to even tell you what this tastes like tbh

Rum Kitchen - I only came here by accident because Fishbowl was full go to fish, wings and tings instead - it’s black owned and nicer x

Hawksmoor- One of my fave steak places, dinner was amazing as always, I had the ribeye with fries and mac and cheese

Amazonico Mayfair, easily in the top 3 restaurants I’ve been to this year, beautiful food and decor... we all went for varying steaks and the duck fried rice was amazing!

J Sheekey- this restaurant was disappointing after the recommendations I’ve had, although the scallops were lovely, the shrimp and soft shell crab was meh and the presentation was dull...

Miller & Carter- surprisingly good steak. I had a medium-rare ribeye with béarnaise sauce and mac&cheese (they ran out of truffle, sigh)

Viet Grill - for amazing and authentic Vietnamese food you’re spoilt for choice in Hoxton/Old Street area - I had salt and chilli squid, salt and chilli prawns and seafood pho (and a lot of hoisin sauce because it’s the best)

Corinthia Hotel London - I only had dinner by accident lol. Average burger and chips, the dessert was quite nice though (treacle tart with vanilla ice cream)

I think I have restaurant fatigue because Dishoom was just.. okay... I had chilli chicken, lamb with ginger, roomali roti, masala prawns, and chicken ruby

But Cecconis in Mayfair on the other hand... beautiful Italian food, really loved the burrata, aubergine and sundried tomato and the spaghetti lobster.. so so good

PF Chang’s is always a good time, I had dynamite shrimp, Singapore street noodles, sweet and sour chicken, Mongolian beef and shrimp dumplings with a mojito

So @wrappednculture would be proud to know that we restaurant hopped for desert and had gelato from Amorino, I had mango and lemon, so so good

Bob Bob Richard, gorgeous food, really nice decor, perfect date night place, I had lobster mac and cheese and a leg of lamb, also tasted the steak tartare and truffled potato which were amazing

Nasi Goreng (my forever fave), sushi, sashimi, and more from the Pavillion in Essex

Robata, Soho.. a perfect dinner featuring soft shell crab rolls, chilli pepper squid, kimchi gyozas, king oyster mushroom skewers, j fried chicken bao buns, truffled fries and kimchi rice with nori.

After a short hiatus because Covid came for my family I went to ping pong, after too many authentic yum cha experiences recently I wasn’t very impressed but we move. The ginger cake was nice!

I don’t like repeating restaurants unless they are amazing but my friends like to bully me into taking them out after watching my stories so I ended up back at PF Chang’s.. again lol

Daphne’s was incredible, between us we had scallops with chilli and garlic, buratta with dattorini and focaccia, spaghetti with lobster, fillet of cod with fregola and tiramisu

Flat iron was better my second time around, I had a 300g rib eye (well two actually because they mixed up our orders) with fries, truffle mayonnaise and béarnaise sauce.. and free salted caramel ice cream for dessert.

I have to readjust my top 3 restaurants this year because Sticky Mango was elite.. we had black pepper prawns, spicy Thai ribs, chicken & shrimp nam rolls, crab dumplings, twice cooked glazed duck, and truffle egg fried rice.. every single dish was amazing

Burger and Lobster bought their £20 menu back for October so I had to go and make the most of it.