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M Restaurant London | Winner of Best Steak Restaurant London
Please do buy the cookbook above – It’s full of M’s Executive Chef Michael Reid’s brilliant recipes.
Mike has had an epic career, since joining me on this challenge to not just create a new restaurant venue, not just another restaurant London, or a steak restaurant London, but a great institutional restaurant, one element of which is a Grill restaurant that happens to specialise in the worlds finest steak.
Moving to London at eighteen, I fell in love with grande dame London restaurants such as Mezzo, Quaglino’s and The Ritz.
I hope you get chance to experience and see that both the central London M restaurant venues enjoy a sense of theatricality inspired by these and similar venues, and see the attention to detail that we have applied with the attempt to create the perfect restaurant experience: Whether going Gluten Free in Raw, enjoying Mike’s great Fayre in the Grill restaurant or nipping into our Dog-Friendly Bars for a Wagyu snack or cocktail (there are not enough dog friendly restaurants in London BTW) We aim to offer quality in an understated luxurious environment.
M Restaurant Victoria | Restaurants in Victoria | Raw Bar & Grill
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Chef Michael Reid, who is a regular face on British TV screens, trained at both Le Gavroche and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay returned from Melbourne to the London restaurant scene to open M Victoria Street.
Michael worked closely with celebrity chef Shannon Bennet in his award winning Vue de Monde restaurant and in opening Jardin Tan.
All at the same time as working with some of Australia’s finest chefs, including George Calombaris and Peter Gilmore.
Looking for places to eat in Victoria?
M Restaurant is conveniently located just a short walk from Victoria Station, Apollo Victoria Theatre, Victoria Palace Theatre.
M Raw | Gluten-Free Restaurant London | Raw London
Hoppers, restaurant review: 'Love at first taste as I'm transported to ...
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I only have to flick through my photo album… That early morning train journey rattling through tea plantations, punctuated by hot, sweet chai and egg hoppers.
The menu comes with a charming glossary of Tamil food, which both informs and makes the mouth water: "Gotu kola sambol is pennywort relish with coconut, Maldive fish and onions."
A wafer-thin "bowl" of pancake, with a just-set fried egg within, generously strewn with pepper, is picture-perfect; the sweet onion relish, that coconut and fish medley in sambol form, and an eye-poppingly fresh coriander chutney.
We've added a fish kari for £5.50 and the white fish in another russet curry tastes of long, slow cooking by a true expert in Tamil cuisine.
Hoppers is not London's, or the UK's, only Sri Lankan restaurant, of course.
Restaurant Review: M. Wells Steakhouse in Long Island City, Queens
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I have eaten whole tasting menus that were less filling than the appetizers at M. Wells Steakhouse.
French onion soup is more solid than liquid, stuffed with poached pork belly and a marrow bone (tiny spoon provided) that takes the natural beefiness of onion broth to its logical conclusion.
Solomon Gundy, a dish that takes pickled smelts as its starting point, adds half a potato waffle, a huge outcropping of crème fraîche and a landslide of intensely crunchy trout eggs.
The best steak I ate at M. Wells Steakhouse came from a neighbor’s tomahawk chop, grilled on a whole rib almost the size of a goalie’s stick.
And if Mr. Dufour can fix the trout dish and find a steak that has the tomahawk chop’s intensity for less than $200, I hope it stays that way.