Lists


Places to Not Eat


Aberdeen
  1. Jewel in the Crown: atrocious service, don't expect to be treated well here if you're Asian. Poor food.

Birmingham
  1. Celebrity Indian Restaurant: service is fine, curries are atrocious. 
  2. Café Opus at Ikon: served us burnt food without apology.
  3. Mowgli Street Food: Pretty restaurant with nice service, but a shame about the food - every single dish is overloaded with sugar.  

London
  1. Masala Zone Covent Garden: great decor, poor service and worse food.  
  2. Fratelli La Bufala: forgotten orders, waited 40 minutes before coming back to ask us what we wanted again.


Places I Like to Eat

These are just nice places that serve good food, in a steady dependable manner. Arranged alphabetically by city or region, and not exhaustive


Aberdeen, UK 
  1. The Light of Bengal: the best biriyani I've been able to find in Aberdeen
  2. Rustico: for dependable (British) Italian comfort food
  3. Foodstory: for the best coffee in town and surprisingly good vegetarian curries
  4. The Coffee House: for groups, soup and sandwiches
  5. Yorokobi by CJ: my local for Asian comfort food and sushi
  6. Yatai: for fancier Japanese food in town
  7. Thaikun: a surprisingly good chain, but do avoid their attempts at fusion
  8. Shri Bheema's: for their traditional Indian buffet brunch on Sundays
  9. Angus and Ale: for burgers with a Scottish twist
  10. The Long Dog Cafe: for ice creams and freakshakes
  11. Howie's: for their showcasing of Scottish cuisine and ingredients

Barcelona, Spain

  1. ABaC Restaurant: possibly the best Michelin starred experience I've ever had
  2. Granja M Viader: excellent desserts, classic rather than contemporary 

Birmingham, UK

  1. Lasan: Indian fine-dining, though occasionally unreliable due to their experimentation
  2. Red n Hot: Chinese comfort food 
  3. Purnell's: my favourite fine dining restaurant in town
  4. The Plough: for pub comfort food
  5. 4023: for their amazing slouvaki
  6. York's Bakery Cafe: a very versatile offering of coffee and cake to brunch and heavier meals

Dhaka, Bangladesh
  1. Hirajheel: my neighbourhood go-to
  2. Cilantro: for the varied and international menu
  3. Star Kebab: for the sheekh kebab
  4. Probortona: for homestyle food when you don't want to cook at home
  5. Rosh: a chain which has been reliable and occasionally even innovative with sweets
  6. Fakruddin's: arguably a little overrated but I do love their meat chaaps 

Edinburgh, UK

  1. Field Restaurant: Scottish fine dining at wallet friendly prices
  2. Sushiya: for casual but excellent sushi
  3. Nanyang: for Malaysian comfort food

Isla Mujeres, Mexico


  1. El Poc Chuc: excellent value loncheria on the island serving not too touristy food

Guildford & Surrey, UK
  1. Kalm Kitchen: a very versatile menu covering Sunday brunch to food on the go
  2. Pinnock's: for their coffee and cake...they serve basic food menu too 
  3. Positano: for great (British) Italian comfort food
  4. Restaurant Tante Marie: though I don't believe they open regularly to the public nowadays 
  5. Gomshall Mill: for Sunday lunch, especially outside in the summer
  6. The Star Petworth: for Sunday lunch
  7. Ashuka Tandoori: especially for their lamb shanks and shatkora dishes

London, UK

  1. C&R Cafe: for unassuming but good Malaysian food
  2. Nopi: expensive but possibly my favourite restaurant in London
  3. Lima: for an unfussy Michelin star experience
  4. Tombo: easy, Westernised Japanese comfort food 
  5. Nobu: excellent if expensive Western-style Japanese fine dining
  6. Amar Gaon: the best Bangladeshi homestyle food I've been able to find in London
  7. Dhaka Biriyani: the best Bangladeshi biriyani I've been able find
  8. Darjeeling Express: excellent, reasonably priced Indian Bengali restaurant 
  9. L'Eto Cafe: amazing cakes and pricey but interesting breakfasts
  10. Tayyab's: they do great things with meat curries, though they're not worth queuing for 
  11. Alounak: for nice Persian feasting food
  12. Al Arez Express Edgware: if you want good, meaty food and then shisha
  13. Red Fort Soho: for fancy but expensive curry
  14. The Delaunay: for brunch and late night cake
  15. SAID London: if you want to overdose on chocolate
  16. Cutter & Squidge: pricey but delicious cream cakes and trademarked biskies
  17. XU: excellent Taiwanese food

Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

  1. El Fogon: for excellent meat dishes. Touristy and apparently the quality of their output goes up and down, but great cooking when I was there late 2017
  2. Los Aguachiles: for excellent seafood tacos. Again touristy, but great cooking and several branches

Rome, Italy
  1. Pizzarium: for delicious (and different!) pizzas

Stonehaven, UK
  1. The Bay Fish and Chips: only place in the world where I actively look forward to fish and chips

Zagreb, Croatia
  1. Dubravkin Put: for contemporary cooking and seafood-led fine dining 

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