Charles Campion’s London Restaurant Guide 2009
September 10th sees the launch of the new and completely revised pocket-sized Charles Campion’s London Restaurant Guide 2009. Featuring one-page reviews of over 400 restaurants, with 79 new entries this year, it’s quite simply the best survey of the London restaurant scene out there.
Restaurant critic Charles Campion knows the best places to eat in London for every occasion. Based on years of experience, he has carefully selected more than 400 restaurants, covering over 60 cuisines and ranging from Mayfair hotspots to Pakistani grill houses. Each review covers the cooking, service and ambience, as well as giving tips on specialities and basic information on set menus and wine.
Making it easy to compare the options, Charles Campion’s London Restaurant Guide 2009 breaks London down into over 40 neighbourhoods, each with its own easy-to-read map. With a helpful list of branches, comprehensive indexing and Charles Campion’s personal selection of ‘top picks’ lists (Best for …High Style, …Cheapies, …Honest French, …for Lovers of Fish and more) to suit all tastes and pockets, here is everything you need to know.
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What’s different about this guide?
- All the entries are written by Charles who offers a considered and experienced view of cooking, ambience and service
- Every single restaurant listed is excellent and you can depend on having a good meal in any of them wherever they are.
- It’s clearly and elegantly laid out, on quality paper and easy to negotiate.
- Comprehensive and easy to use – it’s organised by neighbourhood, indexed by name and by cuisine.
- Not only do ethnic restaurants get fair representation, with 56 Indian eateries, 20 Japanese joints and 47 Chinese and dim sum outlets, but there are 80 entries for restaurants classified as British or Modern British.
- Plus, each entry is accompanied by essential information including address, phone number, website (where applicable), opening times, credit cards, service charges and ranges of prices for courses and house wine.
Charles Campion is an award-winning food writer and restaurant reviewer. He is a past winner of the Glenfiddich Restaurant Writer of the Year award, and has written about restaurants in the London Evening Standard for over a decade.
He also contributes to many radio and TV food programmes, as well as a long list of magazines. He’s recently starred on the panels for BBC2’s Eating with the Enemy and ITV’s Britain’s Best Dish and is a regular on MasterChef and Celebrity MasterChef.
He appears regularly on BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme and BBC Radio 5 Live. He has also written a number of cookery books. Before becoming a food writer, Charles worked in a succession of London ad agencies and had a spell as chef-proprietor of a hotel and restaurant in darkest Derbyshire.
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