Chris Pople
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Restaurant blogger. And little else.
http://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com
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Rhodri Marsden
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This is the 15th year of
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.
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New post! Got a bit of a blogging backlog to work through, so hot on the heels of yesterday's review this is PSV Cuisine in Waterloo (and it's also brilliant):
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PSV, Waterloo
The tradition of exciting, regional SE Asian food appearing above or behind unassuming pubs in London is alive and well. The first time I en...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/12/psv-waterloo.html
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New post! Kokin in Stratford is high-end Japanese food done almost flawlessly.
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Kokin, Stratford
Lots of potentially very well-respected global cuisines have an unenviable, constant uphill battle against the enshittification of their bra...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/12/kokin-stratford.html
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New post! With one notable exception of a dish, Firestarter aren't reinventing the wheel. But they do it all so well, you don't care.
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Firestarter, Liverpool Street
It's often very difficult to stand out from the crowd in Restaurant London, especially when - as in Firestarter's case at least - you appear...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/12/firestarter-liverpool-street.html
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New post! Janda Diner in Peckham is everything.
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Janda Diner, Peckham
It's important to point out about Janda Diner that it's a very different restaurant at lunchtime than at dinner, and if that you only go for...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/11/janda-diner-peckham.html
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Someone's watched the IT crowd
www.willys.co.uk
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Lucy Fishwife 🥐
about 2 months ago
Hello NYC! London here! Nine years into a lefty Muslim mayor (I happily voted for him every fucking time!). I came home happily drunk and unburka-ed on the tube the other night, and my asthmatic husband had not had to use a daily inhaler for years because of the vastly improved air quality. Enjoy!
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The brilliant Swan is finally getting some recognition
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'Run don't walk' to little-known fish and chip shop that's 'best in the North'
A family run Fish and chip shop has been in the business for close to 50 years and finally received its praises as the 'best in the north'
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/little-known-fish-chip-shop-32821373#google_vignette
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New post! Elephant in Hackney is a decent local Italian restaurant
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Elephant, Hackney
I spent most of this month in Spain (see previous post) and although I'm happy enough to be back in cold, wet London town (honest), as the e...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/11/elephant-hackney.html?m=1
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New post! Compartir in Cadaques, one of the weirdest meals of my life.
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Cadaqués
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3 months ago
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Hands up everyone who got their email read out on the
@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social
podcast this week 🙌 (Me. I did.)
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
3 months ago
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
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I just backed WHOLE BEAST FINDS IT HOME SWEET HOME on
@kickstarter.com
www.kickstarter.com/projects/130...
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WHOLE BEAST FINDS IT HOME SWEET HOME
We have finally found a site for Whole Beast, after years on the road, countless residencies & pop ups, we have a place to call home.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1305989997/whole-beast-finds-it-home-sweet-home?ref=thanks-tweet
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New post! Dalla in Hackney is wonderful.
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Dalla, Hackney
The comparisons with my last post won't be immediately obvious, but within the context of their own chosen cuisines Josephine Bouchon and D...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/09/dalla-hackney.html?m=1
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Scott Bryan
3 months ago
I’m not saying UK trains are expensive… … but in Spain and I accidentally booked business class which comes with a full meal and several glasses of wine it was still cheaper than an Avanti off peak single standard fare.
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Parody Nigel Farage
4 months ago
A pathetic group of UKIP numbskulls where vastly outnumbered by the good people of Liverpool, who told them to fuck right off.
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New post! The ideal neighbourhood restaurant in Belzan, Liverpool
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Belzan, Liverpool
This was actually my second visit to Belzan. The first, according to my iPhone photo history, was on 8th May 2020, but was a little bit tric...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/08/belzan-liverpool.html
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Been meaning to share this for a while but keep forgetting - if you use this link to sign up for Octopus energy (green, v reasonable), we both get £50:
share.octopus.energy/olive-sky-7
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Friend referral | Octopus Energy
The UK's most awarded energy supplier. We're doing energy better - for you and the environment.
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New post! Incredible seafood at Nou Bar del Poble, Peratellada (Spain)
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Nou Bar del Poble, Peratellada
There's a part of me knows, deep down inside, that it probably is possible, if you try really, really, really hard, to have a bad meal in Sp...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/08/nou-bar-del-poble-peratellada.html
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New post! One of the best meals I've ever had anywhere, at 8 by Andy Sheridan in Liverpool
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8 by Andy Sheridan, Liverpool
There are many things about 8 by Andy Sheridan that might rub you up the wrong way. The name, for a start - I've never really been behind th...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/08/8-by-andy-sheridan-liverpool.html
5 months ago
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The Fence
5 months ago
What is the worst wine list in London? Who's serving the plonkiest selezione in town? We asked a host of food and beverage luminaries, and nearly all of them insisted on anonymity, except for two:
@jayrayner1.bsky.social
and Andy Hayler.
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Capital Letter #12
In which we crown London's plonkiest wine list
https://thefencecapitalletter.substack.com/p/capital-letter-12
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New post! Luna is an extremely pleasant, unpretentious little place on the South Bank.
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Luna, Shad Thames
This is not going to be a long post. Not because Luna - a cosy little new wine bar from the people behind Legara just over the road - isn't ...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/08/luna-shad-thames.html
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New post! Bo.Tic in Corçà. Should a €300+pp tasting menu restaurant be charging extra for bread?
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Bo.Tic, Corçà
You will probably be aware that Catalonia has well more than its fair share of influential restaurants, a tradition that runs from El Bulli ...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/07/botic-corca.html
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Marie Le Conte
5 months ago
thanks to
@luketurner.bsky.social
for making me aware of Zedel removing the steak haché frites from its prix fixe menu, will be wearing a black armband for the rest of the month, maybe the quarter
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KB
5 months ago
My colleague has a new parrot who will type us (nonsensical) messages on Slack if she leaves her desk unattended. Meet Chickpea 🦜
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New post! An excruciating moment with a Very Expensive Lobster, but a very good meal otherwise at El Moli.
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El Molí de l’Escala, L'Escala
I have eaten at El Moli a number of times over the 40 or so years I and my family have been visiting this part of the world. The first coupl...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/07/el-moli-de-lescala-lescala.html
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New post! Vegan sushi at Studio Gauthier, and very good it is too.
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Studio Gauthier, Fitzrovia
Hard as it may be to believe from my supremely easy-going and liberal attitude these days (no laughing at the back), but there was a time wh...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/06/studio-gauthier-fitzrovia.html
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New post! Disappointing Texas-Chinese fusion BBQ at Uncle Hon's, Hackney Wick.
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Uncle Hon's BBQ, Hackney Wick
After traipsing halfway across London, dodging travel works and closed Overground lines and carriages with malfunctioning air conditioning a...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/06/uncle-hons-bbq-hackney-wick.html
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Please let this be true
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New post - Norbert's in East Dulwich. Nice chicken, not completely spoiled by a Wine Service Incident. Obviously I made a mistake and so did they, but what should have happened?
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Norbert's, East Dulwich
They're like the buses, these rotisserie places. You wait years for a decent, affordable spit-roast chicken in the capital, and then two com...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/06/norberts-east-dulwich.html
7 months ago
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Right it seems the most sensible thing to do is subscribe to my Substack at
chrispople.substack.com
where you can choose to receive full posts in the body of the email, for free.
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7 months ago
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Happy Bank Holiday everyone!
7 months ago
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New post! A mini rant about the terrible beer selection at some otherwise decent restaurants, and a review of the Parakeet, Kentish Town.
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The Parakeet, Kentish Town
I'm going to start this post about the Parakeet, with - unfortunately (for them, and possibly for you) - a bit of a rant. Why is it that no ...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-parakeet-kentish-town.html
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Automatic qualification for anywhere (in this case the Parakeet) doing sub-£30 bottles of wine. London thanks you. (And shame on anywhere starting at £55. You know who you are.)
7 months ago
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So my email subscriber service
Follow.it
has decided to start charging to send the contents of my blog in the emails themselves, as opposed to a link to their copy of my blog. Which is bollocks, obviously. Anyone know of any free email subscriber options I can switch to?
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New post! A trip to the bustling Holborn Food Hub and the lovely 7 Floor Malaysia Tea Room.
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7 Floor Malaysia Tea Room, Holborn
In a world of sprawling Mercado Metropolitans, Market Halls and Arcade Food Halls, the miniscule Holborn Food Hub is a reminder that food co...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/05/7-floor-malaysia-tea-room-holborn.html
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Rhodri Marsden
7 months ago
I just remembered Dave Gorman doing Googlewhack - a two word search query that only generates one result - but that’s not possible any more, because you just get pages of approximations, a glut of ads and an AI engine trying to come up with a plausible explanation of “Keynesian Gorilla” or whatever
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I have a few hours in Paris next month, between 3pm when the Eurostar arrives and I’ve checked into my hotel near Gare de l’Est and dinner at 7. What would you do?
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New post! A comparison of smash burgers from The Friendly (San Diego) and Whole Beast (Walthamstow)
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Whole Beast, Blackhorse Road and The Friendly, San Diego
Earlier this month I was lucky enough to eat probably the best burger I've ever had in my life. It was a smash burger, cooked quickly on a f...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/05/whole-beast-blackhorse-road-and.html
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Pete Brown
8 months ago
Hey everybody - go to Clitheroe!
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Long time no see, Bluesky! I've been on holiday. Here's a post about Le Manoir in Oxfordshire.
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Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Great Milton
I'm sure the Manoir (as I will call it for this post) can impress whatever the weather, but when the early summer sun is shining, and punter...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/05/le-manoir-aux-quatsaisons-great-milton.html
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The Onion
9 months ago
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/
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Kavey The Snow(o)man
9 months ago
Kavey Eats (my website) is 16 years old today! Want to help me celebrate? Please have a visit, browse, read a post or two, share on social media or if you find something you enjoyed reading, leave me a comment on it! 😁😁😁😁
www.kaveyeats.com
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New post! Seasonal British (occasionally Japanese-flavoured) food for not much money at the Duke, Henley.
#invite
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The Duke, Henley
It's coming up on a year since I was last in this part of the world, when I had a very lovely lunch in the sun at Dominic Chapman , then a b...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-duke-henley.html
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New post! The Cadogan Arms in Chelsea is decent enough, and close-ish to my house, so I rather liked it.
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The Cadogan Arms, Chelsea
There's no sign of a cost of living crisis on the King's Road, but then the people of Chelsea aren't known for their frugality. The Cadogan ...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-cadogan-arms-chelsea.html
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Bit of a long shot this perhaps, but does anyone have a restaurant recommendation for 45+ people in Paris?
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Hassinator
9 months ago
fucking hell those lamb chops.
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New post! Dastaan, where life-changing Indian food costs less than a London-Leeds train ticket.
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Dastaan, Leeds
Three down, one to go. My determination to visit all of the restaurants in this particular restaurant mini-chain - because, so far at least,...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/03/dastaan-leeds.html
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New post! A South-African led kitchen serving an estate-foraged modern tasting menu at Interlude, West Sussex
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Interlude at Leonardslee, Horsham
If there's one thing I've learned after nearly twenty years of writing about food in this country, it's that fine dining can happen pretty m...
https://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/2025/03/interlude-at-leonardslee-horsham.html
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Adam Schwarz
10 months ago
UK Prime Minister Starmer hugs Zelensky as he welcomes him to 10 Downing Street. This is how you welcome the leader of the free world.
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