Dim Sum, Spice and Noble Beasts ; Dishing Up the First of a Two-Part Review of New Dining Experiences, Our Critic Focuses On British, Indian and Hotel Establishmentsrestaurants of 2004 Part One

Evening Standard - London › December 22, 2004

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A TRIUMPH of hope over experience - Samuel Johnson's observation on a hastily contracted second marriage - might also be applied to some of the many restaurants that have opened this year.

Is it a record number in 2004? It could be, complete, as it is, with that little flurry of December launches when the builders hurry to finish in order to leave for a month in The Maldives.

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Dim Sum, Spice and Noble Beasts ; Dishing Up the First of a Two-Part Review of New Dining Experiences, Our Critic Focuses On British, Indian and Hotel Establishmentsrestaurants of 2004 Part One

A review of Ristorante Fiore, which Claudio Pulze has just opened on the site of the original Petrus in St James's, will have to wait until January - at the time of writing I haven't tried it - but there is more than enough to be getting on with.

Indeed there is so much that This Year in Restaurants is in two parts.

The second half appears next Wednesday ...

STARS OF THE EAST A few years ago the Michelin guide at last saw fit to sprinkle a couple of t...

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