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Wong Kei, Chinatown, London
I was asked for a recommendation for an accessible restaurant in Chinatown (London). We are now in the month of March where its not warm enough to eat outside yet. I say this because many restaurants in Chinatown had set out tables outside since Covid, making them ‘accessible’ if you’re okay to eat alfresco. It […]
Maracuya/ Rico Sabor restaurant, Greenwich Peninsula
It was a sunny Sunday, I decided to choose a restaurant by the river. It was suggested to me actually. The weblink I was given signaled it was wheelchair accessible and LGBQ+ friendly (?!). We were a party of four from different parts of London so the proximity to Jubilee Line was useful. We were […]
Hotpot at Haidilao, 02 Arena
The last time I posted here was in 2014, ten years ago. My friend encouraged me to continue inspite of the gap – the previous restaurant does not even exist now. Reading Jay Rayner’s article in the Guardian where he spoke to Jamie Hale about the impossibility of finding out the accessibility of restaurants also […]
Pot Pie at Le Pain Quotidien, St Pancras
I went up to London for a meeting – I was hungry by the end of the afternoon because I did not get to have lunch, all the pubs we checked near Grays Inn Road proved inaccesible. So we ended up at St Pancras because a colleaque fancied the ambiance there. ‘Let’s pretend we ‘re […]
Yaki sushi noodle bar: Hainanese Chicken Rice
To be honest, I ‘ve heard for some time that a sushi restaurant is coming to Coventry. I was waiting for it to happen. Previously I had to go to Birmingham for my Japanese food fix. And then, passing at Pool Meadow by chance, I realised that it WAS opened. However looking at the menu, […]
Yauatcha, London Soho for dim sum
I’ve heard loads about Yauatcha – the ultimate place to eat dim sum, posh, the cool place to hang out. When Naomi suggested we went there for a dim sum lunch, I happily accepted. It meant going down to London but since it was to replace a trip to Paris I didn’t mind (I had […]
China Express: String beans with Szechwan peppers and finely minced pork
Its been some time since I ‘ve been to the China Express. Somehow Chinese cuisine has become more and more like cuisine from mainland China, lots more Szechwanese hot spicy food, with chillies and Szechwan pepper. People I asked said it was due to the influx of Chinese students. It used to be that that Chinese […]
Carribean soup with dumpling
“How can you eat soup when it is such hot weather?” I was asked. I love soup, I grew up in a hot country drinking soup almost daily. Recently, I discovered Vincy Kitchen, Market Way, Coventry market. Fantastic change from the ubiquitous sandwich. Anyway I thought I d write about it. There are not many […]
Grilled seabass at Nazraj, Coventry
Friday morning I was told about Nazraj Signature Brasserie at a meeting and by 5.30 pm, I was really hungry because I had been rushing all over and not had time to eat properly. And I was in the neighbourhood but alone. Never mind I shall give myself a treat. It was understandably quiet at […]
Why the eclectic gourmand?
I’ve been doing research on restaurants lately – on their accessibility but I cannot deny I am very interested in good food not necessarily fine dining but good food. I would not call myself a gourmet but my palate has been influenced by a multicultural background and having lived and travelled in different countries, hence […]
The Eclectic Gourmand 