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items: Best Indian restaurants in London
items: Best steak restaurants in London
items: Hoppily beer subscription review
items: Best of British beer subscription review
items: Brewgooder beer subscription review
items: BoroughBox craft beer and snack subscription review

Best Indian restaurants in London
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date: 2025-12-11T09:40:00.000Z
creator: Keith Kendrick
subject: London
subject: Restaurants
subject: London area guides
description: See our top picks for the best Indian restaurants in London. All-day Bombay cafes serving bacon and egg naan rolls, to Indian-style cocktails and bowl-shaped pancakes
encoded: Looking for an Indian restaurant in London that isn't your average curry house? From regional Indian street food at Masala Zone to popular traditional Bombay cafe empire Dishoom. Here are the top best Indian restaurants in the capital... Next discover Bangladeshi food: how to cook like a local. Now find out how to celebrate Holi. For something extra special, try one of the best chef's table experiences in the UK, then find out the best female-owned restaurants in the U.K. Now discover the best Japanese restaurants in the UK, the best dining experiences in London and the most romantic restaurants in London. Best Indian restaurants in London Brigadiers, City Brigadiers isn’t your typical City restaurant. It isn’t your typical pub, either. It’s a pulsing combination of both – a warren of rooms tucked inside Bloomberg Arcade, some all chatter and screens, others set for quieter dining. And with food from JKS Restaurants, the group behind Michelin-starred Gymkhana, expectations run high – and deliver. We began with the original BBQ butter chicken wings. New dishes have been added to the menu but these creamy, smoky, finger-licking starters are the essential order. Guided by the team, we then went for a tumbling mountain of prawn, soft-shell crab and squid Tellicherry fry with tomato pachadi – crisp, peppery and lifted by sharp chutney. A chunky skewer of Afghani lamb ribeye kebab followed, juicy and aromatic with cardamom and charcoal. For mains, the Sikandari kid goat shoulder came off the bone with a nudge of the fork, its spiced crust balanced by lacha paratha and sweet onions. The wood-roasted sea bream Pollichathu, wrapped in banana leaf, opened in a fragrant puff of curry leaf and coconut. And the dal makhani – thick, buttery, slow-cooked – tied everything together. Dessert is a nod to comfort: gulab jamun crème brûlée – super-sweet deep-fried milk balls nestling in a satisfyingly tappable caramel custard. Drinks are cold and calculated to cut through the spice: a …

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Best steak restaurants in London
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date: 2025-11-06T13:04:49.000Z
creator: Keith Kendrick
subject: London
subject: Restaurants
subject: London area guides
description: Want to know where to go for the best sirloin, the juiciest ribeye and top quality wagyu? Read on for our picks of the best steak restaurants in London.
encoded: Want to know where to go for the best sirloin, the juiciest ribeye and top quality wagyu? Read on for our picks of the best steak restaurants in London. From old-school steakhouses to Argentinian classics and modern Japanese grilling, foodies are spoilt for choice with options for the next meat-feast. For more like this, check out our reviews of the best brunch in London, the best outdoor restaurants in London or the best London pubs for food lovers. Best places to eat steak in London Vivat Bacchus, Farringdon Ever tried a zebra stokkie? In Afrikaans it means ‘little stick’, a type of biltong, the air-dried cured meat that’s a South African classic. Zebra, along with beef, is part of the theatre of the biltong trolley at Farringdon steakhouse Vivat Bacchus, rolled to your table and sliced to order. It’s powerful with spices and vinegar, chewy and deeply satisfying. The trolley is the star starter, a tongue-tingling warm-up for the main attraction, the heritage braai selection. The equivalent of a UK barbecue, braai is more than a cooking method – it’s an event for bringing people together over food. The braai here offers a well-balanced spread of meats cooked over flame, designed for two to share. Juicy sirloin, meltingly soft cola-cooked pork belly, peppery boerewors (sausages) and ostrich fillet. If you’re not familiar with steaks from the big bird, think venison – incredibly lean and mildly gamey. Pot-baked mealie bread, fiery chakalaka relish and sweet-spicy monkey gland sauce are the go-to accompaniments, along with “flippen lekker” (very tasty) chips. As you’d expect, South African wines dominate the list, so ask your sommelier to match a glass with each dish. Finish with peppermint tart, a creamy dessert like a tiramisu. vivatbacchus.co.uk The Guinea Grill, Mayfair At one of Mayfair’s most characterful pub-restaurants, the meaty mains beg to be experienced, so we plumped for beef, Guinness and oyster Pie (to share) to kick off proceedings (though the devilled…

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Hoppily beer subscription review
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date: 2021-06-08T13:45:28.000Z
creator: Keith Kendrick
subject: Drink
subject: Reviews
description: Support small craft breweries with the Hoppily Craft Beer Club – read our full review of this monthly beer subscription.
encoded: Essex-based Hoppily is on a mission to ‘champion the unusual and the underdog’, seeking out little-known, adventurous craft breweries across the UK that produce strong beers with bold flavours. Its proud boast is: ‘No supermarket beers: if a beer is featured in a supermarket, at Hoppily we won’t stock it individually online or in our store. Simple.’ As well as a widely stocked bottle shop and gift shop, Hoppily offers the Hoppily craft beer club monthly subscription. There are a variety of rolling subscription options, ranging from eight (£30 a month) or 10 beers (£35 a month), to the ‘Hoptacular’ beer box (£48 a month), which contains 10 premium beers with stronger-than-usual ABVs. For an extra £2, you can also add a snack to your box. Beers are selected from a wide variety of small craft brewers, including Pentrich Brew Co., Hackney Brewery, Leigh-on-Sea Brewery, Portobello Brewing Company and One Mile End Brewery. Our case is made up of eight interesting cans and bottles: Orbit Rhubarb Sour (4% ABV) C84 No.24 (7% ABV) Firebrand Graffiti IPA (5% ABV) Bulk Powers IPA (5.1% ABV) Hammerton Groll pilsner (4.7% ABV) Signature Brew Good Vibrations APA (5.2% ABV) Bishop Nick Tattoo’d New Zealand hopped red ale (4.9% ABV) Bermondsey Best bitter (4.4% ABV) Packaging is minimal – there are no frills or tasting notes, just cans and bottles of interesting beers. Delivery is free and if you become a member you also get a 10 per cent discount for purchases in the online bottle shop or gift shop. Overall, this simple beer delivery is great for beer explorers. If you want to try something new and support small craft brewers in the UK, give this a whirl. Available from Hoppily, from £30 a month

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Best of British beer subscription review
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date: 2021-06-02T14:49:01.000Z
subject: Drink
subject: Reviews
subject: Beer
subject: Drinks
subject: review
description: Discover new British breweries with a Best of British beer subscription – read our review of this regular beer delivery
encoded: The Best of British beer subscription club is the longest-running in the UK, having been established in 2011 by husband-and-wife Will and Gill Sherwin in Newcastle-under-Lyme. It delivers cases of handpicked 500ml bottles to ‘wave the flag for independent breweries’, along with a comprehensive leaflet containing tasting notes and background on the beers, a pub quiz and information highlighting the beer of the month. Each month, members receive a beer delivery of six or 12 different beers – many of them award-winning and all from lesser-known microbreweries. Ordering online is simple and straightforward. There are a variety of options, including the Beer for a Year club (12 x 500ml bottles in four cases through the year for £155), six-month beer club (case of 12 x 500ml per month for £225), three-month beer club (case of 12 x 500ml per month for £120) or a pay-monthly beer club (12 x 500ml for £40). There's also a craft cider option, and you can subscribe to six bottles instead of 12. You can choose a style of beer to suit your taste, too, from pale and golden, to dark or a mix of both – the club’s most popular option. The first case comes with a beer glass, plus there’s a 10 per cent discount on additional sales throughout your whole membership. Our case contains 12 bottles selected from 20 brewery partners. Best of British chooses a range of styles to reflect the season, and since its launch has featured over 500 breweries. Every beer in our case is a surprise and delicious in a distinctive way. These are: Fraoch (5% ABV), a traditional light amber Gaelic beer brewed in Scotland since 2000 BC from Williams Bros Sunshine (4.2% ABV), a hoppy, floral ale that is a Taste & SIBA award-winner from Monty’s Brewery in Montgomeryshire Moose River (5% ABV), an American IPA from Great Western Brewery near Bristol Hollyrood (5% ABV), an IPA from Stewart Brewery in Edinburgh – voted Scottish Brewer of the Year in 2018 and 2019 Old Prickly (4.2% ABV), a full-flavoured golden ale…

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Brewgooder beer subscription review
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date: 2021-05-24T11:41:03.000Z
creator: Keith Kendrick
subject: Drink
subject: Reviews
description: Subscribe to a regular beer delivery whilst donating to charity – read our full review of the charitable Brewgooder beer subscription
encoded: Brewgooder is ‘the beer club that’s life-changing’ with profits going to projects providing clean water to communities in Malawi, who have little access to healthy drinking water. The company was created by Alan Mahon after picking up a parasite from contaminated water whilst travelling in Nepal, which taught him the importance of clean water. With its partner, Charity Water, Brewgooder’s profits have funded 140+ projects, unlocking 100,000,000 litres of drinking water and empowering the lives of 156 million people. For every can or pint sold, the company say they will provide 100 times that amount in clean water. The website is easy to navigate and offers a variety of flexible packages for the beer subscription. You can make a one-off purchase or arrange for beers to be delivered every seven, 14 or 28 days. There are three price points: £20 for 12 330ml cans, but buying in bulk will save you money - 24 cans costs £33 and 48 costs £66. Each offering is accompanied by statistics about how much clean water you’re helping to provide with your purchase: 12 cans = 396 litres of clean water; 24 = 792 litres; and 48 = 1,584. There are three brews on offer, which you can order as individual or mixed cases. Lager (4.5% ABV) is Brewgooder’s signature beer. It has a biscuit-citrusy aroma and tastes crisp, lemony and refreshing. Session IPA (3.7% ABV) is light and sharp, with a taste of grapefruit and pineapple. Tropical Pale (3.9% ABV) is full of mango, pineapple and passionfruit flavours with a light bittersweet finish. The packaging is simple and recyclable. There are no extra tasting notes or incidentals, but each can contains a short story about the company’s mission. Verdict Amazing value and wonderfully tasting light and refreshing beers. Perfect for summer. We all know that beer makes you feel good, but these beers give you an extra glow of satisfaction knowing that with every sip you’re helping to change someone’s life. Buy now

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BoroughBox craft beer and snack subscription review
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date: 2021-05-24T11:05:50.000Z
creator: Keith Kendrick
subject: Drink
subject: Reviews
description: For a beer delivery with added snack matching, we tested out the BoroughBox craft beer and snack subscription
encoded: The Craft Beer & Snack subscription box (£34.99) comes from BoroughBox, an online marketplace that connects small artisan producers with customers, describing itself as ‘the solution to your foodie cravings. A space for everyone who deserves a little treat’. The craft beer and snack subscription offers a delivery of six beers (selected from IPAs, ales, pils, blondes, porters and seasonal brews) and six snacks to match the beers ‘from cracking crackling and other meaty morsels to ale-flavoured popcorn’. The BoroughBox website is comprehensive, comprising a whole range of artisan offerings (worth a browse in itself) so you’ll have to search to find the beer, but once there you can choose from a one month taster box or a three-, six- or 12-month subscription. Each month you will receive: six craft beers (two each of three types) and six beer snacks (typically 35g each). Spend £75 for free standard shipping. The boxes are shipped in eco-friendly BoroughBox branded kraft boxes. BoroughBox works with a number of London craft breweries, including Crate, Five Points and Brick. In our box, we received: Yeastie Boys Bigmouth Session IPA 4.4%: a light and easy drinking straw gold ale from New Zealand. Jiddler’s Tipple Everyday Pale Ale 3.8%: a citrussy, malty pale ale that has been awarded two gold stars in the Great Taste Awards. It’s made by Jacob Liddle, who made beer at his home in Turnpike Lane, north London, for years before scaling up his home-brew operation with the south London brewery, By The Horns Brewing Co in 2019. First Chop Pop 5.4%: American-style IPA, brewed in Manchester, with a distinctive fruity-bitterness from the use of orange peel. Snacks: Serious Pig Crunchy Snacking Cheese; Made for Drink Chorizo Thins Overall verdict Refreshing beer and salty – snacks what’s not to like? Great for a sunny afternoon or get-together with friends. Buy now

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