Category: RECOMMENDED
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Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
This was our last full day in London before we heade off to Barcelona. We didn’t want to be out late for dinner since we had to pack, so I looked for someplace for lunch and found this place (plus we still wanted to go to the National Portrait Gallery). We got a late start
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Pavyllon London
Trisha had been wanting to try this place for late breakfast and we were game. I made a reservation at the counter (we always like to see the cooking action) and seats at the corner so the 3 of us could all speak to each other more easily. It was nice that they had perfectly
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Bao
This was a recommendation from my coworker (I think she went to the Soho location though which is the one listed in the Michelin Guide). We waited for them to open which was good because it did end up filling up fairly quickly (was packed by the time we left). They had a special called
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Santa Nata
One of my coworkers had recommended this place and we stumbled onto it while we were wandering around Borough Market. These custards much more creamy and not quite as eggy and I absolutely loved them. https://santanata.com/
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Wolfsbane
This is the new restaurant from the husband and wife team previously at Lord Stanley. I didn’t want to try them at their very first week so I waited all the way until their second week to book this reservation (I know, I am so virtuous with patience, haha). We had only eaten once at
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Capa
This was the only Michelin starred restaurant in the area near Disney other than Victoria & Albert’s (on waitlist) without having to go into downtown Orlando. It was a plus for me that it was Spanish cuisine. I took my Uber straight from the conference to the restaurant in Golden Oaks. Golden Oaks turned out
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Cotogna
Jacob scheduled a dinner meeting with a vendor. Even though Dreamforce is going on, he was able to get us table since his cousin works at Quince. We ordered a bunch of starters to share – the Heirloom Tomato Caprese, Squid, Cranberry Bean & Calabrian Chili, Bluefin Tuna Crudo as well as a Porcini Mushroom
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Selby’s
Vendor dinner in the private room upstairs. Glasses of Billecart-Salmon champagne to start. Hors d’oeuvres were quite good. The caviar on the blini featured caviar hybrid kaluga (my favorite) from Petrossian. Other hors d’oeuvres included one made with sunchoke, one with beef tartare and a gruyere puff with truffle (don’t recall where it was from).
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Goldilocks
We had to eat at Goldilocks and Tita Pye was joining us. so we ordered a lot of food – Sinigang, Barbeque Pork, Pancit, Garlic Fried Rice, Crispy Pata, Beef Kare-Kare, Crispy Pusit, Fresh Lumpia, Halo-Halo, and Leche Flan. I ate a bit of everything of course. My favorite was the Crispy Pata thanks to
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Din Tai Fung
We ate here last time we were here with my parents in January and wanted to come back again, this time with Trisha (Ginny was meeting up with her friends and doesn’t like dim sum anyway). We started with a couple of the salads – Seaweed & Beancurd Salad and the Cucumber Salad. I like