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Welcome back RGL fans!

This week's featured article is Maramia Cafe, W10 5PR, a Palestinian restaurant in Maida Hill. The outside uses the internationally-recognised font of Middle Eastern eateries everywhere, and they've decorated the inside with lots of paintings and photos evoking the region too. It's been around a while: we have reviews from 2011 and 2018, both positive.

Our two new articles are for K's Spice in Erith, a Nigerian restaurant for when you find yourselves in Erith. If you need to look up where that is on a map, then may I venture to suggest you may never find yourself in Erith. The other new article is The Black Bull, a pub in South Ruislip, trad but not bad. It has carpets!

Updated articles are Itadaki Zen, the vegan Japanese place near Kings Cross (we suggest you go at lunchtime), and The Village Inn in Belvedere, which isn't all that far from Erith.

Finally, one reported closure is of Chennai Dosa in Tooting.

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St Gabriel Ethiopian Delicatessen, Finsbury Park, London N4

Evening all, I hope those of you who attended Croydon Fun Weekend enjoyed yourselves!

Our featured article this week is for Finsbury Park's St Gabriel Ethiopian Delicatessen, a small cafe serving some flavourful Ethiopian stews and 'nicely sour' injera.

There are two new articles: Dosa N Chutny, a bright orange South Indian restaurant in Croydon which has mislaid the letter 'e', and Dans Le Noir in Clerkenwell, an experimental restaurant that has mislaid the light switches. You eat your dinner in pitch blackness! It sounds intriguing - click through for our reviewer's experience.

Finally, there's an update for the Maramia Cafe in Maida Hill following a visit. Was the arayes as good as the mezze was on our 2011 visit? Indeed, could *anything* be as good as that mezze?

katstevens

Afternoon everyone!

This week's featured article is for Gojo, an Ethiopian bar and restaurant near Ladbroke Grove. If you wend your way down the rather precarious staircase, you'll be rewarded with all manner of lovely-sounding things to go with your injera, including gomen wot, misir wot and shiro wot. Captain Sensible would be delighted*!

Oui Madame in Stoke Newington is now Oui Monsieur! Honorifics aside, no other changes are apparent. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose! Finally, Portal in Clerkenwell closed earlier this year.

The RGL blog will return after the May Bank Holiday - see you then.

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Big update this week, mainly thanks to Oddbins. Anyway, here we go...

Our featured article is Tram Stop, CR0 6RD, which is not in fact a tram stop but is right next to one (Addiscombe tram stop that is). It's a small coffee shop and cafe. It's child-friendly, and offers newspapers and bookswap books. The food is seasonal and good too!

Two new articles are: Magma, a small Ghanaian restaurant in Thornton Heath with a fine palaver sauce; and Gojo, doing Ethiopian food in a North Kensington basement, better than it sounds.

Four reported closures we've caught up with are: the Marylebone High St branch of Nicolas wine shop; the Barnes branch of Spirited Wines; Just Falafel in Covent Garden; and Japanese restaurant Kibou in sunny Wimbledon.

Those Oddbins renamings (generally from Spirited Wines or Nicolas) are:

* the Oddbins Beer Shop in Blackheath;
* the Notting Hill branch;
* the Wimbledon branch;
* the Kew branch;
* the Baker Street branch;
* the the Crouch End branch; and
* the East Dulwich branch.

katstevens

Hello RGL crew!

This week's featured article is for the Red Lion in Isleworth, a pub with a whole bunch of interesting ales for you to try. They've got a pub dog AND a pub cat who both like Rick Astley.

Our new articles are located in West London this week: the Thatched House is a Young's pub in Hammersmith with a decent macaroni cheese and an open fire, and the Garden Bar is a bar with a garden in Notting Hill, which also features automatic mayonnaise.

There's a significant update to the Sovereign of the Seas, a Wetherspoons pub in Petts Wood. If you don't know anything about Petts Wood, the pub has a handy guide to the history of the area.

Chung Viet in Deptford has closed (for hygiene violations, so no great loss, it seems), and so has the Whitechapel branch of Mirch Masala (albeit temporarily, following a fire).

ewan

This week's featured article is Sagar, W6 9JT, a vegetarian Indian restaurant in Hammersmith. I've been there and can recommend it.

New additions are: The White Swan, the only pub near Brent Cross (but thankfully an alright one); Vegetarian's Paradise, a bhel poori house near the Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury; The Bricklayers' Arms, a pub in Beckenham; and The Garden Gate, a pub near Hampstead Heath station.

Permanent closures are: Coffee Republic's branch in Beckenham; and LiquidNation, a theme bar under the railway lines at Ladbroke Grove, which has probably been closed a while.

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Image © Kake

This week's featured article is Yellow House Bar, SE16 2UE, a restaurant/bar located in former pub premises opposite Surrey Quays Station.

It has a proper wood-fired pizza oven, and also does pretty good brunch.

Recent additions to RGL include Halfpipe in Maida Hill, Chinese Family in Greenwich, Simon The Tanner in Bermondsey, and Brick Box in Brixton.

One reported closure: Princess Royal in Croydon.

kake

Image © Kake

This week's featured article is Kazan, SW1V 1DW, a Turkish restaurant near Victoria Station. It's not the cheapest, but the quality is good.

(Apologies for the recent break in service — we're back now.)

Recent additions to RGL include Maramia Cafe in Maida Hill, Uncle Lim's Kitchen in Croydon, Spiceland in Croydon, and Royal Delight on Tower Bridge Road.

We also have several closures to report, sadly: Miso on Haymarket, More on Tooley Street, New Loong Kee Cafe in Camberwell, Kastoori in Tooting, Chakalaka in Chiswick (and probably the Putney one too), Temple Bar and Beaten Path in Walworth, and Rootmaster off Brick Lane.

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Entries tagged with w10

New featured article — Maramia Cafe, Maida Hill, W10

New Featured Article - St Gabriel Ethiopian Delicatessen, N4 2DW

New Featured Article: Gojo, W10 6HJ

New featured article — Tram Stop, Addiscombe, CR0

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