David Ellis is the London Standard's restaurant critic and Going Out editor. He writes regularly about eating and drinking, and is a keen practitioner of both
David Ellis is the London Standard's restaurant critic and Going Out editor. He writes regularly about eating and drinking, and is a keen practitioner of both
The room is glamorous, the food is excellent, and the price? It’s from an entirely different postcode, says David Ellis
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Cottage pie tacos might not be everybody’s cup of tea, but they’re coming nonetheless
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From a Rogers’ Bucks Fizz to Guinness bombed with coffee, David Ellis runs over his favourite liquid cures for a night gone too far
Shakers at the ready: it’s time to mix-up a liquid cure to the morning after, says David Ellis
Jason Atherton put everything on the line this year. He tells David Ellis why — and whether he thinks it will pay off
Raise a glass to what’s gone and what’s to come
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For a little extra festive inspiration, this is what the Standard’s Going Out team will be eating and drinking over Christmas
We went, we saw, we drank — now you can too
David Ellis luxuriates in a time gone by at Jermyn Street’s grandest resident
Welcome to Alfies, where one stall might offer a perfectly preserved vintage dress in midnight silk, and the next a display of taxidermy
In among all the nonsense surrounding pints of the black stuff, having a “skimmed” or “semi-skimmed” pint is the latest order
It sits with its gaze over green fields smudged with yellow
London offers restaurants of varying quality, and of varying interest and originality, writes David Ellis
David Ellis basks in the incandescent brilliance of this Peckham bar