Joanna's reviews
Review of Pizza Express
24 Apr 08, 14:10
One of the best Pizza Express restaurants! 
Pizza Express is a brilliant restaurant - I love their menu and the style of the kitchen being on show so you can see them making your food. I also like the fact they refresh their menu quite often so it doesn't get boring and there are new things to choose on the menu.
The starters are lovely, everyone knows their famous dough balls and garlic butter starter! They recently took the "savoury breads" side dish off the menu which was disappointing as it was a brilliant side dish, so tasty and perfect to share. The mains are good too, lovely thin base pizza with tasty topping. Their new "Roman" base pizzas have much bigger, thinner and crispier bases and are great if you are really hungry - you can now "upgrade" any standard pizza to "Roman" for £1 extra which offers more choice. Deserts are fab too now they have added to their menu.
I like this particular branch because the service is brilliant, staff are very friendly and the food seems to be nicer here (more generous portions, hotter, fresher). It is also in a really nice location and if you are really lucky you can nab a seat outside in the summer. It gets very busy on weekends and Friday nights so get there early, try to book a table or expect to wait for a table.
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Review of Maison Blanc
16 Apr 08, 13:09
Lovely cakes, friendly staff 
A lovely place to have tea, cakes and good old gossip with friends! It is a little more expensive here than other chain cafes but the quality is superb. The staff are very friendly and always clearing and cleaning tables (in some cafe's they leave the dirty stuff on tables for ages so you end up sharing your table with the previous occupants leftovers).
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Review of Giraffe
14 Apr 08, 13:24
Menu not suitable for all 
This is a nice restaurant but the menu won't please everyone as there isn't much plain food on this menu. I've had a superfood salad here which was very nice and also the burgers. I've had to send burgers back for being undercooked and even when asked to be well done they were pink in the middle. We ended up getting birgers charred on the outside but still a bit too pink for comfort inside. Wouldn't rush back again because of this, but wouldn't say no if I was going with friends who really wanted to go there.
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Review of Toffs
10 Apr 08, 16:50
Toff Nosh!!
When I’d read an article in a newspaper about the best fish and chip restaurants in London and featured Toffs, I had to try it! I’d driven past there many times before and seen people queuing up well outside the shop and had always wondered if it was really worth it. I ate in the restaurant rather than getting take away and I can honestly say it was the best fish and chips I’ve ever eaten in this country. It’s a bit pricey compared to your normal chippy but when you taste the food you’ll know why – it’s so delicious! The portions are also massive - when I finally admitted defeat it looked like I’d hardly eaten anything as the piece of fish was huge. If you sit in the restaurant you can also get fish grilled rather than battered and it’s really nice to have that choice. I’d recommend this to anyone and everyone as the ultimate fish and chips!!
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Review of La Porchetta
10 Apr 08, 14:24
This little piggy....
La Porchetta is Italian for "little pig" and that's exactly how I always feel after eating there! This is an amazing restaurant and after you’ve dined here you will get that feeling that I can only describe as one you get when you’re on holiday and have found a real gem of a restaurant where the food is good, plentiful and very reasonably priced. The portions are massive and prices so reasonable, the service is also brilliant. The atmosphere is always quite buzzing and it’s also nice to see the pizza being prepared and baked in an open “bar” section of the restaurant near the door – watch them fling that pizza dough in the air! Be prepared to queue up on Friday nights and the weekend if you haven’t booked a table, it is also quite noisy on these nights as it is always fully booked. The pasta is lovely, I recommend the home made, fresh lasagne which takes 20 minutes for them to prepare and cook (they do warn you about the wait). Pizzas are massive, one is enough to share between two people. I haven’t had desert there yet but have heard that it is also just as good as everything else on the menu.
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