Joseph's reviews
Review of Say Pasta
12 Jul 07, 09:31
Load of Bols 
I hope that Say Pasta survives - although it is a little too hot to eat in the slightly cramped restaurant, it is a fantastic takeaway option for fans of Italian food. For about a fiver you can get a mountain of succulent Bol sauce on pleasingly unsoggy pasta - if you want pasta, fast, it is either Say Pasta or the inferior oily stuff they do at that Italian place by highbury and Islington Station. Lovely helpful staff and Say Pasta are really trying, but it will need to develop a takeaway/delivery niche and fast if it is to survive.
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Review of Lord Clyde
12 Jul 07, 09:26
Best pub in London. There I said it. 
Nestled in an inaccessible alley off Southwark Street, 'The Clyde' is a hidden gem. A good old fashioned London Boozer, the Clyde's friendly staff serve all the usual booze to a variety of regulars, builders and local office workers. They also serve lovely homemade hot food - I had one of the best BLTs I have ever tasted there, as well as the occasional stew or casserole. The smoking ban seems to be confusing some of the old boys, but with a small outside seating area everyone should be happy.
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Review of Bastille
12 Jul 07, 09:21
Ooh La La! Le Gateau in the Chateau 
My french is not existent, and gleaned mostly from watching 'Allo 'Allo and Piorot (who was Belgian) so I will not be using any Gallic colloquealisms to describe this resturant. Suffice to say, in bull dog english, it is bloody marvellous.
Affordable, high quality French cooking done right before your eyes, with lovely smells coming from the open kitchen. I had light crispy Calamari followed by some of the best fish I have ever tasted. Yum. Yum.
Whilst La Bastille's very French use of cream and salt may put off the health conscious - well, good - there will be all the more left for the rest of us.
Affordale high quality food served by lovely bubbly waitresses. What more do you want? Well? Answer me.
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Review of Rough Cut
12 Jul 07, 09:06
Take the short cut
Despite having a name which veers dangerously towards being a yoof version of the 'Curl Up And Dye' school of hairdressing, essentially Rough Cut is a cheap, friendlier version of Tony and Guy.
I paid about £30 for a mens haircut which I couldnt imagine those GAP advert extras that Tony and Guy employ doing any better.
After the usual triple shampoo/head massage ambiguity you are offered decent coffee and good reading material whilst your locks are shorn. They usually won't ask you if you are up to anything nice tonight, or where you are going on your holidays - but the staff are chatty if you want a good ole' cockney chin wag about how expensive everything is now and how worrying about the War on Terror is giving you split ends.
Save your money and your bus fair - try Rough Cut once and you won't be disappointed.
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