Evening Standard, 28 May
David Sexton finds authentic Japanese cuisine at Gary Yau’s Aaya
Aaya is a surprising room for this seedy area. It’s grand, the ceilings high and coffered, a Japanese ambience projected by bamboo screen effects up above. There’s slightly thuddy ambient music, slick modern furniture and lots of staff — including a pair of entirely unemployed bouncers on the door. The staff, moreover, are dressed in strange billowing white robes and harem pants and are not Japanese. Downstairs, a big sushi bar, equally empty on our visit last week, looks more the business, less nightclubby.
Aaya – Evening Standard review in full >>
Metro, 27 May
Marina O’Loughlin finds the food at the Chicago Rib Shack “ghastly”
Our waitress is hysterical in every sense. If she's not wildly gesticulating her excitement that we're at her table, she's wrapping polythene bibs – emblazoned with the legend Bone Appetit – round our necks, tying them in a nice bow. These atrocities seem to be going down well with fellow diners. They even wear them on the long trek to the loos. Sadly, her enthusiasm doesn't extend to our order. I want a small version of a salad as a starter (it's a menu option, honest, I'm not going all egg-white omelette on you) but this throws her. 'You want Caesar salad,' she beams.
Chicago Rib Shack – metro review in full >>
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Bloomberg, 23 May
Richard Vines finds high quality food at cheap prices at Cha Cha Moon
Cheap and eats are two words that rarely belong together in the world of London restaurants, where quality comes at a price and even junk food can be expensive. So Cha Cha Moon verges on being a sensation by allying good cooking, friendly service and an attractive dining room with the kind of prices you might expect at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet or a fast-food joint with golden arches and lousy burgers.
Cha Cha Moon – Bloomberg review in full >>
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