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Category: Lee Hefter

March 31, 2016September 4, 2016

Spago … quality food served too quickly

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How many hoots do I give? – at a glance
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Types of food

American
Austrian
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Cakes
Chinese
Danish
Dutch
English
European
French
Greek
Icelandic
Indian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
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Special posts

How many hoots do I give? – at a glance
Dining Owl Awards
Vegetarian dining
Pre-theatre dining
Drinking Owl
Theme park dining
Bread and wine: on or off the table?
Beware the main course dip
Fine dining hallmarks

Restaurant reviews

28-50 degrees
2veneti
701West
AG’s
Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester
Alle Corone
Amare Beach
Amarone
Andaz Tavern
L’Anima
Aqua Nueva
Aquavit
The Araki
Arancino
Arbutus
Ard Bia at Nimmos
Arpege
L’Astrance
Au Petit Riche
L’Autre Pied
Baccano
Balcon
Balthazar
Baltic
Bar Boulud
Barrafina
Bath Priory
The Bazaar
Berners Tavern
Bice
Biffi
Bird Land
Black Iron Burger
Blue Water Cafe
Boat
Bocca Di Lupo
Botanist
Bouchon
Boulestin
Boutique de qualité et salon de the rosage
Brasserie Chavot
Brasserie Gallopin
Brasserie Zédel
Bravo 24
Bread Street Kitchen
Bror
Cafe Il Balcone sul Lago
Cafe Murano
Cafe Sacher
Cantina Laredo
Catal
Catch
La Cave
Chapters
Char
Chef’s Table
Le Ciel
The Cinnamon Club
Cip’s Club
City Social
Clos Maggiore
Coast
Comerc 24
Core by Clare Smyth
Corner House
Coya
La Dame de Pic
Les Deux Salons
Ding Dong
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
Duck and Waffle
Eataly Alti Cibi
Engawa
Fashion It
The Fat Duck
Fera
Ferraro
Fischer’s
Fitzbillies
Le Florentin
The French Table
Frenchie
Galvin at Windows
Galvin La Chapelle
Gaucho
Gauthier Soho
Le Gavroche
Gerbeaud
Gerstner
Gilbert Scott
Ginza Sushi Ichi
La Goletta
Gora Kadan restaurant
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
Grain Store
The Greenhouse
The Grill at Marbella Club
Gucci Museo Caffe
Guy Savoy
Gymkhana
Hakkasan
Harbour60
Ham Yard Restaurant
Hawksmoor
Helene Darroze
Helios
Hibiscus
HKK
Hoofdstad Brasserie
Hotel du Lac
Hotel Florence
House of Tides
Humble Grape
Ristorante Il David
Imago
Ivy Market Grill
J Sheekey
Jaleo
Kappa Sakamoto
Kissa Tanto
Kitchenette
The Knolls
Kokkeriet
Laduree
Latium
The Ledbury
Li Veli
The Lighthouse
Lima
La Locanda
De Luwte
M
Magnolia Bakery
Manatus
Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons
Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley
Marseille
MASH
Maze
Mercato
Messina
Miller and Carter
Minetta Tavern
Mistral
Momofuku Ko
The Moon
Murano
New York Grill
No. 97
Nobu
Obica
L’Ombre del Leone
OX
Pasta e basta
Peace and Loaf
Pelagos
Per Se
La Pergola
Petrus
Picasso
Pied a Terre
De Pisis
La Plage
Pollen Street Social
Polpo
Le Pont de la Tour
Principessa
Procacci
La Punta
Ristorante Quadri
Quod
Rabot 1745
Reflections
Le Relais de Venise
Rouge Tomate
Route
Roux at the Landau
Rumsey’s Chocolaterie
Salt
San Carlo Cicchetti
Sarabeth’s
Savini
Scully
Sea Containers
Searcys St Pancras Grand Restaurant & Champagne Bar
Seryna
Sexy Fish
Signorvino
Sketch (The Lecture Room and Library)
Skylon
Sohe
Soleo
Spectrum (formerly Librije’s Zusje)
Spago (Hawaii)
Spago (LA)
Spring
The Square
Steve Wynn Steakhouse
Sticks ‘n’ Sushi
Restaurant Story
Stripsteak (Michael Mina)
Suisse
Sushisamba
Sushi Mizuki
Sushi Nakazawa
The Swan at Tetsworth
T bar
Tahini
Tartufo
Taverna
Tempura Mizuki
Terrazza
Texture
Toca
Trademark Taste + Grind
Trakol
Trattoria
Tredwell’s
La Trompette
Il ristoranti Trussardi alla Scala
Umu
Victoria and Albert’s
Vun
The Waterside Inn
Wild Honey
The Wine House
Restaurant Yonemura
Zerocinquantino
Zuma

Chefs

Matt Abe
Carles Abellan
Mark Amos
Jose Andres
Andrea Aprea
Francesco Apreda
Mitsuhiro Araki
Julien Asseo
Jason Atherton
Kenny Atkinson
Greg Austin
Dale Bainbridge
Pascal Barbot
Emma Bengtsson
Andy Bennett
Arnaud Bignon
Raymond Blanc
George Bloor
Jean-Philippe Blondet
Heston Blumenthal
Ettore Bocchia
Jesper Boelskifte
Anna Bolz
Jonny Bone
Ho Chee Boon
Oliver Boon
Claude Bosi
Daniel Boulud
Elwyn Boyles
Sterling Buckley
Francis Cardenau
Claudio Cardoso
Phil Carmichael
Tom Cenci
David Chang
Eric Chavot
Corey Chow
Dave Coulson
Josh Crain
Gus Crosby
Andy D’Amico
Helene Darroze
Anthony Demetre
Francesco Dibenedetto
Daniel Doherty
Alain Ducasse
Mark Edwards
Angelo Ercolano
Antonio Favuzzi
Diego Ferrari
Matthew Fleisher
Dan Fletcher
Frederick Forster
Mark Froydelund
Kenji Fujimoto
Pierre Gagnaire
Juan Galvez
Chris Galvin
Jeff Galvin
Alexis Gauthier
Silvio Giavedoni
Gabriel Gonzalez
Jose-Luis Gonzalez
Brett Graham
Adam Gray
Sean Gray
Skye Gyngell
Jonathan Hardy
Angela Hartnett
Valentin Hay
Lee Hefter
Eric Herbitschek
Alberton Hernandez
Raimund Heuser
Francois Hiegel
Richard Hondier
Graham Hornigold
Roland Huber
Rachel Humphrey
Scott Hunnel
Tong Chee Hwee
Yoshinori Ishii
David Johansen
Sarah Johnson
Eli Kaimeh
Erion Karaj
Ryuta Katori
Thomas Keller
Joel Kissin
Jayden Kresnyak
Masaki ‘Masa’ Kudo
Pip Lacey
Hector Laguna
Marty Lau
Justin LeClair
Alessandro Lozzi
Leo Maple
Martin Major
Marcellin Marc
Virgilio Martinez
Jarad McCarroll
Andy McFadden
Andy McLeish
Michael Mina
Sam Moody
Luis Montesinos
Toni Morwald
Guenter Moser
Rakesh Nair
Daisuke Nakazawa
Sam Nutter
Manuel Oliveri
Robert Ortiz
Frank Pabst
Ashley Palmer-Watts
Danny Parker
Alain Passard
Thomas Piat
Marc Piquet
Wolfgang Puck
Gordon Ramsay
Michael Reid
Robert Reid
Henrik Ritzen
Derrick Roberts
Simon Rogan
Lorenz Raich
Alain Roux
Albert Roux
Michel Roux
Michel Roux Jr
Robin Saint-Paul
Ryuta Sakomoto
Jean-Pierre Sanchez
Ross Sandonato
Guy Savoy
Sidney Schutte
Masaru Sekiguchi
Julian Serrano
Karam Sethi
Paul Shearing
Bryce Shuman
Dan Silverman
Vivek Singh
Clare Smyth
Elliot Spurdle
Gregor Streun
Owen Sullivan
Agnar Sverrisson
Koichi Taira
Stephen Toman
Barry Tonks
Mitch Tonks
Richard Turner
Alex Tyndall
Fabrice Uhryn
Richard van Oostenbrugge
Gerard Virolle
Victor Wagman
Paul Walsh
David Walzog
Andrew Wandless
Andrew Ward
Marcus Wareing
Scott Wheatfill
Sam Williams
Masayasu Yonemura
Stephan Zoisl

Managers and maitre d’s

Abbie Atkinson
Franco Becci
Sam Berry
Jean-Claude Breton
Alexandra Brito
Adrien Boutet
Stephen Cachard
Sam Calderbank
Francesco Cappucci
Antoine Chretien
Luca Cinacchi
Mathieu Colombet
Arnaud Debelmas
Nicola Dell’Agnolo
Arnaud Demas
Robert Dokler
Pierre Dumoulin
Antonino Giacolone
Jean-Luc Giquel
Daniel Greenock
Raimond Gutschera
Ben Hofer
Mat Horvath
Olga Ivancheva
Daniel Kapp
Sara Kent
Emmanuel Landre
Massimo Lanfranchi
Sam Lucas
Diego Masciaga
Benoit Massenneau
Matthew Mawtus
Poppy Mayer
Mourad Mazouz
Darren McHugh
Claudiu Moldovan
David Moore
Chantelle Nicholson
Pierre Noublanche
David Oseas
Aaron Pannell
Damien Pepin
Silvia Perberschlager
Ursula Perberschlager
Israel Perez
Charles Peto
Christian Pollock
Martin Repicky
Christophe Rohat
Rob Rose
Sandra Schaeuffele
Will Smith
Sascha Speckemeier
Laura Stephenson
Kelly Willett

Sommeliers

Massimo Alonzo
Dannis Apeldoorn
Isa Bal
Christopher Bothwell
Anna Botting
Fred Brugues
Adrien Butko
Zack Charilaou
Jean-Marie Contestin
Michel Couvreux
Roberto Della Pietra
Michael Deschamps
Louis Dufouleur
Philip Dunn
Gareth Ferreira
David Galetti
Arnaud Gobuet
Yuri Gualeni
Chloe Helfand
Miguel Hernandez
Masataka Ikari
Alexandre Jean
Pascaline Lepeltier
James Peter Lloyd
Vincent Lopresto
Rachel Macalisang
Marco Marcuzzo
Francesca Martusciello
Luke McInnes
William Mulholland
Daniel Murray
Stefan Neumann
Stephen Nisbet
Lorenzo Palmero
Maurizio Palomba
Phil Park
Christine Parkinson
Patrick
John Peiser
Romain Perroches
Paul Peterson
Nicolas Pierron
Carlos Pinto
Marc Piquet
Nico Rebesco
Clement Robert
Raphael Rodriguez
Andreas Rosendal
Zack Saghir
Michael Schwab
Chantal Serrano
Sunaina Sethi
Sammy Shafi
Robert Smith
Agnieszka Swiecka
Willem van de Geer
David Vareille
Seamus Williams-Sharkey

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