Cafe Melodrama

  Bab n Suul. It’s Okay. 25.3.25   1 Gerrard Place, London W1D 5PA.   The last time I went to a Korean barbecue place was a long time ago. I remember very little about it. Figured it was time to try another one. Food blogging is an odd sort of thing to do. On a previous trip to Leicester Square, I passed the Bab n Suul and it seemed like an interesting joint. I don’t recall what used to occupy that space in Gerrard Place, but I think it was a Chinese restaurant of some sort. I guess it’s part of the ongoing diversification of Chinatown.   As someone who’s only recently started a food blog, I find myself trying to figure out what the blog is for. One of the main reasons I decided to do it was to keep working on my writing. Blogging about food is challenging on the adverb front – I mean, how many ways can there be of saying ‘delicious’ or ‘disgusting’. There’s also the question of how does one fairly evaluate an eatery? Does one judge it purely on the foo...

  I hate Mondays. 10.3.25   Greedy Sheep. 8 Little Newport Street, London WC2H NJJ Opening Hours: 12:00 – 22:00 All dishes cost less than £20.       Greedy Sheep is a small and unpretentious noodle shop, somewhat on the outskirts of London’s Chinatown. There are a lot of noodle shops in the area but this one looked quite interesting. I liked the name; it had an uncomplicated pungent quality that befitted the establishment. It boasted of having the finest Chinese style lamb and beef soup. I thought it was a bold but reasonable claim to make. Noodle shops tend towards truncated menus, a few simple noodle dishes with rice ones as an alternative, simple starters and maybe one or two desserts for those with a sweet tooth and an inclination to prolong an already pleasant experience. It’s not a complicated formula and does not require a Michelin starred chef to execute. What could go wrong?     For starters, I went there on a Monday. A...