Leander Dias, Author at SaltyCritic

Review: Coal Office Restaurant, London

I grew up eating the food of the Middle East. I recall fondly the roasting smells of skewered meat on grills, the sight of…

I wrote most of this piece earlier in the year. Sat on it for a while since I’d been busy with my move…

I was hoping on my visit to Kin et Deum that by some cleverness of seasoning, some added culinary eccentricity, that the vegetarian dishes…

Another day, another brasserie. This time at the Rosewood Hotel, its own British brasserie called Holborn Dining Room. Brasserie is a French word,…

French cuisine is glamorous. Not essentially so, but symbolically such. One may argue that this is because of the prettiness of their dishes,…

I feel for celebrities. The incessant publicity, invasions of privacy, criticisms for being human and all the other general intrusions that make up…

For a small town, Bungay has a fair few restaurants. You’ve got your standard chippy, your Chinese, your kebab shop, but you’ve also got…

Our train arrived into Ljubljana in the latter part of the morning. The trip was not too long, so we were not too weary by…

I walked from Piccadilly Circus, through the busy afternoon streets of central London, a busker’s painful rendition of Kodaline’s All I Want, a…

The pieces put on display at the Leopold museum in Vienna were some of the most remarkably beautiful works of art that I…