Customer Reviews

Harden's London Restaurants 1998 (Hardens Guide)

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Refer to the description that Amazon gives you, "Concise and witty". They do mean CONCISE. The description of restaurants amounts to 1 or 2 sentences describing of each resturant. The description could be about the atmosphere, the reviewer's impression of the waiters, price of the food, or any other random topic the reviewer decides to comment on. There is no consistency on which topic is used for which restaurant. For me, it is useless, because it gives me no idea what's on the menu. They do categorize food by nationality, but that is still not enough information. Italian could mean spagetti and canned sauce or it could mean pumpkin ravioli, portabella mushrooms, balsamic vinegar, roast garlic and/or wood-fired pizza. French could mean heavy on sauces, creams and butter or it could mean nouvelle cuisine. The one good thing about the book is that it gives you maps of where the restaurants are. If you want to locate all the restaurants within a certain walking distance, this book would be good to have. I won't be packing it in my suitcase.

Good categorisation based on cost, location, cuisine types, atmosphere, service. I use it frequently. It doesn't give menus, but you can tell the class of food by price and the brief descriptions.