Results tagged “Fish”

WASABI
Rainbow sushi set, £6.95
★★★✩✩

IN A NUTSHELL
It might not be ideal but as a sushi fix this little tray of delicate chunks is fine to stop those rice shakes.

Customers at Jamie's Italian will be doing their bit for charity if they eat their fish.

The popular restaurant chain, which has an outlet in Canary Wharf, will donate £1 from every order of sea bass made from this month to the Jamie Oliver Foundation, which the celebrity chef started to educate and engage people with good food.

There's nothing cheesy about the latest planned addition to Canary Wharf's food offer - apart from what it sells.

Upmarket mozzarella bar Obika is set to open in the West Wintergarden later this year. It specialises in recipes based on Mozzarella di Bufala Campana.

Al fresco dining can be a struggle in London and with weather forecasters getting our hopes up, a summer of charcoal fuelled meals outdoors looked to be on the cards.

As June promised to be a scorcher, staff at The Gun must have been jumping at the chance to man the Blackwall pub's Portuguese style barbecue A Grelha.

WASABI
Hosomaki combi set, £5.95
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Delicious fish, prepared to a good standard, but there's little to really justify paying for this when there are so many similar, cheaper options

Fish fingers or a trip to the chippy are the limit of most people's efforts at a fish supper.

But there's no reason why Wharfers shouldn't seize the chance to learn more about the joys of the bounty of the sea, and the Billingsgate Seafood Training School, a stone's throw from Canary Wharf, is just the ticket.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

There are some aspects of London life that seem part of its very fabric. Its markets are known all over the world, and none is better known than Billingsgate. There are plans to change the way the market is run by the City of London Corporation, involving the revocation of porters' licences, with the threats of job losses and to the future of the market.

Workers at Billingsgate Fish Market staged a demonstration on Tuesday as part of a protest against planned changes they believe will destroy its reputation.

Market porters are trying to protect their historic role and were backed by MP Jim Fitzpatrick, whose Poplar & Limehouse constituency includes Billingsgate, along with London Assembly member John Biggs and ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone.

Its working day usually finishes as the first banker or broker settles in behind his Canary Wharf desk but Billingsgate Fish Market is as important to the British food industry as its neighbours are to the world of finance.

But how often do those captains of commerce venture across West India Dock to stock up on the bounty of the deep?

Canary Wharf has seen a glut of new restaurants opening in recent weeks but one Michelin-starred chef decided against moving to the area.

Atul Kochhar, who has a Michelin star for his Benares Indian restaurant in Mayfair, was poised to open in the Park Pavilion in Canada Square before the credit crunch made him change his mind.

There was a surfeit of celebrity chefs in Canary Wharf this week with Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein both here to promote their latest cookbooks.

While Oliver had Wharfers in a stew as they queued to meet him on Tuesday, laid-back Stein was here the day before to chew the fat with The Wharf about the whole TV cooking phenomenon.

INDIAN CUISINE
Memsaheb On Thames
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Establishment's golden reputation is justified by superior food, which supplies the vibrancy in otherwise bland surroundings.

The Four Seasons Hotel has a deserved reputation as one of the best hotels in Canary Wharf, popular with businessmen and celebrities alike.

But the luxury establishment in Westferry Circus hopes to tempt in hard-working Wharfers pushed for time with its recently launched menu, designed to provide healthy food at affordable prices.