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‘Cafe’: Thessaloniki Review
Dir: Navid Mihandoust. Iran. 2023. 96mins This satirical tale of an Iranian director who is running a coffee shop while waiting to see if a jail sentence will be enacted at the same time as navigating his turbulent personal life may seem absurdist, but it is at least partially autobiographical. Director Navid Mihandoust began serving his…
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Bonsai Plant Kitchen, Brighton: ‘Definitely remarkable and unusual’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants
Bonsai in Brighton serves up the likes of vegan “sea bream” made with titivated pea protein and Mongolian “lamb” skewers with pickled shallot, though at some point in time, perhaps in a few decades, I hope to describe such things without fervent debate breaking out about the merits or otherwise of fake fish or meat,…
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Restaurant review: Belfast Asian eaterie lives up to the hype… and has given me a brand new go-to dish
Lamb Taka Tak Joris Minne Today at 10:15 Nu Delhi owner Naz Din looks like he stumbled randomly into the restaurant business a few days ago, amiable, Bollywood star looks, mildly distracted and exceptionally well dressed. Except that this easy charm is completely misleading. Because Nu Delhi just picked up Best in Northern Ireland at…
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Orphan’s Kitchen reviewed: Are the Ponsonby restaurant’s night moves up to scratch?
Home / Lifestyle 10 Nov, 2023 01:00 AM5 mins to read The culinary roulette of shishito peppers, from the menu at Orphan’s Kitchen on Ponsonby Rd, Auckland. Photo / Alex Burton You go your whole life without meeting a shishito – and then bump into hundreds of them in the same week. I can’t vouch…
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Albert Brooks: Defending My Life movie review (2023)
Reviews Matt Zoller Seitz November 10, 2023 Tweet Albert Brooks has been one of the giants of American comedy for half a century. “Albert Brooks: Defending Your Life” is a tribute to his talent and insight, directed by actor/filmmaker Rob Reiner, who met Brooks at Beverly Hills High School and has been his best friend…
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The Shadow of the Day review – old-fashioned romantic drama with war lurking on the horizon
Giuseppe Piccioni is the Italian director whose early movie Light of My Eyes I admired when it came to the London film festival over 20 years ago; somewhat unjustly, he never became a fashionable festival name, like a Sorrentino or a Guadagnino. Now he has made a really involving, melancholy story of prewar fascist Italy,…
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Eat. Watch. Do. — Chicago’s Michelin stars, ‘POTUS’ review
It’s Thursday, Chicago. A few Chicago restaurants achieved one of the dining world’s highest honors this week. The latest additions to the city’s Michelin-lauded restaurants were announced Tuesday and Indienne and Atelier earned their first stars, while Smyth was awarded its third star — the second restaurant in Chicago to have three stars, after Alinea.…
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Restaurant Review: Farina in the old Moto space is NYC’s latest great pizza place
The incongruously inviting Hamilton Avenue space enveloped by the rumble and the rubbish around the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has been popular for its pizza since 2015. First, as Pizza Moto, until earlier this year when the operation returned to the moveable feast from whence it began, and now as Farina, which opened in August. New York…
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The Keith Lee Food Review Vs. Atlanta Restaurant Controversy, Explained
What do you get when you combine one of the most beloved food reviewers on TikTok, Keith Lee, with a burgeoning restaurant scene that is famous for its fresh takes on southern food made by talented young chefs? Chaos apparently. Things got a little wild after Keith Lee rolled through ATL, Georgia, and had a…
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Delicious new N.J. Korean restaurant challenges local legends
Fort Lee and Palisades Park may have a stronghold on New Jersey’s top Korean restaurants, but Ridgefield is coming out swinging with newcomer, Karden 630. After running a successful catering business in Fort Lee, the Chung family opened Karden in April in the former Chan’s Dragon Inn space at 630 Broad Ave.