Latest restaurants announced:<\/p>\n
Goodbye Cafe Rouge! (I won’t miss you personally…) and hello Byron!<\/strong> It’s still a chain, but it’s definitely a step-up, and frankly they serve craft beers which is more than most pubs in Chiswick!<\/p>\n It’s fair to say that Union Jacks<\/strong> had many admirers and many dissenters. Although I was in the former camp, we obviously didn’t number enough, as their doors closed last month.<\/span><\/p>\n In its place will open\u00a0Jackson & Rye<\/strong>, a “sexy NYC style brunch spot” and restaurant. After having heard a great amount of excitable buzz on Twitter I then read a few\u00a0<\/span>scathing reviews like this from the Guardian<\/a>. Let’s say I shall reserve judgement until they open, then I’ll give you the Chiswickish Verdict<\/strong>!<\/span><\/p>\n Finally Pho<\/strong>, which opened this weekend (8th March 2014). A chain restaurant serving decent Vietnamese street cuisine. Brave enough to take the more “sleepy” end of the High Road in place of the old Chiswick Cafe (and former very-well-known-local-spot Adamou greengrocer), I’m certainly pretty happy to see them as it’s near my place. Check out my review of Pho on this site…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Latest restaurants announced: Goodbye Cafe Rouge! (I won’t miss you personally…) and hello Byron! It’s still a chain, but it’s definitely a step-up, and frankly they serve craft beers which is more than most pubs in Chiswick! It’s fair to say that Union Jacks had many admirers and many dissenters. Although I was in the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}