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Article: Restaurant Spy; 'ROAST is in the Big Smoke of Charles Dickens, Walt Disney and Richard Curtis'.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2006
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Byline: TOBY YOUNG
Can there be a better site for a restaurant in the whole of London?
Roast is situated in the Floral Hall at Borough Market, the outdoor food emporium that's become a kind of Mecca for Britain's ever-growing population of epicures.
Sitting at one of the window tables, overlooking this bustling scene, you'd be forgiven for thinking that London is the most picturesque city in the world. This is the Big Smoke as depicted in the novels of Charles Dickens, the films of Walt Disney and the screenplays of Richard Curtis.
Roast, which opened in October last year, is the brainchild of Iqbal Wahhab, the restaurateur who ...