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For every writer/ blogger worth his salt and pepper, a restaurant review is an absolute must. A, its easy to write a sweet paragraph on your dinner (provided you ate well, of course), B, there is a inherent moral hazard hiding in your gut- no one can question your judgement. If they like the food, you say, "Toldyouso!", if they don't, you let your jaw assume a philosophical stance, adjust your eye-contact to the ceiling, and lament, "How quickly restaurants degrade! You make a place popular by raving about it, and the moment the bourgeois have frequented it, that's the end of it!" Works usually, unless that someone has instantly followed the aroma of your review, and proceeds to ask innocently, "But I went 2 days after you! That can't be true??!", to which your only getaway is to resort to, "Were you escorted to your table by a ugly short abusive waitress? NO?? Oh, they must have changed the service after my review!". C, everyone wants to read restaurant reviews rather than indigestible stories about your preferred method of dying. In short, to survive as a writer, I must eat my words and word my eats.

So, here's presenting to you, my definitive list of London's top 10 unmissable restaurants:

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