THE STORY BEHIND THE PROJECT

Welcome ! First things first, let me introduce myself: I’m Valentine Benoist, founder of My Hungry Valentine, the London-based online restaurant guide.

After a few years living on the Eurostar, I settled down back in London in 2015 after a detour to Paris, working for Le Fooding restaurant guide. I spend more or less my life eating and drinking my way through London, or writing about it for various publications.

At that time, I couldn’t really find any food guide comfortably settled in its time, covering London. So it all started with myhungryvalentine.com website, to share my restaurant reviews with the French community struggling to know where to dine out.

The pitch? Anything but the sad pub, or the trendy-bling banker’s haunt... Last but clearly not least, all reviews are written fully independently and anonymously, at our own expense.

One thing leading to another, the website grew bigger, the public widened and became more international, while events started highlighting the up-and-coming chefs.

À TABLES LONDON, THE PROJECT

In 2017, the project of a bilingual print edition of the guide simply became obvious, gathering the 50 essential restaurants making the taste of London.

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120 pages of straight-to-the-point bilingual reviews, splendid pictures you’ll drool over, but also a super practical organisation by neighbourhood.

À TABLES LONDON is a beautiful book to keep, browse, leave casually lying around your coffee table and give to everyone. The ultimate guide to (re)discover one of the most exciting gastronomic scenes in the world.

WHO’S GOING TO USE IT ?

First, why not you? But also your globetrotter auntie, your bon vivant cousins, your aesthete mates, those who always take you out to rubbish restaurants, your city break buff pals… And of course the whole world, for all the Secret Santas seasoning the month of December!

But more widely:

The Londoners lost in the constant manoeuvring of just opened / already closed, totally in / almost out restaurants. La crème de la crème of timeless eateries, in a word. For the other, newer places, there will always be myhungryvalentine.com.

The Frenchies wanting to live their urban getaway across the channel to the fullest, as real locals. The touristic guide dusted off, with lots of precious insider tips and the must-eats that will wash away forever the clichés about British food. Au revoir greasy fish & chips and sloppy beans on toast, bonjour modern British cooking and the very best of cosmopolitan creative cuisine.

WHAT’S IN THERE?

- 120 pages 100% dedicated to London food, from the unforgettable tasting menu to the ace sandwich.

- 50 reviews of the essential London restaurants.

- A fully subjective list of our top 10 must-eats.

- 5 cool illustrated city maps to locate the restaurants by neighbourhood.

- A bilingual French-English edition.

- An A5 format to take it with you everywhere.

- A quality print on a delicate uncoated paper.

All of this before everyone else and for a very cool price, as we offer delivery fees especially for the campaign!

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WHEN WILL YOU RECEIVE IT?

As soon as our campaign ends on 31st October, we will wrap the guide up, launch the printing process and lovingly prepare the boxes to send your books and their pretty goodies directly to your place for early December 2017… The perfect excuse to order a stack of Christmas presents in advance!

À TABLES LONDON, the essential restaurant guide by My Hungry Valentine

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