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[Uno]

Amy gave a few restaurant reviews for the London Evening Standard 'Metro' section back in the beginning of 2004 ...



Chips and all that jazz

Ben Sloan - Metro
Published: 15 January 2004


Soul-jazz singer Amy Winehouse may have been nominated for the Best Female Brit Award but her feet are still firmly rooted on the floor. She tells Ben Sloan how she loves tucking into tasty chicken at Nandos and getting her fingers greasy with traditional fish 'n' chips.


Nando's, 227-229 Kentish Town Road NW5. Tel: 020 7424 9363. Tube: Kentish Town

They do great chicken and you can refill your drink as many times as you want. That's a bit of a draw, really.
I love the way you can dress up chicken in so many different ways, and the salad in there is so nice.


Mango Room, 10 Kentish Town Road NW1. Tel: 020 7482 5065. Tube: Camden Town

It's a Caribbean restaurant, all West Indian food. I'm so boring, I always get the same thing everywhere I go, here I always have either jerk chicken or lamb with sweet potato rice.


All Bar One, 197-199 Chiswick High Road W4. Tel: 020 8987 8211. Tube: Turnham Green

I love their sausage and mash with onion gravy and butter for the mash; that's it for me. I'm so bad with the appropriate drinks for foods, but I'd have a JD and Coke.


Jamon Jamon, 38 Parkway NW1. Tel: 020 7284 0606. Tube: Camden Town

The food here is like tapas. You get all these pretty little dishes and you can pick at them all. As a smoker, my food has to appeal to me visually before I put it in my mouth; my appetite has to be fired before I eat anything.


The Seashell, 49-51 Lisson Grove NW1. Tel: 020 7724 1063. Tube: Marylebone

My favourite fish restaurant is actually in America, but in London it's The Seashell. It's the oldest fish and chip shop in London. I used to go to school at the top of that road, so every lunchtime there'd be 20 of us in there.


Amy Winehouse's single Take The Box is out now (Universal/Island). She is nominated for the Best Female Brit Award and plays the Jazz Cafè on January 27.

http://www.standard....zz-6965357.html

[melnyk]

Thank you, Uno!

[inwinoveritas]

thanks for the interview. the restaurants she descroibes sound very interesting to me, okay all with the exception of the last one, because i don#t like fish (but i guess, you can also order fries only) hope, they're still existing

[melnyk]

Nando's and Jamon Jamon are working, I saw them opened in September and December!
And it seems I remember Mango Room was working too, but I'm not sure.

[Cecilia]

Mango Room and The Seashell are still there as far as I know. All Bar One is a chain, I haven't been to the one she mentioned but there are quite a few of them in London and some more spread over the rest of the country, including one around the corner from where I work.