Smoked by AI · London · people

Talisa Dean

Critic · Journalist — London restaurants and street food, weighted to east London and to the cheap end that most critics skip.

writes bylined reviews for The Nudge, the same desk as `hattie-lloyd`, which publishes its scoring policy on every review page and states that scores are not for sale. Her pieces name the build of a dish and the price paid.

Their own reviews and picks.

Their own judgment, in their own words, by the piece it appeared in.

• The Nudge, 'Pockets' ↗their review · 2026-07-20
  • PocketsLondon Fields

    “The arch has given Pockets enough space to build an in-house bakery to make their signature stone-baked, fluffy, cloud-like pitas, and a takeaway hatch to sling them from.”

• The Nudge ↗their review · 2019-07-23
  • Lounge BohemiaShoreditch

    “Cocktails at Lounge Bohemia are like the food at Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck. They have a couple of traditional classics, but for the most part they arrive smoking or bubbling from glass pipes, upside-down lightbulbs, test tubes, or teapots.”