A London food blogger is on a mission to eat in a restaurant from every country in the world - without setting foot outside the capital.
Charlie Thornberry, 37, who lives in Hammersmith, has so far visited more than 50 restaurants, each serving food from different countries including Georgia, Azerbaijan, Macedonia and Iran.
Mr Thornberry, who works as a consultant for an aviation company by day, started his blog, called Restaurants Of The World Unite! — or ROTWU! for short— just over a year ago.
His mission statement is: “To see if I can find a restaurant for every nation in the world, in London.”
He plans to write a book of his rather left-field write-ups — which he stipulates are not reviews.
He said: “There are about 200 countries in the world and I think there are about 120 countries easily findable in London. Each restaurant is blogged about, but I’m not a reviewer.” Some of his favourites so far include Donde Carlos in Goldhawk Road for Colombia and Tayyab’s in Whitechapel for Pakistan.
Suggestions for restaurants serving less widely known cuisines can be tweeted to @CharlieDelMonte.
Here's A Taster
Somalia: The Village, Hammersmith “I’ve taken a deep interest in Somalia ever since Captain Phillips did so well. I haven’t seen it, but the market has spoken and so the instant (+3 months) it hit the screens I found myself at The Village.”
Sweden: Stockholm Restaurant & Deli, Mortlake “We were excited to see it was Crayfish Season. I thought it was like Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, but in fact I wasn’t to see any graphic footage of hundreds of crayfish pinching a child.”
