Top Tables: Eddy Temple-Morris
When he's not spinning tracks on Xfm DJ Eddy Temple-Morris loves trying out Thai, Indonesian and Japanese restaurants. He tells us about the restaurants that put him in a spin.
Esarn Kheaw, 314 Uxbridge Road W12. Tel: 020 8743 8930. Tube: Shepherd's Bush
It's a north-eastern Thai restaurant and the north-east is where the best food comes from. You can get proper Thai sausages and sticky rice and you eat with your fingers. It's cool.
Poon's, Whiteley's Centre, 151 Queensway W2. Tel: 020 7792
2884. Tube: Bayswater
Poon's is an amazing space to eat - it's huge, like an old-school ballroom. The dim sum comes really quickly and if you know what you're ordering there's some incredible food. You can have barbecued chicken feet, which some British people would baulk in horror at but they're marinated in different spices and chilli and are really tasty.
Makan, 270 Portobello Road W10. Tel: 020 8960 5169. Tube: Ladbroke
It's an Indonesian/Malaysian type restaurant that does traditional Indonesian fayre. It's good for getting food on the hoof when you're down the market. There are all these local characters down there - the last time I went I met Don Letts.
Yo Sushi! 52 Poland Street W1. Tel: 020 7287 0443. Tube: Oxford Circus
I love raw fish even more than cooked fish and James Hyman, my partner in crime on Xfm, practically lives in Yo Sushi! on Poland Street - they all know him in there and he gives them tapes and music in exchange for a break on the price. It's a ritual before the show on Friday to go to a record shop in the area and then have sushi, we just love it.
E&O, 14 Blenheim Crescent W11. Tel: 020 7229 5454. Tube: Notting Hill Gate/Ladbroke Grove
My wife was the Thai chef there - it's a nice place to eat and there's a strip of mirror that goes round the restaurant so you can discreetly nose at what everyone's eating. It's south-east Asian food with a stylish Australasian twist. It's expensive and you can't get a table for three weeks - you'll often find Robbie Williams, Nicole Kidman or Ruby Wax in there.
Eddy Temple-Morris presents The Remix on Xfm every Friday at 9pm. The Remix 2 album is released this week on Virgin.
