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Talisa Dean

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

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Talisa Dean writes bylined reviews for The Nudge, 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.”