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Cheese and Biscuits
19.02.2025
The food at Lita is very nice. I'm saying that up front because I worry that the list of things I didn't like about the place threatens to o...
I rarely make any journey without the promise of a nice meal. This applies to short breaks, long-haul holidays and day trips alike - I have ...
I don't know about you, but the concept of a 'vegetarian restaurant' brings to mind a certain set of expectations, not all of them good. I s...
If it's true that some of the country's most exciting and dynamic country gastropubs are the product of their surroundings - the lush farmla...
23.01.2025
Quite often all you need to know about a restaurant is the smell that greets you as you walk through the door. The smoke and fat of a busy o...
18.01.2025
Hove is a very acceptable place to spend a day. I was last in the area when visiting the Urchin , a seafood-specialist gastropub and microbr...
14.01.2025
The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out less than 50% of the usual cost is to go...
06.01.2025
It was Trishna in Marlebone, all the way back in something like 2009, that opened many Londoners' eyes - not least my own - to the possibili...
31.12.2024
Despite spending the first 20 years of my life about 100m up the road from the Hightown Inn (then the Hightown Hotel), I never really consid...
23.12.2024
On the shortest day of the year, in the middle of the gloomiest and wettest of England's gloom and wet, I thought it might be fun to review ...
17.12.2024
Although my useless photos hardly do it justice (let's just get that out of the way from the start), Crispin at Studio Voltaire is a lovely ...
22.11.2024
To a visitor from lands afar (me) who sees this part of the world in little two-week periods twice a year, Jeune & Jolie feels like it did a...
05.11.2024
I don't usually like to do invited reviews back-to-back, so this was supposed to be a post about a lovely Catalonian restaurant called El Mo...
01.11.2024
It's a funny old part of town is Earl's Court. Not quite Kensington, not quite Chelsea, not many reasons to visit (certainly not since the c...
30.10.2024
As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the world that are somewhat better-represented...
25.10.2024
Most visitors to the Lamb Inn will approach from the car park and be greeted with the sight pictured above - an achingly cute thatched count...
22.10.2024
London has never been the kind of place where you can just pick a restaurant at random and have at least a decent dinner. There are too many...
12.10.2024
I often like to look up the situation of restaurants I'm heading out to on Google Streetview, just so I know what to expect when I get off t...
07.10.2024
Some restaurants just make it look so easy, don't they? The menu at Camille is so enticing, with unusual eye-catching ingredients prepared i...
01.10.2024
As I have surely said on this blog plenty of times over the years, I will never go to any holiday or short trip without at least one meal bo...
16.09.2024
Hainan is an island off the south coast of China about the size of Vancouver Island - that makes it bigger than Sicily and Sardinia and twic...
10.09.2024
There are so many different types of restaurant, so much variety in the ways and manner and styles that we eat out, that sometimes it's amaz...
04.09.2024
There are a few pubs in London notable for their hosting of fledgling food businesses, giving talented but cash-strapped teams a chance to t...
31.08.2024
A large menu is rarely a good sign, and I have to admit a part of my heart sank when I sat down at the Blind Bull and counted 12 items in th...
12.08.2024
In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought experiment. If there was no such separati...
24.07.2024
For someone who spends an unhealthy amount of time thinking about and reading about restaurants, I consider it a personal failing that I did...
13.07.2024
Dave Carter, a big friendly giant of a man with a completely impenetrable Barbadian accent, began his London restaurant journey at Smokestak...
09.07.2024
The first thing we were given to eat at 64 Goodge Street was a little plate of truffle-cream gougères topped with shaved Comté. These turned...
30.06.2024
For better or worse, every moment spent eating out in London is an education, and on a warm Tuesday evening last week I went to Knightsbridg...
13.06.2024
Since the closure of Le Gavroche, Pied à Terre is now the London restaurant which has held at least one Michelin star for the longest time. ...
30.05.2024
This isn't going to be a very long post because, well, it wasn't a very long lunch. Sometimes you want to spend all day cooing over a tastin...
22.05.2024
Continuing a recent theme , here comes along another example of excellent restaurant pedigree producing a fantastic place to eat. The Buxton...
21.05.2024
As soon as the sun comes out on a bank holiday, it feels like half of London heads down to the south coast, and Brighton in particular. And ...
15.05.2024
There are few things more important in the success of a restaurant than pedigree. If you are able to launch one good restaurant, you're more...
07.05.2024
As any self-respecting 2024 London restaurant-goer knows, the trend in Asian cuisine is towards regional specification. You're not just Thai...
27.04.2024
Despite Camberwell's increasing reputation for all kinds (and all budgets) of great food, it still seemed unlikely that this bare-bones pub,...
12.04.2024
There are lots of good Chinese restaurants in the Holborn/Bloomsbury area of London. Most seem to have popped up in the last decade or so, I...
05.03.2024
When I was first out of university, trying to decide what to do with my life, and with no long term plan other than the fact I knew - eventu...
22.02.2024
Beautiful 15th century Lambeth Palace is a strange London landmark - widely recognisable, with a stately position Thames-side and passed by ...
07.02.2024
Many moons ago I made a short-lived attempt to do some shorter-form reviews of sandwich shops, street food joints, delis and the like, place...