Food

Right now, the hardest place to get a reservation for lunch or dinner in London might be this one: The Devonshire, in Denman Street, W1. I managed it ...

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A quality pub on the corner

In a comparatively new forecourt just north of Oxford Street, right by the Facebook offices, is Circolo Popolare, an exceedingly popular (as in its na...

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Quite a bit of fishy business

On a neighbourhood street corner in Islington, London N1, a particularly fine Indian eaterie has come to town. Thirty years ago it was a popular pub, ...

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A corner fit for a Prince

Fallow is a period of time when nothing much gets done. As a restaurant, Fallow is a place in London’s West End in which quite a bit of dining g...

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Fallow quite dear

A few years ago we went on a family holiday to Cancun in Mexico. We had a fabulous time, not least enjoying a few rounds of golf. It was the one and o...

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Getting Mexican in Camden

The following is a verse from a nonsense rhyme I learned as a kid growing up in the Peak District in Derbyshire:Up and down the City RoadIn and out th...

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The Eagle has lived on

Without leaving London, this little culinary trip is going to take in three distinctly different countries: Israel, Greece and Syria, beginning with t...

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