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...

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, ...

I know we are well into September (OK, it’s almost October) and I have this year had two Greek dining experiences. One was rather more prolonged...

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...

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...

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...

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

I have mentioned in a previous blog that Heddon Street, London W1, just off Regent Street, was the location for the photo-shoot that provided the cove...

OK, apologies for the hackneyed pun in the title but this Lebanese restaurant (its modest facade in shown on the home page) really is called Irresisti...