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 ...
Read MoreThere is inflation and then there is Pret a Manger inflation. Between August 2020 – which was about five months into the covid pandemic – ...
Read MorePaying and saving a pretty penny at Pret
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...
Read MoreQuite 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, ...
Read MoreA corner fit for a Prince
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...
Read MoreIt’s all Greek to me – which is wonderful
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...
Read MoreFallow 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...
Read MoreGetting 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...
Read MoreThe 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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