There is inflation and then there is Pret a Manger inflation. Between August 2020 – which was about five months into the covid pandemic – ...

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...