One is regularly reading about how tough it is for restaurants in the present financial climate, what with increased costs for the proprietors and the...
Read MoreFounded in the 1940s, Le Caprice was acquired and relaunched in 1981 by two restaurateurs, Jeremy King and Chris Corbin. It became established as one ...
Read MoreLe Caprice est renaitre
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 MoreA quality pub on the corner
There 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...
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