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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 19 May 2013 | 04:17 pm
It started with a sandwich. So impressed was I with an extremely tasty and unexpectedly cheap prawn baguette from Harrods Sandwich Counter that, when I got home, I decided to start a food blog. I alr...
McQueen 6 May 2013 | 06:07 pm
Ordinarily, a glitzy bar-cum-restaurant-cum-nightclub like McQueen in Shoreditch isn't the kind of place you'd find me having dinner. Aimed squarely at the kind of high-spending, hard-living City geez...
Brigade Bar & Bistro 28 Apr 2013 | 03:12 am
At risk of being accused of platitudinous middle-class hand-wringing - the dreaded #firstworldproblems - I've been thinking a lot lately about the ethics of eating out. This week The Trussell Trust a...
Nuremberg - A City Guide 18 Apr 2013 | 03:00 pm
Indelibly associated with the Reichsparteitag - Nuremberg Rallies - and the trials held there after World War II, Nuremberg in 2013 is a city mindful of its sombre role in history but not defined by i...
Balthazar 11 Apr 2013 | 07:34 pm
One question often asked of best-TV-series-ever-made Buffy The Vampire Slayer was how the citizens of Sunnydale, a town unusually prone to attack from vampires, demons and the occasional robot, seemin...
Brasserie Chavot 1 Apr 2013 | 03:20 pm
"I knew you would," a friend replied when I tweeted after dinner about how much I'd loved Brasserie Chavot, "it's very you." And it's true; Eric Chavot's new, eponymous brasserie on Conduit Street is ...
Mr Kong, Chinatown 31 Mar 2013 | 06:00 am
Restaurants in London's Chinatown, indeed in the Chinatowns of most world cities, tend to fall into one of two broad categories. There are those aimed squarely (one might say cynically) at tourists, o...
Champagne Brunch at The Landmark 18 Mar 2013 | 05:12 am
For all that it's increasingly hard to make money, let alone a living, out of this food-writing lark, it's certainly not without its compensations. An endless whirl of breakfast meetings and cocktail ...
The Dead Dolls Club 23 Feb 2013 | 04:29 am
Anyone who's had the misfortune to be in my vicinity when I've got on my soapbox about foraging will know that I think it's a bit of a con. Growing up as I did in the Dorset countryside, picking fruit...
Shoryu Ramen 10 Feb 2013 | 07:39 pm
I've lost count of the number of places I've walked into recently - shops being by far the worst offenders, but a fair number of restaurants and offices too - where no-one's said "Hello!" or otherwise...
