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It’s been another day of art and Italian food, this time much closer to home. Twickenham abounds with wonderful Italian restaurants, cafes and delis as I wrote in Twickenham’s ‘Little Italy‘ and Corto Italian Deli is a regular haunt of mine in Twickenham’s Church Street, the town’s prettiest road that lies just behind the Thames […]
Read MoreThe best things in life often come in small packages, I’ve found. I could come over all girlie on you and talk of diamonds and exquisite dark chocolate truffles. But my kind of thing is what I found at Bocca di Lupo today: glorious small plates of the most wonderful Italian food, followed by the […]
Read MoreWhen my friend Elsa suggested we met at Princi last night, I thought that was a great idea. I was introduced to this London branch of a Milanese institution by my friend Lucia last year (click here) and I’ve been there a couple of times with her, eating in the self-service area and having just […]
Read MoreI’ve been wanting to go to the Union Street Cafe since its opening last autumn but didn’t get my act together until Top Table sent me an email last week with an offer of an early evening spring menu for £19 for 2 courses; £25 for 3. I made a unilateral decision and booked it […]
Read MoreMy friends Kate and John told me they’d found this great restaurant-cafe in Walton Street recently, serving up wonderful Middle Eastern-Mediterranean food and they thought I’d like it and offered to take me there one Saturday for lunch. It’s an easy journey from Richmond on the District Line to South Kensington and today was a […]
Read MoreMy friend Elsa had noticed the Evening Standard was offering meal deals at a number of restaurants throughout January and suggested we take up one of the offers. There were some great places to choose from but some I knew already – like Quaglino’s and Cantina del Ponte – so I thought it would be […]
Read MoreI clearly remember my first cappuccino experience. And it was nowhere as romantic as Rome and the famous Caffe San’Eustachio. I was still at school, in my teens, and a family friend had told my parents about finding a cafe where you could have an authentic Italian cappuccino. The cafe turned out to be right […]
Read MoreWhen I stopped by at the lovely Ruben’s Bakehouse at around 8 am this morning, en route to pick up Jonathan, Lyndsey and Zeph the Puppy and drive to Kent to visit my family, work was still in progress in the Refettorio. I’d popped in to buy one of their wonderful sourdough loaves and a […]
Read MoreThere’s been a lot of good talk about Leon for some time, and then there are their cookbooks and the fact that they won Observer Food Monthly‘s best restaurant award six months after opening the first restaurant in 2004, so I guess I’ve been a bit slow getting to one. Though I could excuse myself […]
Read More* I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to add the Monmouth Coffee Company to my Coffee Hot Stops. Their first shop opened in Covent Garden in 1978 and was quite revolutionary. This was THE place to come if you were a serious coffee drinker. At the beginning they roasted beans they bought […]
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