Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
There’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 […]
Read MoreLast night was my Mother’s Day Eve celebration with my son: he had tickets for us to see La Boheme at the Royal Opera House and suggested we eat first in one of our favourite places, Wahaca, in nearby Chandos Place. Neither of us had been there for a while. Part of the problem has […]
Read MoreMy friend Lucia from the London Italian Language Meetup group wanted to introduce me to Princi, a panetteria – bakery – on Wardour Street in London’s Soho. Princi opened last summer and, Lucia told me, sells pizze al taglio – pizza by the slice – and filled focaccia, cakes and pastries just like in Italy. Well, how […]
Read MoreYes, I know it was only ten days ago that I was writing about my first visit to Bill’s in Richmond – in fact, my first visit to any Bill’s, although I’d heard good things about them – but they liked my post about lunch so much they said they’d love me to come back […]
Read MoreThe Tas chain of Turkish restaurants has been a family favourite for about ten years – going together or individually with other friends. A particular favourite is Tas in The Cut to have a good-value set menu early evening before going to either The Old Vic or the National Theatre, but I like the Bloomsbury […]
Read MoreBill’s is a very welcome new addition to Richmond’s choice of cafes and restaurants, occupying a prime location right by Richmond Bridge. I’ve watched the building being transformed for months but although Bill’s opened a few weeks ago, I only made my first visit at lunchtime today. I hadn’t been to any Bill’s before but […]
Read MoreKopapa – Maori for ‘a gathering, to be crowded, a building to store food’ – is one of New Zealand chef, Peter Gordon‘s restaurant’s. Often known as the father of fusion food, I’ve long been excited by his cooking – as seen on TV or read about – though I’d never been to one of […]
Read MoreI love the Bloomsbury area of London. It’s the literary romantic in me. Just as I like to think of Sartre and Hemingway when sitting in a Parisian cafe, walking through Bloomsbury will make me think of Virginia Woolf, the artist Vanessa Bell, and all those other writers, artists, philosophers and intellectuals who made up […]
Read MoreAnnie and I have been getting a bit more adventurous when we meet up since I’ve started the blog. Instead of going back to our usual haunts, we now like to regularly try somewhere new. I’d seen Brasserie Joel mentioned a few times and I looked it up, wondering at first if there was some connection to […]
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