Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
My friend Sharon proved to be a source of great restaurant recommendations again, having suggested Delamina Townhouse as a place to meet up last night. There are three ‘Delaminas’ – Delamina East in Shoreditch, Delamina in Marylebone, and the Townhouse in Covent Garden, which is where we met last night. Housed in a Grade II […]
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I’d only been to The Barbary once before and was quite surprised when I checked on this blog to find it was as long ago as 2016 – a few weeks after it opened. As ‘little sister’ to the wonderful The Palomar – one of my favourite restaurants – and receiving great reviews, it couldn’t […]
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I was lucky with the weather again. Just as the sun shone – albeit on still an icy cold winter’s day – when I headed into central London for The Nutcracker last week, the almost constant grey skies parted yesterday to reveal another gloriously blue sky for my trip to London’s Fitzrovia. My friend Sharon […]
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‘A wonder to behold’ Telegraph ‘A joyful, bravura piece of stagecraft’ London Evening Standard ‘A magical revival’ The Times ******** My eldest grandson Freddie (9) is showing an interest in theatre, which is wonderful, and a few weeks’ ago I promised to find out what was on at […]
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It had been a long time. I could hardly believe when I checked the date of my first visit to The Palomar on the blog that it had been in December 2014. I went a second time a couple of years later with friends and have always meant to go back. But it didn’t seem […]
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Finally, I made it. Getting to eat at Trullo has literally been years in the making due to a couple of abortive attempts before. But when my lovely Italian friend Lucia and I were deciding where to meet up, she travelling from north London, me from south-west, Trullo seemed like a perfect option. So, a […]
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The National Portrait Gallery has been a favourite gallery of mine for years and I recently renewed my Membership now it’s reopened after three years of major refurbishment. I used to be there so often that it became very familiar and now I’m trying to adjust to finding my way around the new layout and […]
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It’s almost exactly a year since I last went to Chichester. I know it’s a very English thing to do, but I couldn’t help but compare the weather: the bright, warm sunny days a year ago, and the cold, very windy and wet days on this trip. I thought I’d gone prepared, taking rain gear, […]
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It started with Ben (6) coming back from school a couple of weeks’ ago and wanting to tell me they’d been learning about Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney in school that day. As he started a drawing, reproducing for me the Lichtenstein painting they’d be studying, he recognised ‘The Splash’ on the front of a […]
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I saw Greg Marchand, chef/owner of Frenchie on BBC TV’s Saturday Kitchen last month, in Christmas mode and making a rather wonderful stuffing for chicken. I looked up his restaurant on my iPad and made a note that I must visit sometime. Then serendipity stepped in soon after and in an exchange of emails with […]
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