My friend Sharon came up with another great suggestion of a place for us to meet last night: Claro, in Waterloo Place in St James’s in Central London, which runs from Pall Mall up to Piccadilly Circus. Claro serves Mediterranean food with Middle East influences and is housed in an attractive historic listed building with […]
Two good friends, who know I love Italian food, alerted me to Grace Dent’s orgasmic (her word!) review of Bancone in the Guardian last week. I immediately searched online for the review, of course, and was instantly determined to go – soon! And fortuitously, it happened that I would be very close in just a […]
I was meeting my friend Nicola in Islington to see The Writer at the Almeida Theatre; a play that has divided critics from those who 4* love it (Guardian and Telegraph) to The Times who 1* hated it. We tried to go with an open mind but unfortunately the further into the play we got, […]