Return to The Barbary

May 1, 2025.Reading time 9 minutes.

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 […]

Travel Gourmet’s Favourite Things in London’s Covent Garden

August 3, 2016.Reading time 16 minutes.

A SMALL HISTORY Covent Garden is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas of London, full of shops, cafés and restaurants, theatres and the famous Royal Opera House. The area spreads north of The Strand from Drury Lane westwards to St Martin’s Lane and up to the top end of Shaftesbury Avenue. There has […]

Restaurant Review: The Barbary

August 2, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

The Barbary opened a few weeks ago to a fanfare of excited reviews. Even before it opened there was excitement, for The Barbary is ‘little sister’ to the wonderful The Palomar, and so expectations were high. Pretty much without exception, the reviews have been great so I was keen to go there soon. However, it was Annie who […]