Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
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 […]
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My friend Kate and I have a long-standing preference for eating Italian when we meet for lunch. It began years ago when we, for a couple of years or so, met once a week to practise our Italian. We then had a trip to Rome. Since then, I have to confess the Italian speaking has […]
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Regular readers will know that Aldeburgh has become a favourite place for me to head to for a short break. It’s an easy and not too long drive and, most importantly, I’ve come to really love it there. I first went in June 2022. I wanted to explore Suffolk, a county I didn’t know at […]
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I’ve been to Brindisa’s branch in Richmond a number of times since my first visit in August 2022 for lunch. It’s become one of my very favourite restaurants. Set on the riverside close to Richmond bridge, it has the most wonderful setting with views across and down the Thames. The first time I went, on […]
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It’s school holiday time and it’s always lovely to take the grandsons out for a treat. Today’s outing was a little last minute so we weren’t going to venture far. The family are coming and going a bit during the holidays and are briefly home for a few days. Looking at the weather forecast, I […]
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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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The Easter holidays have begun and I always like to take the boys – my son’s eldest two, Freddie (10) and Ben (7) – for an outing. It’s fun for me – and it always seems fun for them too! Of late, we’ve combined some kind of cultural – art/museum/theatre – visit with a meal […]
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This is the kind of post that usually gets published around new year, looking back on the best of the previous year. However, I had a busy start to 2025 – family and work – and so a look back on 2024 passed me by. Now spring is on our doorstep (not officially with us […]
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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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