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This weekend, one of my favourite restaurants closes its doors in Exeter Street, Covent Garden after 40 years. But happily all is not lost, for the iconic Joe Allen is moving only 25m down the road to 2 Burleigh Street. Since hearing the restaurant was under threat a few months ago, due to actor Robert […]
Read MoreThere’s been a bit of excitement brewing in Shepherd’s Bush Road for a few months; the main road that runs from Hammersmith Broadway to Shepherd’s Bush. It was some time last summer that Lawrence Hartley and Tim Healy – who already own two of my favourite restaurants, Joe Allen and Orso – told me of their […]
Read MoreHappy New Year 2016!! WordPress have just sent me the blog’s Annual Report full of statistics about which posts were most popular and where readers came from. The most popular post this year was a TV review of Italy Unpacked Series 3: Puglia & Basilicata but my recipe for mince pies wasn’t far behind. I […]
Read MoreIt’s been a busy week and the blog’s birthday almost passed me by. I remembered the cat’s birthday (she was 8 on Thursday) because I had to sign a contract when I got her from a rescue home and her birthday is on the contract. She got extras of her favourite treats. It was my […]
Read MoreIt’s a week of birthdays: my sleek little Bella cat was 7 on the Wednesday, my brother Adam’s birthday followed on Thursday; my friend Rona’s birthday was yesterday and Annie’s is tomorrow. Meanwhile in the midst of all these celebrations the blog reached the grand blogging age of 3 yesterday. A proper celebration, maybe cooking […]
Read MoreAnnie and I hadn’t been to Joe Allen for a while … well, since the beginning of the year; longer than usual. My writing the blog has taken us in search of new places to try, but every so often we just have to return to Joe Allen. It’s a bit like going home. However […]
Read MoreAbout this time last year I wrote a post about the 10 bucket list new destinations I’d like to go to over the next couple of years or so. Well, I’ve only managed to tick off one this year – to Istanbul – but I’ve still had a fantastic year of travel and eating, and […]
Read MoreI’ve never celebrated 4th July before. Well, I’m not American; I’m a Londoner through and through. But when I received an email from Joe Allen about their special 4th July American Independence Day menu featuring burgers, clam chowder, barbecue ribs and chocolate brownies for pud, it was an offer not to be resisted. And anyway, […]
Read MoreI had the slightly weird experience early last December of sitting in one of my favourite haunts in central London – Joe Allen in Covent Garden – and seeing the owner of a favourite local restaurant heading across the room to say hello to me. Suddenly Twickenham met Covent Garden. For only days before it […]
Read MoreThe blog became one on Wednesday. I’d been thinking over the last few weeks about maybe doing something special to celebrate but in the end plans were overtaken by Jonathan, Lyndsey and Zeph moving out that day and thus a certain amount of chaos in the house. Cooking anything wasn’t going to be on the […]
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