Where to Eat with Kids: Wahaca

December 31, 2025.Reading time 9 minutes.

It’s becoming a family tradition to go to The Nutcracker at Christmastime – again! Again because I was taken to see it as a child for many years and it’s wonderful that now my grandsons are old enough to enjoy it too. It was Freddie’s (10) third time; Ben’s (8) second and this time my […]

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 […]

My Week in Food

April 13, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

People seem to like my new series about the food highlights of my week. I love writing them and thinking each day about what I’ll add to the next week’s post. So … here goes with the past week’s food. Tuesday – Food & Poetry on Richmond Hill This was the day I met friends […]

Restaurant Review: Wahaca, Covent Garden, London

March 10, 2013.Reading time 10 minutes.

Last night was my Mother’s Day Eve celebration with my son: he had tickets for us to see La Boheme at the Royal Opera House and suggested we eat first in one of our favourite places, Wahaca, in nearby Chandos Place. Neither of us had been there for a while. Part of the problem has […]