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The Pig, Brockenhurst: from kitchen garden and the surrounding New Forest straight to your plate
Set in the heart of the New Forest, The Pig is a gorgeous country house hotel and restaurant that prides itself on serving up produce that comes straight from its very own grounds. With its very own kitchen garden, greenhouse, orchard, chicken coop and smokehouse on-site, the concept of sourcing produce locally is taken to a […]
Upstairs at The Ten Bells: escalating Spitalfields cuisine to new heights
April 7, 2013
As far as old boozers in Spitalfields go, they don’t come more historic or vintage East End than the Ten Bells. Perennially packed, with crowds spilling over onto the pavement overlooking the market square, this Grade II listed watering hole is as much a landmark as the market itself. It’s not just the pub that’s been drawing […]
Perkin Reveller: Chaucer himself would have revelled here
March 22, 2013
Flanked by the historic Tower of London on one side and the even more iconic Tower Bridge on the other, the Perkin Reveller seems to have all the makings of a prime riverside tourist trap. Only, it’s not. In fact, once you’ve gotten over the spectacular views and taken in the options on their seasonal, contemporary […]
Dinner by Heston: Blumenthal’s London outpost lives up to the hype
February 19, 2012
Over the past few years, I’ve spent many a morning trying The Fat Duck‘s reservations line, only to be told by that same (now slightly annoying) auto-generated female voice that that the weekend table I was after for 2 months in advance was now fully booked. Accepting that some things are not always meant to […]
Hereford Road: Hearty, no-nonsense British grub at its very best
December 23, 2011
Every time I’m back in Bayswater, I still get that warm and fuzzy sense of nostalgia of my Imperial College days having spent a couple years as a W2-er back in my uni days. If there’s one thing I miss most about the area, it’s the large cluster of neighbourhood restaurants in and around the […]
Poppies of Spitalfields
May 14, 2011
Craving a good ol’ British Fish & Chips, we headed up to our new local Chippy on Hanbury Street which opened earlier this year. Word has it that Poppies is run by owner ‘Pop’ who has been frying up fish in the East End since 1945. And everything about the venture feels straight out from […]
Bob Bob Ricard
March 10, 2011
If I had all the money in the world, I would install one of Bob Bob Ricard’s infamous gold-plated “Press for Champagne” SOS buttons smack beside my living room couch. Fine, its a little outrageous and bordering on ostentatious… but absolute genius and a whole lot of fun at the same time. I was extremely curious […]
St John Bread and Wine
February 23, 2011
Few have championed British cuisine more than Fergus Henderson and his St John restaurant. Many regard his book Nose to Tail Eating: A Kind Of British Cooking as the saviour of British cuisine, steering it back on course at a time when British food seemed destined for insignificance – offal, organs and other unusual off-cuts all […]
Mason and Taylor
February 19, 2011
The craft-beer and real ale scene has certainly seen a recent boom in the capital. With that has come the emergence of more and more specialist beer pubs such as the Draft House and Euston Tap. It’s immensely exciting to see new, stand-out brews made on a smaller scale with tender loving care… a breath of fresh […]
Michael Caines @ Abode (Manchester)
December 12, 2010
So there we were at supposedly one of Manchester’s best restaurants – 1 Michelin star with the Michael Caines seal of approval, waiting patiently by the “please wait to be seated” counter to be seated. You would have thought the sensible thing to do would be to man the counter. 5 minutes later though and […]
Harwood Arms.
November 22, 2010
The words “Michelin-star” and “pub” don’t often get mentioned in the same breath together anywhere in the country, yet alone in London. But it’s official: The Harwood Arms is London’s first ever gastropub to make the cut. And with starters at £6-£7, and mains no more than £17, it’s probably the cheapest Michelin-starred food you […]
Blueprint Cafe.
June 5, 2010
Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, SE1 | blueprintcafe.co.uk | ingested Dec 18 ’09 With its prime riverside location on the first floor of the Design Museum, the Blueprint Cafe is for me one of the City’s nicest dining spaces. With views of Tower Bridge and the City of London to the West and the Docklands […]
QuoVadis.
October 15, 2009
26-29 Dean Street, Soho W1 | http://www.quovadissoho.co.uk | ingested Friday Oct 9th ’09 Traipsing along Dean Street, its impossible to miss this timeless Soho landmark – still accessorized in its classic, vintage neon sign and original stained glass windows. Splendidly restored by the Hart brothers last year (who also happen to be the brainchild behind […]
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