The greatest creamed spinach I’ve ever tasted was during a recent meal at The Palm steakhouse in Chelsea, just off Sloane Street. They elevated this simple dish from a usually forgettable accompaniment to an indulgent and delicious side that tasted so good I would’ve happily converted to vegetarianism and eaten [...]

Of all the things that I have sewn recently (it’s a list that includes my new sofa cover, the paw of a cuddly bear and a bolt of silk reincarnated as gift-wrap) stitching the stomach of a fish is definitely up there as the most unusual. And yet here I [...]

Last week I went for dinner at a friend’s house. It was going to be more like supper than a dinner party but in the post-Leveson era it’s quite hard to say that without feeling the need for inverted commas. Or a cloak of auburn curls to swish. Let’s just [...]