Ripe Tomato

I find it immensely irritating when restaurants – or any business for that matter – have no website. There is simply no excuse in this day and age and it must do one’s business more damage than one realises. For the most part I won’t even visit a restaurant unless it has a website. I [...]

Mews of Mayfair

“Do you expect me to eat?” said Jonesy, the laser homing in on his genitalia. “No, Mr Jones, we expect you to die!” Such was the vitriol that I experienced during my last meal at Mews of Mayfair, that I really did think it would be my last meal, full stop. Unlike some of my [...]

Kitchen W8

I have a seething hatred for parking wardens operating in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea; those harbingers of doom, pillagers of the people, the dark knights of the dictatorship we know as the Parking Authority. Having lived in the borough for a number of years under their relentless iron fist, I have come [...]

Brumus at The Haymarket

Kit Kemp and her husband Tim are key players in London’s boutique hotel market, and more recently in New York too with The Crosby Street Hotel that opened last year. Kit oversees the interior design of each hotel, a super-trendy cocktail of old world versus new, tradition versus change, bathing guests in a subtle kaleidoscope [...]

Smithfield Bar & Grill

Smithfields is a strange place. The meat market still dominates the area with its air of Victorian industrialism whilst relegated to the narrow side streets are a wealth of über-trendy eating and drinking spots. They are not there to water the cattle owners or fatten the meat traders of the market but are instead aimed [...]

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