The Palm’s Creamed Spinach
The greatest creamed spinach I’ve ever tasted was during a recent meal at The Palm…
Browsing: The Foodie
Stuffed Sea Bass
Of all the things that I have sewn recently (it’s a list that includes my…
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught
I first read about The Connaught at an extremely impressionable age. I was too young –it left an indelible, immovable mark on my consciousness. I was fourteen years old, but I remember the sequence of events very clearly.
The Goring Dining Room
“If you visit the restrooms at the Goring Hotel you might be forgiven for thinking you’ve taken a step back in time to a Victorian gallery of smut. Adorning the walls are a selection of Reubenesque beauties leaving very little to the imagination…”
Lemon and Almond Tart
Last week I went for dinner at a friend’s house. It was going to be…
Lima
“Since opening in trendy Fitzrovia just eight months ago, Peruvian restaurant Lima has already been voted ‘One to Watch’ at the National Restaurant Awards and, perhaps more importantly, has received the thumbs up from London’s hippest tribe of foodies…”
BRGR.Co
BRGR.Co. A strange, vowel-less beast that’s popped up on Wardour Street, part of the renaissance of Soho restaurants and the new breed of burger purveyors who’ve set up shop to make the most of London’s burning desire for re-imagined American junk-food.
Duvel Triple Hop
Might I point out that sprint has sprung. Isn’t it obvious? Cold wintery nights, grey…
Bo London
“Chinese chef, Alvin Leung, is something of a legend in Asian gastronomic circles, an avant garde performer who stands alone in terms of creative vision and culinary style.”
The Luggage Room
We stroll up to the front of the hotel, searching for a likely entrance. There’s nothing. We enter the hotel through the revolving door and search the foyer. Still nothing. We find a doorman and discreetly make enquiries about a ‘Luggage Room’. “Ah” he says, sizing us up. “Outside, look for the small, black door to your right – you need to knock”.
Asparagus
There’s only a couple of weeks to go until the British asparagus season kicks-off officially…
The Rookery
“Everywhere in the Capital, everyone is grabbing for their bit of the pie. Whether it’s mediocre no-hopers petulantly clinging to the armrest in the tube, or unjustifiably self-important fat cats creaming off bonuses in the City. It is universally acknowledged that no one wants to share.”