The Gaggle of Geese
Kings and Queens. Ships, Sails and Dinghies. Red Lions, Foxes, Goblins and Griffins. A pub name should not follow trend. We need more character taverns, muses David, on his way to visit The Gaggle of Geese in Dorset.
Browsing: Eating Out
Powder Keg Diplomacy
With mounting glee, I made my way to Powder Keg Diplomacy, a name just pretentious enough to pique the interest of city workers with an inexorable need to throw their ill-gotten gains on quality dining not involving burgers.
New York Food Crawl
Everybody from Frank Sinatra to Jay-Z has extolled the virtues and bemoaned the vices of New York City. This being my first trip to NYC, I decided to spend a day traipsing across town eating everything in sight.
Combal.Zero
Lunch was booked for one o’clock at Combal.Zero in Rivoli, which had only re-opened two days previously after the summer sojourn, and perhaps word hadn’t yet caught on, as I was the only diner, at least for the first hour…
Le Pont de la Tour
When Jonesy drops one an email, one tends to sit up and take notice. More often than not, they offer tidings of comfort and joy. However, this one was laconic: “Larman, old chap. Cookery class at Le Pont de la Tour.”
The Garrison Public House
Are gastropubs what they were? Does the concept still have a place at the forefront of our culinary landscape? Noah May chews over the questions and chomps on braised rabbit leg in the cosy elegance of The Garrison Public House.
Feng Sushi
The love affair the British have with sushi peddles on. It occupies both extremes: those…
Benares
Benares has a great reputation, for both its food and its owner and chef, Atul ‘Master of Spice’ Kochhar, so I didn’t expect to be disappointed. I didn’t expect, either, quite the culinary thrills that lay before me that evening…
Eastern Standard, Boston
Eastern Standard is apparently the restaurant that the big-name chefs go to when they’re in Boston. The food is said to be innovative and consistently good, ever changing but always memorable. Jackie investigates…
The Cadogan Arms
I’ve walked past The Cadogan Arms on the King’s Road many times. I’ve briefly peered…
Paradise by Way of Kensal Green
How far would you travel to reach Paradise? I travelled all the way from EC1…
Street Kitchen
Street food outlets are changing the face of the City lunchbreak. No longer is the office worker stuck with nothing but sad sandwiches from chiller cabinets. John and Jackie pop along to the Street Kitchen trailer to scoff and investigate.