Le Citrouille, Paris
We’ll, we didn’t really intend for our first significant foray after 18 months of confinement to be to Paris. A long awaited cycling trip to accompany a good friend saw […]
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Drunken Duck Inn, Barngates
Another revisit. This time to our old favourite, the Drunken Duck between Windermere and Coniston. Oh how we’ve missed you. After a typical glorious Yorkshire summer, over here in the […]
Kysty, Ambleside
Regular readers will know we’re fans of Mo’l and Jay R from the Grauniad but we haven’t quite clicked with the humour of Grace Dent, and consequently haven’t slavishly recorded […]
McCoys at the Tontine, North Yorkshire
All good things must come to an end. The Cleveland Tontine was built in 1804 and thanks to the London to Sunderland Mail Coach, it became a popular resting place for […]
Hope Street Hotel
Gradually, and with a good deal of hesitancy, life slowly thinks about what it will be like when things return to normal – whatever that might be. It’s the first […]
Lockdown Meals #3
It’s late November and the latest lockdown draws to a close, being replaced by a ‘Tier’ system which sees almost all of England in Tiers 2 and 3, and a […]
Lockdown Meals #2
So, episode 2 in the great Lockdown Saga. Let’s hope we’re moving towards the end of this trilogy – more drawn out than Thomas Cromwell’s life and times. We’ve been […]
Lockdown Meals #1
It’s been a long, long, lonely winter, as the Beatles might have said, before heralding the sun…and spring and, hopefully, an end to the [necessary?] measures that have restricted all […]
The Angel at Hetton, North Yorkshire
Well, about a hundred years ago, when we were but young architects, we were designing spec housing. A meeting with a commercial director of Costain homes brought home the grizzly […]
Black Swan, Oldstead, North Yorkshire
Well we guess the Black Swan holds a number of records – Trip Advisor ‘Best Restaurant in the World’ and now No 4 in the same league table. Remarkable. BTW […]
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