Le Langhe, York
We’ve avoided York for quite a while now. Perhaps we over did it? It’s always bustling with tourists and the universities have grown and expanded so it’s always busy. Once […]
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The Richard 1, Greenwich, London
Greenwich village in London [as opposed to NYC] languished as, if not so much a backwater, then a less than fashionable part of London. It wasn’t brilliantly connected and although […]
10 Greek Street London
In another in the series of the random, unresearched, let’s just pop in sort of place (so far successful) we walked in to 10 Greek Street for a pre-Ronnie Scott’s […]
Babylon at The Roof Gardens, London
London in the 1960s and early 1970s was the place to be… the “happening place, man”. Unfortunately, we weren’t there. In spirit maybe, but not in the flesh. Too busy […]
The Star in the City, York
We’ve got a small selection of flat caps [is it Yorkshire?], three in fact. By a chance of fate, one of them actually came from Yorkshire. The other two have been […]
Simon Radley at the Chester Grosvenor
Thinking about the recent post on the Art School in Liverpool, it was hard to think of a food that epitomises that great city. We have a sister-in-law whose parents […]
The Art School, Liverpool
That great conurbation of Manchester and Liverpool [and Salford, Rochdale etc] – dubbed the new Northern Powerhouse by Her Majesty’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne – is surprisingly deficient […]
Portrait Suites, Rome
Our italian road trip saw us visit Rome for the first time in many, many years. You really need to live here to appreciate the wealth of history – a […]
Wagamama, Soho, London
Fast food doesn’t always get the best press, where the speed of delivery isn’t enough to offset the perceived lack of quality or nutritional value. Apparently though, the Doner Kebab […]
The Olive Tree Restaurant, Bath
We have a tag “Top Ten Views” – a worthy accolade we think – useful and certainly helps if you’re choosing a place to eat for a special occasion. So, speaking […]
