The Arts Club, Dover Street, London
Christmas is a time for celebrating with friends and colleagues – this year is was Annabel’s in Mayfair [phew] – but, if you’re lucky enough to have a friend who’s […]
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Locanda Santi Apostoli, Venezia
At this time of year we’re looking forward to sunshine and longer days, light evenings and warmth. We have several friends who manage to escape to warmer places in the […]
Quaglino’s, London
We grew up with Habitat, Terrance Conran’s innovative design shops, started in 1964 in Chelsea. By the early 1970s they’d reached Manchester and our home and office looked like a […]
The Ivy, London
We were reading a review of The Colony Grill Room by Giles Coren in the Times today, the new hotel restaurant at the Beaumont Hotel. This is the latest venture of Jeremy […]
Le Deuxième, Covent Garden, London
Want a really good, reliable post (or pre) theatre restaurant in the heart of Covent Garden? Look no further than Le Deuxième. A low key restaurant on Long Acre not […]
Mena House Hotel, Cairo
Arriving late into Cairo airport from London Heathrow, we arrive at Mena House in the dark; the taxi journey is around an hour, and our flight landed at 9 o’clock […]
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, London
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red. Created by ceramic artist Paul Cummins, with setting by stage designer Tom Piper, 888,246 ceramic poppies will progressively fill the Tower’s famous moat […]
Balthazar, London
Here it is…Balthazar comes to London, right in the middle of Covent Garden. Well, it’s been here a while now [2013] but at last we’ve been. Jay Rayner’s review was […]
St Pancras Hotel, London
After the enthusiasm for the destruction of the Euston Station arch in 1961 as part of the “modernisation” of the railways, the magnificent Grade 1 listed George Gilbert-Scott St Pancras Station […]
Clarke’s Bakery, Nottinghill, London
Changed forever from Alan Bennett’s bohemian era, Nottinghill is terribly smart these days. Recently seen in the Guardian, this shop/café/restaurant is the very last word in patisseries, as they call them […]
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