Murano, London
It’s been a bit of an Italian summer – not the temperatures up in Yorkshire – but the language training in the Veneto and Torcello. Compared with last summer – […]
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Locanda Cipriani, Torcello
We’re on an Italian refresher course (well, one of us is) cycling around the Veneto to the west of Venice. We’ve done this cycling thing before, down the Danube from […]
Roots, York
We don’t do lunch. Well, not proper lunches. Not Prawn cocktail, great slabs of roast beef and Black Forest gateau. (Why ever not, you cheapskates?…Ed). Usually it’s maybe a simple […]
The Hare, Scawton, North Yorkshire
The Hare has been on the list for a while now. In fact, it’s nearly five years since Paul and Liz took over a failing pub and we still hadn’t […]
The Kitchin, Leith
Let’s get this right out of the way at the beginning, without any preamble; dinner at The Kitchin was absolutely perfect. No question. One of the very best. So, 11/10 […]
Black Swan, Oldstead, North Yorkshire
We’re watching the 2016 Great British Menu on BBC2. No, it’s not in the same league as Bake Off, but it does showcase some great cooking from around the British […]
Albergo Gardesana, Torri del Banaco, Lake Garda
It took us over eleven hours to drive the 350 miles from Stuttgart to get here. OK, it was a Saturday in August but tales of super fast Autobahns were […]
La Cour de Lise, Willgotheim
It’s the 2016 Rio Olympics and Team GB is in second place as the games near their end. Yes, that’s right second place, behInd the US but just ahead of […]
Le Cochon Aveugle, York
There’s something strange about restaurants with a reputation. We’ve noticed it at many, many places – those with 1, 2 or 3 Michelin stars, or a particularly beautiful location perhaps. […]
Ca’n Pintxo, Soller, Mallorca
In Yorkshire – at the Angel at Hetton – they have “Yapas”. We know, you can go too far and we’ve been less than enthusiastic about other contortions of the […]
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