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Sunday Lunch at Scott’s, Mayfair
If Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, named this his favourite restaurant, and Adrian Gill, erstwhile restaurant critic of the Sunday Times, also raves about the place (albeit that he is...
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The Criterion Grill rediscovers Gaul
We regularly use the plural when we mean the singular. Nowhere is this more true than in Latin derived words used in a business context. For example “can you tell me the single criteria for...
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Brasserie Blanc, Manchester (closed Feb 09)
Raymond Blanc, founder of high profile restaurant with rooms, Le Manoir aux quat’saisons, and currently starring in the latest culinary reality TV show from the BBC, The Restaurant, has another...
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Twin towers no match for boiled eggs
I have some empathy with John Major and his propensity to give her a pubic service. Edwina Currie, in her prime, was almost certainly a foxy chick, and she sure has the personality to entertain a...
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Chez Clément, Place St André des Arts, Paris
Chez Clément has many branches in Paris and one in Nantes. Is this the French version of Chez Gerard? Je pense que oui! Surly waiters, slow service, cool greeting but then again, I am English. The...
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Café de Luna, Clichy, Paris
Cafe de Luna, on boulevard de Clichy is a bustling bistro that caught my eye on a cheeky weekend visit. We were staying round the corner in the ninth and needed a reasonably priced dinner. That is a...
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Gotham Bar and Grill, New York
This is just the sort of place I imagined an upmarket New York restaurant would look like. Solid, spacious, salubrious and snobby, and that is a compliment. It is expensive in the evening but if,...
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Le Café Anglais Oyster Bar, London
I’ve been impressed by Café Anglais on a number of occasions but I thought it was famous for roast chicken, and not particularly great for solo diners. So, ever since they emailed me to say an oyster...
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Sharrow Bay, Ullswater, Cumbria
If you have just scaled England’s third highest mountain via Striding Edge, slipped and nearly died, wished that you owned a pair of crampons, nearly shat yourself, and in the process built up a hunger...
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The Standard Grill, Meatpacking District, New York
Under the High Line, one of the seven wonders of New York City, where peace and tranquility mix with rare greenery on a former raised platform railway converted to a unique public park, lies a...
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Exhibition Sancerre, 2012
I have an American colleague, of French origin, who given his own bodyweight in Sancerre would happily sit on his sunny balcony and drink it nonstop in a frenzied Loire-athon. He does admit that other...
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