Opera Tavern Covent Garden My business partner has been at a conference at the Connaught Rooms and suggested we met up for a drink and a bite to eat on Saturday night. Finding somewhere reasonably priced, informal and not too packed on a Saturday night in December and where we didn’t need to book (as he didn’t know what time he’d be finished) was...
Food For Media at the Caxton Bar and Grill, St Ermin’s Hotel I was delighted to be invited to the Food For Media event at St Ermin’s Hotel. Mostly because I thought it would be a great chance to network and meet some journalists, media owners and Food and Drink Suppliers. What I got was a fabulous foodie evening, at least partly because of...
Bocca Di Lupo – How to abort a Soho Gastro Tour My foodie friend decided I needed some education into the ‘new’ Soho and we planned a happy afternoon tour of some of the more fashionable places that had popped up since I last worked in central London and ate out regularly. The idea was to eat a few ‘small plates’ in 2...
Pre-opera dining at Da Polpo Where to take your 17 year old goddaughter for pre-opera food? Well, when she was a bit younger we used to stick to the Opera House restaurants, but I thought it was worth trying something different this time. What I was looking for was the sort of place where she might just want to go with her friends or...
Not my Kitchen! Given that most of my restaurant reviews are of places I know and love, it’s a rare occurrence for me to leave somewhere feeling truly disappointed. Brinkley’s Kitchen – on the edge of Wandsworth Common was one such occasion. I was with a girlfriend for supper and we had great hopes that we’d found somewhere friendly with good quality food...
Taiwan Village I’ve lived in this part of West London for around ten years now. And, I must have walked past the discreet frontage of Taiwan village for years before I decided to try the place. The catalyst for me was an extremely busy exhibition at Earls Court coinciding with a Chelsea match at home on a day when I REALLY wanted to eat...
About time I revisited another local Fulham restaurant and went to My Dining Room! My Dining Room is just round the corner from ‘Fulham Beach’ tucked away from the main shopping area. A few years ago the rather rough pub on the site was reborn as a Gastro-pub/Restaurant called ‘The Farm’ and when it first opened I was quite a regular in the restaurant,...
Twitter is a wonderful thing at times. Some twitter streams are funny, some are poignant, some are informational and some win you meals at good restaurants! It was by spotting a tweet from a food blogger and then retweeting Chiswell Street Dining Rooms that I ended up there as the prizewinner of their twitter competition! Although there are a few well known London pubs...
Beefed up at Bistro du Vin Soho I am a regular visitor to Hotel du Vin bistro in Henley and have generally enjoyed the food there, so I was delighted to get the chance to visit one of the Bistro du Vin restaurants in London (there is another one based in Clarkenwell). I was also curious to see what similarities and what differences there...
Brunch at Roast London Thanks to a little competition run by LoveFood and the Good Energy Company I was lucky enough to win a brunch with Arthur Potts Dawson at Roast. I haven’t been there before so I was really looking forward to trying it out. The restaurant itself has a tiny entrance hidden next to the Roast takeaway stand but is on the...
