Rotunda Restaurant – King’s Cross at its best: What was once the wasteland sprawl of an overgrown railway station around King’s Cross is now a complex of shops, offices and restaurants . Kings Place turned out to be somewhere I’m actually embarrassed I hadn’t found before – a new privately funded arts centre, complete with the […]
Above & Beyond, Dinner by Heston
Dinner by Heston, Mandarin Oriental, London: There are events I dream of being invited to. Usually, those events involve food, champagne and something quite exclusive. While I might not have created the itinerary for last week’s ‘Above and Beyond’ dinner it really is the kind of golden ticket planning that makes me proud to […]
Kippers and Oatcakes – A Very Scottish Breakfast
A Scottish Breakfast – Kippers and Oatcakes: When I was a little girl my father used to take me up to visit my Great Aunts in Scotland. Morag, Margaret and Jessie lived on the outskirts of Edinburgh, although they’d been born on Skye. All three spoke Gaelic and all three had trained as teachers. When […]