An Autumn Menu at an Old Classic – Pizza Express: The Pizza Express in Coptic Street is an old friend which has been in the 1888 premises of what was originally the Dairy Supply Company since 1967. Charmingly you can still see many of the features of the original dairy including the ceramic tiles in […]
The Bloomsbury Club – an Intimate Evening of Cocktails and Food
Cocktails at The Bloomsbury Club, The Bloomsbury: I’m something of a fan of the Bloomsbury. In addition to the stunning Dalloway Terrace where you can enjoy brunch, the hotel as a whole has a quintessentially English charm about it. That, of course, includes an Alice in Wonderland type maze of corridors with rooms off where someone […]
Ichiryu Hakata Udon House Review
Udon House in Oxford Street – Ichiryu: Ichiryu is the newest venture for entrepreneur Tak Tokumine, who founded Japan Centre in 1976. A Hakata native, Tak takes pride in being able to bring a piece of his hometown to London, allowing people from all walks of life to appreciate authentic high quality Japanese udon. Coupled […]
The Marquis Cornwallis – Food and Drink for the Bloomsbury Set
The Perfect Bloomsbury Watering Hole – The Marquis Cornwallis: I find myself in Russell Square at least twice a month, sometimes twice a week, attending meetings in the University of London buildings. In these meetings we attempt to workforce plan for the NHS, look at the education needs of the workforce, and enhance leadership capabilities […]
Dining with Mrs Dalloway
Almost Al-Fresco in Bloomsbury at the Dalloway Terrace: The upper middle-class Bloomsbury set, an intellectual group was an informal network of artists, critics and writers who lived in Bloomsbury, WC1. One of the members, Virginia Woolf, was author of the novel Mrs Dalloway, who lends her name to the newly opened Dalloway Terrace. The book […]
SuperStar BBQ – Korean in London
Korean is the new black – SuperStar BBQ: SuperStar BBQ is a new Korean BBQ joint from the same people who brought you Bimbimbap, the mini-chain specialising in bowls of the Korean rice and vegetable national dish. I’m a Korean food novice so it was great to be asked to review so I could experience a […]
Spaghetti House – Goodge Street
An Original Italian in Goodge Street – Spaghetti House: While I’m not quite old enough to have been around when Spaghetti House in Goodge Street first opened in 1955, to my generation foods like pizza and spaghetti (the long sort rather than the stuff that came in cans from Heinz) were exotic and in […]
Turkish Delight – Ishtar
An Introduction to Turkish Cuisine – Ishtar, Bloomsbury, London: There are many parts of the World where my understanding of the local food is sadly lacking. Although I’ve visited Turkey once, it was on a Schools Cruise, when I was in my teens and my memories are limited and blurred by time. I DO remember […]
‘Hi Hello’ to Salaam Namaste Bloomsbury
Salaam Namaste – Sabbir Karim’s OTHER Award Winning Indian. I seem to have started a habit of visiting ‘family members’. And, just as Casa Malevo is the older brother of Zoilo, Salaam Namaste is the second, slightly more traditional family member of Namaaste Kitchen in Camden, somewhere I visited recently and loved. I was happily […]
The Lady Ottoline, Bloomsbury
Ladies Lunching at the Lady Ottoline, Bloomsbury: An invitation to review the Lady Ottoline in Bloomsbury coincided with a planned meeting with Tracey from Fighting Fifty who joined me for lunch, a catch-up and a bit of a gossip. And, she arrived first, so when I finally found the pub and dining room she was […]