The Gentlemen Baristas Covent Garden appoints Mark Greenaway as Consultant Chef Despite the dreadful difficulties the hospitality industry is currently experiencing during the pandemic, it’s great to know that new and exciting things are still happening. Award-winning culinary titan Mark Greenaway has been appointed consultant chef to one of London’s best-mannered coffee houses, The Gentleman […]
Frog by Adam Handling – Covent Garden
Adam Handling, Covent Garden – Frog Restaurant and Eve Bar. Not bad as a last before lockdown lunch, I’ve been meaning to visit Frog by Adam Handling in Covent Garden for some time. As it happens, I made it just before all restaurants in the UK were closed thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s a […]
28-50 Covent Garden – Wine Bar and Kitchen Review
28-50 Covent Garden – a Restaurant Reinvented. At one point London had three restaurants trading as 28-50, all part of a group owned by the Texture group of restaurants and run by Agnar Sverrisson from Iceland. And, at one point fairly recently, the venue that is now a new 28-50 wine bar and kitchen was […]
The Black Penny, Covent Garden
Sunday Brunch at The Black Penny: Sunday’s are about being lazy. Getting up way too late for breakfast, feeding the dog then heading out to scout for a big brunch in a dog-friendly cafe or pub is almost de rigueur in our household. It good bit of breakfast food and a lazy walk in the […]
VyTA Italian Restaurant Covent Garden – Review
La Dolce Vita at VyTA Covent Garden. VyTA describes itself as ‘an elegant Italian lifestyle experience’; in practice, it’s an all-day restaurant handily located in the heart of Covent Garden market ‘open from dusk till dawn serving breakfast and brunch through to dinner and beyond’. New pre-theatre or late-night options in Covent Garden are always […]
Lady of the Grapes Wine Bar – Review
Meeting the Lady of the Grapes in Covent Garden. Tucked away on Maiden Lane, almost opposite Rules, is a charming new(ish) wine bar with a focus on female winemakers. Lady of the Grapes is the brainchild of Parisienne, Carole Bryon, who set the place up to help redress an inherent male balance in the wine […]
Lao Cafe – Review
A little Laotian in London – Lao Cafe: Laos wraps itself like a scarf around Thailand. A landlocked country, a narrow strip bordering on Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia and China, I had no idea what to expect from Lao Café, a relatively new restaurant and the only place in London to serve Laotian food. The country […]
Pre-Theatre Dining at Le Restaurant de PAUL
Perfect Pre-Opera Dining at Paul, Covent Garden Many years ago I was strolling through the elegant streets of Lille and come across a PAUL bakery. It was clearly a local business and there was nothing like it in the UK at the time; that mix of the rustic and the sophisticated that the French do […]
Cafe Pacifico Covent Garden Review
Back to the 80’s at Cafe Pacifico: Back in the 1980s, London was an exciting place to be if you were young and interested in music, politics or fashion, though the cultural energy wasn’t reflected in the choice and range of restaurants. The city certainly hadn’t become the centre of gastronomic excellence that it is […]
Photo London with an exclusive lunch at The Delaunay
Photo London and the Delaunay: I love Christopher Corbin and Jeremy King’s restaurants. There is an old-world professionalism about them that that makes me deeply happy. They take classic European models mediated through a contemporary London lens and have created a series of great rooms with an individual sense of style and an energy, furnishing […]