SteamPunk Indian on the Old Brompton Road: When I first moved to West Brompton, the current site of Flora Indica was a Chinese restaurant. It was a little tired even then, though I remember being fascinated by the full wall aquarium in the basement dining room. The transformation has been extensive and the result is […]
A London Home from Home with FG Properties
A Night in London with FG Properties I love to go on city breaks and for the last few years rather than booking a hotel I prefer to rent an apartment for a few days. I like the independence and flexibility it affords me. I love being able to immerse myself in a locality but the best […]
The Art of Bread – Maroush Bakehouse
Maroush Bakehouse Earls Court During that quiet period between Christmas and New Year (well quiet for those of us without children on holiday!), I took the opportunity to check out a new Bakehouse that has opened just a few minutes walk from where I live. Now, the name did sound familiar and I realised later […]
Champagne Afternoon Tea at Ampersand
Bubbles and Cream in South Kensington at Ampersand: I’ve been out and about checking out some of London’s offers. Lime and Tonic are an exclusive member’s club that finds you things you might not find for yourself and gets you great deals. So, when they suggested that I went along and trialled one of their […]
The Havelock Tavern, Brook Green
The Havelock Tavern – a Phoenix rising from the ashes I moved into a tiny flat round the corner from the Havelock some 15 years ago. On the top floor of a tall Victorian terrace, I had great views over West London. And, an added bonus, a great new London gastropub on my doorstep. The […]
Taiwan Village – a hidden gem in Fulham
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 […]
Goblins, Giants and Banquets
I’ve just managed to write up my review of Ferdie’s Foodlab, a fantastic banquet style supper club I went to on Saturday. Apart from eating and drinking far too much, I had a wonderful time. My sometime singing teacher Zoe invited me along to see a production of Das Rheingold in Fulham. Now, I’ve been […]
The Harwood Arms
The Harwood Arms – a bit of local history Since I moved to Fulham about 6 years ago this place has gone through several different iterations, with varying degrees of success. The Harwood Arms, when I first visited in 2006, was a better than average local serving decent and very reasonably priced English pub-grub that […]
London Pub on Summer Afternoon – The Atlas
A Lazy Saturday Afternoon at the Atlas Pub I’ve already written about The Atlas pub so this is a post rather than another page in the restaurant review section. But, it was a splendid English summer day yesterday and my brother and sister in law and I headed for the pub garden to eat and […]
L’Etranger – London Gloucester Road
Japanese French Fusion Cuisine at L’Etranger: L’Etranger was a chance ‘taste’ for me at Taste London – it was next door to Bentleys, I was still hungry after the Bentley’s scallop ceviche and it had started to rain VERY hard. It was a lucky chance – the L’Etranger truffled burger was a really welcome mouthful. […]