Little France’s Newest Culinary Gem, Joséphine Bouchon Brings Authentic Lyonnaise Flavours to London What better pick for our Restaurant of the Month in April than Claude Bosi’s Joséphine Bouchon? The newly opened Bouchon Racine was one of the first restaurants we visited when we started this series. Now so popular that the earliest booking available […]
The Bugis Restaurant, South Kensington
Pan-Asian Food with a Singaporean Twist in South Kensington. With plenty of exceptional Chinese restaurants in London, I was excited to try The Bugis Restaurant, a London destination that specialises in Singaporean and Malaysian food – one that might recreate some of those dishes from my childhood and more recent times in Singapore. Street food […]
Petrossian Fine Foods & Gourmet Café
Indulge Your Inner Sybarite The inimitable Coco Chanel described luxury as being ‘the opposite of vulgarity’. The Petrossian Fine Foods & Gourmet Café is the epitome of luxury and refinement and I was lucky enough to be asked to review it. If you don’t know about Petrossian and, like me, your idea of heaven is […]
North Indian Restaurant in South Kensington – Thali
Thali – A hidden gem in South Kensington: South Kensington isn’t somewhere that immediately springs to mind for good Indian food. In fact, when I lived down the road, in West Brompton, I despaired of finding a good Indian restaurant and instead used to visit Taiwan Village to indulge in hot, spicy Taiwanese dishes. If […]
Drama and Delights – Afternoon Tea – Ampersand Hotel
Ampersand Hotel – Science Afternoon Tea I suspect I am nothing more than a big kid at heart. Revisiting the Ampersand Hotel for afternoon tea recently with friend and Theatre specialist Natalie York, we both looked at the menu – and despite the thirty year gap both decided that we should order the ‘Science Afternoon […]
Casa Brindisa
Casa Brindisa and the Hollywood Costume Exhibition: Although I live in Earls Court I have an appalling record of actually visiting the wonderful museums of South Kensington – actually only a short walk from home for me. I can walk to the Victoria and Albert, the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. But, […]