“For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery, back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.” So wrote the wonderful D.H. Lawrence many decades ago […]
Click here for a full portionCreamy broccoli, semi-dried tomato and chicken pasta
Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it. Jack London Ah, inspiration, that most fickle of mistresses. Every person involved in any sort of creative enterprise has at some point thrown up their hands […]
Click here for a full portionA Meat Porter supperclub with Simon Hulstone
Everybody always tells you what a dynamic and fast-changing city London is – but I often think that in some ways it is quite the opposite. Walk around some of the elegant streets of west London, screw up your eyes, and you can almost see blokes in top hats and canes hailing horse-drawn carriages. But […]
Click here for a full portionTop tips for visiting Taste of London
As I mentioned in my chocolate cherry trifle post last week, 2004 marked the launch of this blog, Gmail and the Queen Mary II cruise ship. I didn’t realise that it also marked the launch of the Taste festivals, the best known of which is of course Taste of London. Back then, the event […]
Click here for a full portionDukley City Lounge, Belgrade [CLOSED]
I have said this before and I am proud to say it again: I am a child of the Eighties. This has its advantages – for a start, I learnt maths and grammar the proper old-school way so that today I am still able to tell you what 9 times 7 is without using a calculator; […]
Click here for a full portionHotel Alpenblick Restaurant Gourmet: Michelin-starred dining in Wilderswil
When I visited Wilderswil (a small village on the outskirts of Interlaken) earlier this year, I expected a few things. I expected to spend time with some good friends who now live there – check. I expected to have a view of the Jungfrau mountain – check. I expected to encounter breathtakingly aquamarine lakes fed by […]
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