“A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine” – so wrote Jean Brillat-Savarin, famous French epicure and gastronome and it is hard to disagree with that sentiment. Wine enhances any meal, not only with its capacity for social lubrication but it can also physically enhance the flavour of the food, just as […]
Click here for a full portionSunday brunch at the Green Bar @ the Hotel Cafê Royal
Isn’t it funny how some words in your language can evoke such strong feelings? A friend of mine recently asked her Facebook friends what their favourite English words are and the variety was quite astonishing. Some words are obviously pleasurable to roll off the tongue: sibilance, bibulous, scintillate, onomatopoeia or molybdenum. Some seemed innocuous enough […]
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Marooned – Whitstable harbour, Kent, October 2014
Click here for a full portionPlum, Serrano ham and mozzarella salad
Pop quiz: what do the following terms all have in common: plumcots ligers labradoodles zebroids limequats wholfins jostaberries
Click here for a full portionP&O Britannia inaugural celebrations – and a first look inside
Have you ever wondered why tradition dictates that we smash a bottle of Champagne against the hull of a ship when we name her? You may be surprised to learn that it was the indirect result of a cost cutting exercise by the Royal Navy (which just goes to show that the more things change, […]
Click here for a full portionSTK London
Service Question: how many times can you walk past a London venue without actually realising it is there? Answer: more times than you think! I have walked up Aldwych and The Strand on numerous occasions but it was only when I was actually headed for dinner at STK that I realised where it was (across […]
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