London Docklands sunset – October 2013
Click here for a full portionLQ Foodings – a Chateau Marmot pop-up restaurant in London
Shadwell is a bit of London that seldom makes it into the news for good things. You’re more likely to read about muggings in Cable Street than excellent meals – and yet there is no logical reason why this should be so. Shadwell is a stone’s throw from both the financial powerhouse of the City […]
Click here for a full portionBeetroot risotto with goat’s cheese and pine-nuts
With touching faith in the reliability of our own senses, we humans are fond of saying “I’ll believe it when I see it with my own two eyes”. But as anybody who has spent 10 minutes in a criminal court listening to an eye-witness being cross-examined will know, our eyes, ears and memories are notoriously […]
Click here for a full portionL’Atlantide restaurant, Nantes
“Permettez-moi de vous verser un verre de vin?“, said the charming mustachioed French gentleman standing in front of me. If I had applied brain for a few seconds longer, I would have caught the “verre de vin” bit and would probably have been able to guess the rest and responded appropriately by holding out my […]
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True blue – Brantes, June 2012
Click here for a full portionBuddha-Bar, London
It’s a brave man that opens a bar named after a major world religious figure – but that is exactly what the late Raymon Visan did in 1996 when he opened the first Buddha-Bar. It was not Visan’s first foray into the world of wining and dining – he had previously opened Barfly in Paris […]
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