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In a city of concasses, tuiles, ballotines and bites of the unutterably fine, there is occasionally no pleasure quite as exquisite as that of the Sunday hangover fry up. And for this, I wouldn’t even consider going anywhere but Jack’s…
Continue readingTo me, there can be no more pleasure to be had on a Saturday than that involved in pottering around a food market, appetite in hand and hangover in check. And Clapham Common’s leafy borough has an absolute corker of…
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Living in London has a tendency to make one a little insular. Before moving here I used to get infuriated at the ignorance of those bloody Southern monkeys about anything north of Watford. Now that I’m here, sadly I’m starting…
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Restaurant Story, encamped on a traffic island by London Bridge and the brainchild of Tom Sellers, has just won its first Michelin star after being open a scarce eight months. Alacrity to rival that of Dabbous last year and with similarly youthful a chef. But is…
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Summer in London for me is heat, spice and outside drinking. Of course, interspersed with the monsoon rainstorms and occasional flash floods customary to our fair isle, but in general as soon as that tarmac starts baking my step gets…
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Vietnamese has never been a cuisine I have much delved into. Funnily enough, the Yorkshire dales never nurtured much of a food scene for it. And so, on reading a most impertinent review by A.A.Gill, Critic for the Sunday Times,…
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Tom Aikens has a reputation as fierce as the flavours he routinely dishes up at his (several) restaurants and on the Great British Menu pass. Food achingly local, almost rustic, emphasis firmly on British, firmly on bold. On moving to…
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