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Pondicherry: a former French colony in India and a unique cultural, architectural amalgam of these two seemingly disparate motherlands. As well as being incredibly interesting and beautiful, the region also holds the plus of being that, most important of things,…
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I’m a tremendous loyalist to South West London. Its leafy commons and open spaces, albeit slightly yuppie population, make for quite the pleasant lifestyle; one which I wouldn’t swap for feeling perpetually uncool in the East. Putney is a quintessentially…
Continue readingIn 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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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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