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The other night I went to a very special place. I don’t think I’ve said those words since my gap year, though in an entirely different context and it probably wouldn’t be all that appropriate to discuss that right now……
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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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The Phene has been an icon of Chelsea for years. Armed with a reputation for all things trendy and for quality of food, drinks and service, as well as being armed with bouncers on the door for dinner service (!),…
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It is a scary thing, being a Yorkshire lass in London. We face challenges and difficulties, alien currents to navigate, very different, very strange cultural quirks to negotiate. Simply put; people are odd. Meet someone in a bar or nightclub…
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There is something fabulous about being British. Something about the license to always cook a roast on Sundays. To always, always queue. To put a fruit salad into Pimms in the summer, to warm it in the microwave in winter,…
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I was out on the streets, it was dinner time and I had a hankering for something French. Perhaps it was the torrential rain pelting down on me, flattening my painstakingly straightened hair, perhaps it was the stream of abuse…
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