The Silver Birch
When is a Michelin starred restaurant not a Michelin starred restaurant? This is an unusually…
Author Alex Larman
Amaya
To hold a Michelin star for nearly two decades, in these febrile and eventful times,…
A Splendid Spring Selection
Now that it’s finally looking a bit sunnier and more spring-like outside, and we can…
Silva
If you happen to be venturing into Mayfair in search of somewhere to eat, then…
L’Oscar
It is a challenge, especially in central London, to make a boutique hotel both stylish…
Camino Farringdon
89 Turnmill Street, where the latest outpost of the tapas group Camino now resides, is…
The Grill on the Fifth
Dining inside a department store is always something of a mixed blessing. On the one…
Long Chim
“That,” Larry said with a sigh, “was not what we were led to expect…” We…
Les 2 Garçons
I have to confess, this time a year ago I hadn’t given Crouch End an…
Summer 1954 at Oxford Playhouse
The great Terence Rattigan – the playwright laureate of longing and repression – has been…
Ploussard
On visits to France, you may sometimes come across the rural restaurant and wine bar…
Firebird
If you manage to escape the hellscape that is the east side of Oxford Street,…