The Sun Inn, Dedham
If Dedham didn’t exist, someone would have had to invent it. Arriving at this quite…
Author Alex Larman
A Child’s Paradise: Chia Laguna, Sardinia
I wipe my eyes in disbelief. Am I seeing things? Is a giant Teletubby really…
All Hail the Pie Man: The Newman Arms
Over the course of the past few years, Larry and I have ventured intrepidly across…
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
It is unlikely that you will see a bleaker, nastier or funnier play in the…
Chimichurris
Kick off. Dining anywhere in London in the midst of the World Cup season is…
The Three Cranes
If you haven’t heard of Henry Harris, then you are clearly not an aficionado of…
South Place
We arrive, inevitably, just as the snow does. The piercing cold makes us huddle in…
The Feathers
‘Train travel really is the only way to travel, isn’t it?’, I said in my…
Royal Lancaster London
‘London’s finest hotel’. Such a description is so widely used as to be almost meaningless,…
Absolute Hell
When a play is described as none other than ‘a libel on the British people’,…
The Garden Café, Lambeth
London has a number of places that defy normal logic as an environment to eat.…
The Porterhouse, Oxford
Oxford dining, for so long a rather old-fashioned affair, has been invigorated in the last…