Harrods’ Great Gatsby Pop-Up
All the words in ‘Courvoisier Great Gatsby Pop-up at Harrods’ are fabulous apart from ‘pop-up’,…
Browsing: The Foodie
Claude’s Kitchen
“It’s extremely rare that I find myself in Parson’s Green. I love London for all its multifarious gastronomic eccentricity; I love diving on a bus and eating Turkish feasts in Haringey, Indian food in Southall, but you’d have to work pretty hard to drag me down to Parson’s Green.”
Uptown Gastronomy: Café Boulud
“Café Boulud, humming quietly beneath The Surrey hotel, a hive of monochromatic luxury on the Upper East Side.”
The Kitchen in Bloom
Most of us who are interested in food – whether that’s cooking it, reading about…
Cutty Sark: Good Enough For Scorsese
Think late seventies when leather gloves were mandatory for men and driving a Ford Capri 3.0 S Mk III was tantamount to being a god…
RAW Fayre: Western Slovenia
“Outsize ants crawl over crazy paving at the Klinec homestead’s terrace. The vista in their midst – Medana’s vineyards…” Ahead of London’s RAW fair of ‘natural wines’, Douglas Blyde visits participating country, Slovenia.
The Palm
“Over the past five years, London’s steakhouse scene has become a well bred beast and the steak spectrum for meat eaters in the capital is now broad and multifaceted…”
The Palm’s Creamed Spinach
The greatest creamed spinach I’ve ever tasted was during a recent meal at The Palm…
Stuffed Sea Bass
Of all the things that I have sewn recently (it’s a list that includes my…
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught
I first read about The Connaught at an extremely impressionable age. I was too young –it left an indelible, immovable mark on my consciousness. I was fourteen years old, but I remember the sequence of events very clearly.
The Goring Dining Room
“If you visit the restrooms at the Goring Hotel you might be forgiven for thinking you’ve taken a step back in time to a Victorian gallery of smut. Adorning the walls are a selection of Reubenesque beauties leaving very little to the imagination…”
Lemon and Almond Tart
Last week I went for dinner at a friend’s house. It was going to be…