Food
No place like Rome
Roma sells ancient-Roman-style food near Fenchurch Street station at the east end of the City, near Aldgate. It is, therefore,…
Some like it posh
Daphne’s serves Italian food in South Kensington. (I like the name because Daphne was the name Jack Lemmon chose for…
Some like it posh
Daphne’s serves Italian food in South Kensington. (I like the name because Daphne was the name Jack Lemmon chose for…
Pens, sex and potatoes
I hoped that Bronte would be filled with Victorian writers licking ink off their fingers and bitching about Mrs Gaskell…
Pens, sex and potatoes
I hoped that Bronte would be filled with Victorian writers licking ink off their fingers and bitching about Mrs Gaskell…
Not much to smile about
CBeebies Land is a small dystopia inside Alton Towers, a theme park where people sometimes get their legs chopped off…
Not much to smile about
CBeebies Land is a small dystopia inside Alton Towers, a theme park where people sometimes get their legs chopped off…
Real legs and fake people
The Soho Hotel is an actors’ hotel. They come for press junkets and interviews that reveal nothing because there is…
Real legs and fake people
The Soho Hotel is an actors’ hotel. They come for press junkets and interviews that reveal nothing because there is…
Magic at St Michael’s Mount
The Sail Loft is under a castle on a mountain on an island in the sea; for that, I could…
Magic at St Michael’s Mount
The Sail Loft is under a castle on a mountain on an island in the sea; for that, I could…
West End churls
Piccadilly is ill-served by cafés, unless you consider House of Caviar a cafe. There is a Caffè Nero by St…
West End churls
Piccadilly is ill-served by cafés, unless you consider House of Caviar a cafe. There is a Caffè Nero by St…
The naked dinner
Bunyadi caters to folk for whom public nudity is somehow thrilling; I am here because A begged to go and…
The naked dinner
Bunyadi caters to folk for whom public nudity is somehow thrilling; I am here because A begged to go and…
A touch of class
Cliveden is a good review for a divided country and I have waited, not too long, for it to feel…
A touch of class
Cliveden is a good review for a divided country and I have waited, not too long, for it to feel…
West End churls
Cafe Monico, as if named by an illiterate playboy, is on Shaftesbury Avenue between The Curious Incident of the Dog…
West End churls
Cafe Monico, as if named by an illiterate playboy, is on Shaftesbury Avenue between The Curious Incident of the Dog…
Un-Italian job
I have been waiting, like a heroine in fiction, for the specialist lasagne restaurant. London has long been heading this…
The RA’s new restaurant prioritises its art over its customers
The Keeper’s House sits in the basement of Burlington House, a restaurant in disguise. It is quite different from the…
Cool and underground
The Keeper’s House sits in the basement of Burlington House, a restaurant in disguise. It is quite different from the…
The horrors of Soho House’s country outpost
It is summer and the listless metropolitan thinks of grass. It cannot afford to stay at Durslade Farmhouse, Somerset, a…
Soho in Somerset
It is summer and the listless metropolitan thinks of grass. It cannot afford to stay at Durslade Farmhouse, Somerset, a…
The most beautiful restaurant in London – from the outside
Batman owned the Criterion in The Dark Knight, but could he do anything about British Telecom? Savini at Criterion, an…
