Restaurant Reviews and Trainee Chefs life
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I have seen the future – it is green, it is efficient and it is happening right now under your feet in Clapham ! When The Jam ( one of my all time favourite popular beat combos) hit the number one spot for the first time in their career in March 1980 they sang about…
Barrafina – Finally cracked the Enigma ! Amazing – is it not – that I have never made it to Barrafina ? Even more incredible when you appreciate there are three of them to choose from, or more correctly there were, as there are now four locations spread around London to chance your unreserved arm…
Farzi Cafe, Haymarket – Luvly Jubly ! It is a bit of a further journey from India to the West End than from Peckham to the West End, but for the next twelve weeks Farzi Cafe and Only Fools and Horses the Musical will be unlikely neighbours in Haymarket – Cushty ! Farzi Cafe is…
Cora Pearl – Ham and Cheese Toastie + Chips to go please ! Cora Pearl and Kitty Fisher sound like the names of young ladies that Prince, in his heyday, ( god rest his soul) , would have invited into another of his all girl backing line ups, and they would have played like demons…
Falling off the Wagon into Verjus ! I am in Paris for a few days, meeting up with my daughter to have some quality time together, and to attend a Snow Patrol concert together – the band being my daughters favourites for many, many, years. After delays for both of us due to snow hitting…
Tom Kerridge, whilst at Wednesday nights Times+ event commented that if he worked in The News building at 1 London Bridge – where this interview was taking place on the 17th floor – he would not be able to do anything all day other than just admire the view out of the window. Well it’s…
THE ADVENTURES OF “SUPERDRYMAN” EXPERIENCING HIS FIRST DRY JANUARY Should it be concerning that when I mention to Friends and Family that I am doing Dry January for the first time their response is either one of shock and awe, or one of hysterical laughter ? Is my reputation and relationship with alcohol such that…