After a heavy afternoon’s tasting we fancied going for a nice meal. Our choice of the one-star le Jardin des Remparts in Beaune was inspired. Not only did it have a very good, and reasonably priced, wine list but also the food was very high quality. I was highly amused by the first course, melon [...]
When visiting Burgundy the one restaurant I cannot recommend highly enough is La Cabotte in Nuits St. Georges. I’ve eaten many good meals there and never left with an empty wallet. It is right in the centre of Nuits and is a great place for a relaxed, good-quality lunch or dinner. On this visit I [...]
It was Daniel’s birthday last Sunday; cannot be avoided, we all have to get older once a year. We wanted to go for a relaxing meal with some good wine and our knowledgeable hosts in Burgundy suggested Ferme de la Ruchotte. This was sold to us as a farm house dining establishment where one eats [...]
Bentley’s Oyster Bar Review I suppose I could be a bit more lenient on Bentley’s as we dined on a Sunday but I’m not going to: it was terrible. It is not a bad dining atmosphere in the oyster bar, but it began to drag a bit as we were sat there with nothing to [...]
Sushi-Say review When I was asked to book a sushi place for Sunday lunch I was a tad surprised; Sunday hardly seems like the best day to be seeking the freshest of fish. Fortunately, my fears were unfounded as this turned out to be the best sushi meal I’ve had in London. As a South [...]
Yauatcha review Yauatcha is quite an impressive looking place in the middle of Soho. Upstairs there is a tea room with little cakes on offer, downstairs is the main restaurant which is the site of the best dim sum meal I have ever eaten. The restaurant itself it quite stylish, with plenty of room between [...]
La Brasserie Ma Cuisine Bourgeoise review Yes, I admit it has an awful name, and the outside looks frankly hideous, but we dined very well. The menu has loads of French Brasserie favourites, so many recognisably fun things that the choice was difficult. Daniel and I ordered a different starters each and swapped half way [...]
This Korean restaurant lives underground right next door to Holborn tube station. The decor and location are perhaps the most interesting things about it as on our trip we found the food to be woefully tedious. We ordered a selection of meat, fish and vegetable dishes. The waitress tried her best to be informative, warning [...]
This is not much of an entry, I don’t see any point in regurgitating the hard work of others. Just to say that the excellent food blog Chez Pim has some information on the new Michelin guide for France. I’ve been to perilously few of those restaurants….
Nestled in the Vosges mountains of the Lorraine just outside the tiny village of Baerenthal is the three-star L’Arnsbourg; this is the site of the best meal we have ever eaten. After the sashimi and sushi experiences in New York left us in paroxysms of pleasure, this really restored our confidence in classical European cooking [...]
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