When you arrive at The Vineyard at Stockcross you’d be forgiven for thinking you had pulled up the driveway of some odious chain hotel in a charmless provincial city. If the recommendations had not been so glowing I would have been worried, very worried…
Guest blogger Jeff Home reports on Sunday lunch at our local boozer.
Every Sunday around midday across our fine country, publicans arrange chairs around tables, adjust their horn-rimmed glasses and brush off ancient signage in the hope of enticing punters in to their invariably dingy and dark establishments…
You may recall that I gave a talk in the Houses of Parliament on behalf of the excellent charity Rethink on the subject of being a nutcase (with wine references, of course); I reposted the talk here if you are vaguely interested…
Hawksmoor most definitely delivered a ludicrously high quality lunch experience. There are no words I can add to this picture:
Shame about the background lettuce, eh?.
Having read this article I discover that the National Institute for Health and Clinical excellence are a bunch of meddling busybodies who feel they have the right to dictate exactly how should live our lives. These kind of jumped-up farts annoy me more than it is possible to believe…
The City is slightly un-nerving at the weekend, all of those tiny, winding streets between skyscrapers that are totally devoid of people make me more than a hint spooked. This is not true of Brick Lane, a throbbingly vibrant locality where, amongst a myriad of not always attractive gustatory offerings, you will find some of the best Vietnamese sandwiches (banh mi as I am sure you will all know…
When I meet my friends the conversation invariably turns to the subject of wine. Consequently it is a great compliment to Sakana Tei, an unassuming little Japanese restaurant just off Regent Street, that even when dining with Paul Day, the grand wizard of arcane wine knowledge, we largely discussed the food.
I had visited Sakana Tei before and found the experience to be distinctly ordinary…
On Thursday I took a break from the radical weight loss program to enjoy lunch at Santa Maria Pizzeria – ranked by Time Out as London’s best pizza establishment. The pizza was certainly good, but the company and wine trumped it.
I was the guest of Lance Foyster and Isabelle Clark of Clark Foyster Wines; they sold me the throbbingly ravishing, sensuously beautiful Mac Forbes wines I…
On Tuesday evening I was lucky enough to be invited to London’s newest hyper-fashionable dining establishment: Tom’s Terrace. The ‘Tom’ in question is the Michelin-starred chef Tom Aiken (he designed the menu and keeps the kitchen in order) and the ‘Terrace’ is the really rather fetching one of Somerset House…
Sometimes emailed invitations are too tempting to turn down. The offer of a Hawksmoor burger and a taste of the new sandwiches they’ll be offering at their soon-to-be-opened Covent Garden branch was just such an email.
My regular reader will know that Hawksmoor burgers are of mind-altering quality…
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