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London-Unattached · 7h ago

Terroirs Wine Bar, Covent Garden

Terroirs Wine Bar: Places to eat and drink where neither food nor wine are going to break the bank  can be hard to find in Central London.  Especially if you want to reserve a table because you are arriving on a Friday evening to meet friends from out of town.  So, I was pleased to discover that Ter
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London-Unattached · 2d ago

Pret a Diner London – Review

Pret a Diner – Italians do it Better: Take one beautiful Grade II building, strip it back and then in the way that Italians do so well, style it!  Add contemporary art, lighting and designer furnishing.  Showcase the concept that ‘Italians Do it Better’  by taking some of Italy’s most exciting new A
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London-Unattached · 2d ago

Pret a Diner

Pret a Diner – Italians do it Better Take one beautiful Grade II building, strip it back and then in the way that Italians do so well, style it!  Add contemporary art, lighting and designer furnishing.  Showcase the concept that ‘Italians Do it Better’  by taking some of Italy’s most exciting new Ar
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London-Unattached · 3d ago

Getti, Piccadilly

Getti, Jermyn Street, Piccadilly – Meeting Big Brother: Rather sadly my regular lunch companion had to cancel our date at Getti at the last minute…so I ended up going alone.   There are advantages and  disadvantages to dining alone.  For once I was able to concentrate completely on the food and surr
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London-Unattached · 6d ago

Warm salad of asparagus and quail eggs with fennel pollen.

Quail eggs, Asparagus and Fennel Feast: I have some quail eggs left from making kedgeree.  And, I managed to find some English asparagus this week, though it did look a little sad!  So, rather than just steaming it, I wanted to make something different, since this summer the asparagus is such a rari
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London-Unattached · 6d ago

The Real Greek Moussaka

The Real Greek are a group of restaurants in London serving authentic Greek food.  The first restaurant opened in Hoxton and since then the group has changed hands a couple of times and expanded so that there are now seven restaurants in London including one in each of the Westfield Shopping Centres
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London-Unattached · 6d ago

Cornish Pasties

Cornish Pasty – the Somerset Way   When we were little, one of my mother’s staple dishes for weekday suppers was Cornish Pasties.  She made her pasties with flaky pastry which took an inordinant amount of preparation, but which she thought hid her poor pastry skills.  My grandma was a dreadful cook
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London-Unattached · 1w ago

Claudia Roden – The Food of Spain

Claudia Roden brings Spain to Wanstead: When my friend mentioned that her sister, who runs Newham Book Shop, had invited Claudia Roden to talk about her latest book ‘the Food of Spain’ and then asked if I’d like to come along, I was thrilled.  Despite the fact that the event was being held in Wanste
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London-Unattached · 1W ago

42°Raw, Royal Academy Piccadilly

42°Raw -in their own words “What is More Fun than saying detoxifying antioxidants? Eating them!” As you may have noticed from my reviews and recipes I am something of a carnivore.  So, a visit to 42°Raw for lunch was not top of my personal wish list.  It sounded a bit too alternative for me, and I h
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London-Unattached · 1W ago

42°Raw, Royal Academy Piccadilly

42°Raw -in their own words “What is More Fun than saying detoxifying antioxidants? Eating them!” As you may have noticed from my reviews and recipes I am something of a carnivore.  So, a visit to 42°Raw for lunch was not top of my personal wish list.  It sounded a bit too alternative for me, and I h
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