Penny Black for Dinner, Chelsea – restaurant review
The Fulham Road isn’t my usual hunting ground, although it’s well served by public transport and easily accessible, but after my recent dining experience I...
Thai Square – Richmond – restaurant review
Richmond is that leafy and rather posh terminus of the District Line. It’s got swanky river frontage, historic buildings and The Green skirted by homes...
Maison Touareg for lunch – restaurant review
Greek Street is one of my favourite corners of London. It has the feel of a village with heaps of charm preserved from another era....
InterContinental for Afternoon Tea and Summer – review
London is acknowledged to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It’s been a magnet for tourists for generations. Plenty of celebrated...
The Empress of Sichuan – London Chinatown – restaurant review
I know there are some good restaurants in and around Chinatown but they are famously few and far between. It’s a universal truth that the...
Mango Tree for Sunday Lunch – restaurant review
It’s been decades since a Sunday lunch just meant a huge roast with all the trimmings. We have travelled and our tastes are much broader....
Tempo Mayfair – restaurant review
[This venue is now closed] There has been an Italian restaurant on this site in Curzon Street since the 1930s. Tempo is its latest reincarnation...
Atlantico at The Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel – review
The Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel is a 4-star hotel in one of London’s most iconic of locations. It’s conveniently placed just a few yards from...
Zenna Bar, Soho – review
Dean Street is a famed Soho thoroughfare. It runs between the retail hub of Oxford Street to the north and Shaftesbury Avenue to the south....
Bavarian Beerhouse, City Road – restaurant review
Yes, your intrepid restaurant reviewer has sought out another interesting eatery for my dear reader to try. This one is truly a bit different and...
Bavarian Beerhouse – Tower Hill – restaurant review
What can be more iconic than the Tower of London? Its imposing stones and gilded embellishments still have that wow factor. The building must have...
Café Spice Namasté: Khaadras Club Night – review
In the seventh century, Arab armies conquered Persia (now Iran). Some Zoroastrians were converted to Islam whilst others fled to India. They settled in the...
Perrier-Jouët Champagne Lounge at Dukes Hotel – review
Dukes Hotel is found unobtrusively tucked away in one of London’s most prestigious neighbourhoods. The stunning building graces a quiet corner of St. James’s and...
108 Marylebone Lane – restaurant review
Oxford Street has its chain retail outlets and stalls stocked with goods that no self-respecting adolescent tourist would want to live without: plenty of plastic...
Tuttons for Tea – restaurant review
Henry VIII dissolved all of England’s monastic properties in 1540, because he couldn’t get his way with the Catholic church and the ‘Bishop of Rome’...
Lunch on British Pullman carriages of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express – review
Yes, I have a lovely life: a restaurant reviewer, and able to take my pick of the very best that the World has to offer....
Fusion Brasserie Worcestershire for dinner – restaurant review
One can search for Italian food in all the famous towns that boast true Italian or Tuscan culinary heritage: Florence, Siena, Hawbridge, Pisa, Grosseto. We...
ORA Thai Food and Jazz – restaurant review
There is a world of tranquillity just behind the buzz and throng of Oxford Street. That celebrated retail hub is a river of bag-burdened humanity...
The Elms Hotel Worcestershire – hotel review
This is an imposing Queen Anne mansion. Go on, admit it, you can’t remember who Queen Anne was and didn’t know she was a builder....
The Fleece Inn for lunch – restaurant review
Perhaps Robin Hood had a local, and if he did I would suppose it looked just like The Fleece Inn. This isn’t a Disneyesque themed...