Review #20 Il Piccolo Diavilo, Stroud Green
Good neighbourhood Italian in N8
Review #19 Le Voltaire, Paris
Monty's local turns out to be gastronomic perfection.
Review #18 Café de l’Opéra, Paris
Stereotypically dire Parisian service. It doesn't have to be like this.
Review #17 Le Manoir, Boulevard Haussmann
Good Parisian post-opera pitstop
Review #16, Lima Covent Garden
Upscale Peruvian to the rear of a proper London boozer.
Review #15 Café Tramp, Green Lanes
Charming bistro-dining in Harringay and it's within stumbling distance too.
Review #14 Carluccio’s, Russell Square
First of the chains for a lunchtime snack.
Review #13 Motijheel, Russell Square
A solo mission on this occasion having arrived in London ravenous from an afternoon’s teaching in the Biggest Seminar Room in the World. Motijheel is an old favourite. If ever I want to remember what my teenage culinary years were like I can stroll down Marchmont Street and back into the timeless atmosphere of Motijheel…
Review #12 Ravi Shankar, Drummond Street
Vegan friendly eats in Drummond Street
Easter Rising 1916
Fresh from two hours of document analysis with the students of the University of Westminster I was absolutely in the mood for the kind of exhibition that ‘Easter Rising 1916’ at the Photographers’ Gallery purports to be, especially as I’ve got an upcoming seminar to teach on British stereotypes of Irishmen in the nineteenth century.…
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