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Despite gorging ourselves at lunch we were in the market for a snack in the evening. We’d failed to get in to CCdeB the day before during to its being booked up and on entry I could see why. It’s a narrow room with one sit down table, a counter by the kitchen and a…
High quality dining and wine at a very good price.
Cheap pizza does the trick.
High quality and good value. A winner.
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Not the best Indian I’ve ever had.
Work and social pressure mean that review currently are in a continuing state of chaos. But it was ever thus. Bon Plaisir … when did we visit? A week or so ago? Friday night after an excellent look at the bijou Wright of Derby show. Orrery and Philosopher with the stars being the prints. Nice…
After a morning working through existential pain and a moderately diverting museum (St Rémi- great if you like tapestries but otherwise ehh) I was hungered. Apparently KFC have solved hunger – c’est la fin de la faim. But let’s move on from that. I was hungry. But not as hungry as a lot of people.…
Eating parklife at BRAT.
. A catch up with work colleagues meant that Sunday morning found me hungered and mullered. The Premier Inn breakfast didn’t appeal so I made the pilgrimage to Winch proper to get some of the good stuff. It’s a bright scene in The Ivy and I was probably the shabbiest thing in there. The couple…
A morning admiring the Doisneau exhib at the Musée Maillol followed by a stroll along boulevard St Germain led to hungriness of the highest order by the time I’d reached the environs of Ground Control. Pizza and a beer seemed a good option. Azur was fairly busy, with travellers presumably having a pit stop prior…
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