Resto 11 Al Duca, St. James’s
The food is classic Italian with (I'm hazarding a guess, I'm no expert except for knowing that they love a bit of donkey in Vicenza) the emphasis towards the north.
Resto #10 Boulestin, St James’s
Meeting a friend at the library we were looking for somewhere new within walking distance. I’d read about Boulestin a while ago (when it had freshly revamped a classic restaurant brand) – some okay, some bad. On the whole I liked it. First impressions were good. The room feels light, a nice change from the…
Resto #9 Pierino, South Ken
Chilli ketchup, the Pet Shop Boys and the civilising influence of pizza.
Review #6 Café Den Turk, Ghent
Good beer, top snacks and a star for a barman. The Café Den Turk is much better than it needs to be.
Resto #5 Belga Queen, Ghent
For a romantic evening this was a good find and the evening got even better once we'd found the Hot Club de Gent where they were playing some seriously good jazz.
Review #7 A La Mort Subite, Brussels
Like the Café Den Turk À La Mort Subite is the kind of historical location that could, if it chose, go down the route of celebrating its own celebrity by going easy on what made it good in the first place and turn itself into a Belgian theme park. And like the CDN it is…
Review #8 Mub’Art, Ghent
The last of our eating places of a very high quality weekend was the surprise package. To borrow from Rumsfeld (who seems strangely less crazy than once he did, that’s the power of 2016) Mort Subite was a known known, Belga Queen was a known unknown and Den Turk was an unknown known. Mub’Art, however,…
Academic Writing, or the Slow Crawl to (Possibly Non-) Publication
Is it wise to whine about the time it takes to get a piece of work published when you have two articles and a book chapter currently in the peer review process? Probably not. Probably not original either so I’ll just point out that I have had one little piece of work published recently, a…
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Korean Art in London
Seething, shimmering intensity at White Cube; quease-inducing kitsch propaganda at the BM. Both worth seeing.
Resto #4 Quê Mę
A full room on an early Saturday evening (in contrast to La Porchetta a couple of doors along) showed that Quê Me has successfully cracked the price/quality equation for this stretch of restos, where the competition is fierce.
A London Journal 