er dining in the great barn of Hawksmoor Regent Street on Sunday, whose excellence of cooking and service is slight undermined for me by the feeling of being on an enormous conveyor belt of wallet bulging customers, it was a real joy to dine in a small room with committed staff turning out excellent food.
Read more Resto 17 The French House, Soho
we were forced instead to amuse ourselves without any egg chasing for an afternoon.
Read more Resto 16 Wygston’s House Bar & Restaurant, Leicester
Mildred's is the best vegan food I've had in a long time. I suspect it won't be 6 years before I'm back this time.
Read more Resto 15 Mildred’s, Soho
Back to the (second) homeland for a night out with friends I could have chosen a better night than a Monday in January to check out the food scene in Ferryhill. Romana’s was shut for renovation, while the other Italian restaurant was just shut shut. And I was informed by the hotel manager that The…
Read more Resto 14 The Darlington Road Diner, Ferryhill
It almost brought a tear to the eye to be among a happy crowd of diners in one of the best rooms in London.
Read more Resto 13 The Delaunay, Aldwych
It feels like a long time ago that we went to Santoré so my failing memory means that this post will be brief. After a festive jar in the excellent Shakespeare’s Head we were back to Exmouth Market for nosh. Indian not being to my wife’s taste we compromised with Italian. Santoré does the standard…
Read more Resto 12 Santoré, Exmouth Market
I now found that darts makes me hungry so we headed northwards in search of curry. But it being Monday a lot of places were shut (I'm guessing some of them were also just shut full stop) so by the time we were nearly at Warren Street James pointed out that the best restaurant when you were hungry was the one you were eating food in.++++ Wise advice and we chose to eat at Nazuki Garden based on its being the restaurant we could see when we had that discussion.
Read more Resto 11 Nazuki Garden, Warren Street
Antwerp being off the agenda for a festive weekend away with friends our destination was re-adjusted to Glasgow where we planned to mix sophistication and boozification in equal measure, sometimes at the same time.
Read more Resto 9 The Gannet, Glasgow
Improbably in Florence for a conference dedicated to Marivaux studies I was with my fellow delegates in search of a good, cheap place to eat. Fortunately we had Italians among our number and we managed to squeeze into a table at Osteria dell’Agnolo. Its location so close to the Duomo rang alarm bells with me…
Read more Resto 8 Osteria dell’Agnolo