. 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…
As I walked to the museum it seemed that every step of the way I saw a fresh restaurant that was better than mine, with seductive lunchtime offers plastered in the windows. Had the chef of Le M mesmerised me? If so, I was happy enough.
It's nice to know the City curry is in safe hands when other establishments have fallen by the wayside post-C.
The menu is brief but full of interesting things.
The RTJ was fine but next time I'm in Versailles I'll try their rivals, The Maharajah, across the road. Oh, and make sure I know where Versailles are actually playing.
The RTJ was fine but next time I'm in Versailles I'll try their rivals, The Maharajah, across the road. Oh, and make sure I know where Versailles are actually playing.
After a hard day hitting the books in the London Library (Edmund White’s excellent The Flâneur in prep for a March Paris trip) it was time for a bit of pre-exhibition grub. We didn’t want to go too far and Al Duca is in the middle of a refurb so we opted for F&M’s Wine…
For £15 a head I don't think you could get better value anywhere else on Green Lanes (except, perhaps Umut 2000). Recommended.
The room is over a hundred years old (as, it would seem, is most of the clientèle).
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