Tag Archives: Fitzrovia

January 01

Les 110 de Taillevent. Bank on it.

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An accomplished brasserie with sophisticated food, mainly classics, executed to a high standard for the price point.

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February 07

Pied à Terre. Fitzrovia fine dining for fans of finesse.

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We’d booked to go to Atelier de Joel Robuchon as a birthday treat for J, son of C. I ask whether J, whose taste in food tends towards the adventurous, might not prefer something a little more down with the kids but I am told that I do not know what I am talking about. As it […]

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October 31

A Tale of Two Taverns.

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Apparently, a tavern is somewhere that serves wine and an inn is somewhere that serves beer and ale. According to Wikipedia, in the UK, the word “tavern” is no longer in popular use”. I’m not sure that the owners of the relatively new Newman Street, Berners and Merchants Taverns would agree. And other than the […]

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I get the Picture.

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Taking the morning off at short notice, my thoughts turned to food. For a change. I decided to go and have breakfast at Honey & Co. On entering I see a well-known food blogger on his own and also Nicholas Lander, having breakfast. I feel vindicated. Clearly turning into my mother and the sort of […]

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Sardo. Sardinian, silly.

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It was the meeting of what used to be the Book Club. We’d started well, all those years ago, reading good and worthy things and talking about them, over food. Obviously. There were, however, few books that we all liked. Bram Stoker’s Dracula was one. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was another. Draw your […]

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Lima. Posh Peruvian.

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Lima. I’ve never been to Peru. And I had meant to come to this little slice of it,  last year,  but the table turnaround policy (two hours) didn’t work for my pre-Xmas client dinner and they had only mentioned it when they phoned to confirm the reservation. So I got into a mini-stroppette and booked somewhere else.   It […]

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Honey & Co.

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You’d walk past it if you didn’t know. And you wouldn’t know unless you’d read Marina O’Loughlin’s lovely review of this (or at least I wouldn’t). And given her review, I really had to try it. It’s run by a couple of ex-Ottolenghi employees and you can see certain similarities. There’s an attention to detail […]

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Dabbous. Round 2

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They don’t need a sell-by date Even saying the words “round 2” will irritate some people. It would irritate me. It’s still incredibly hard to get a table here: partly due to the size – I guess around 35 covers – but mostly due to the quality of the cooking, which is unlike anything else in […]

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Bubbledogs&. Words almost fail me

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Lovely lovely Twitter. On my way back from a grim trip up North I was skimming through Twitter and noticed that there was a place available at Bubbledogs& Kitchen Table that evening on short notice. Needing a bit of escape, I jumped at it. Whilst I’d known it was much heralded and that it was […]

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