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I was surprised to realise that of the best dishes I've ever eaten in my life didn't contain any meat. It was in 2007 at Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir restaurant and was a delicate Japanese custard with parmesan, satin smooth, salty…
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Everyone has their 'go to steakhouse'. I'm here to tell you it's the wrong one – I know a better one. I went to Italian owned and run Macellaio recently in South Kensington and emerged wowed, soused and with more…
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Great hunks of barbequed meat, rice and peas, goat curry, and pepperpot stew. Caribbean food, though a rare pleasure, is one of my favourite cuisines. Perhaps it’s the quite unbelievable fusion of different influences (African, East Indian, Arab, Chinese, and…
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Where there is tiki, there is me. A statement, simply put but true. As a lover of rum cocktails, I love the drinks culture and the accompanying 'party vibe' doesn't go amiss either. So when The Beachcomber opened up recently in Paddington,…
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A good Moroccan is a lovely thing. A refined thing, it is not. I hadn’t seen or heard of evidence to the latter until recently, when I was invited to a bloggers dinner at Zayane on Golborne Road, West London. It’s kitchen…
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A neighbourhood pub is one of the cornerstones of Great British culture. Nowhere else does them as we do. In Brazil, a ‘pub’ is actually considered an upscale bar; it’s a swanky place, a place to impress and certainly not…
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I haven’t eaten much in Parsons Green. Mostly because despite being a short hop as the bird flies from Clapham, the public transport links there are absolutely dreadful and I’m an intolerable lay about. There’s but a few things that…
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