Saturday, 4th December 2016 – Restaurant 44, Swissotel, Berlin After the spectacular meal at Hugos the preceding night this was always going to have to be a completely different experience, and to be honest one of the problems we’d hit was wanting to eat within walking distance of the hotel, which restricted our choices somewhat….
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Travel 2016 – Berlin, Day 2
Saturday, December 3rd 2016 – Berlin We had a plan – or at least we thought we did! After a brief, brutal but ultimately succesful fight with the coffee machine in the hotel room, we took a leisurely breakfast in the Interconinental Club before stepping out into a crisp, cold but above all clear winter’s…
Food 2016 – Hugos Restaurant, Berlin
Friday, December 2nd 2016 – Berlin, Day 1 (Hugos Restaurant, Intercontinenal Hotel) Of Hugos Restaurant in the Intercontinental Hotel the Michelin Guide has this to say: “It is true that the view from the 14th floor is fantastic but this elegant, minimalist-style restaurant is known first and foremost for its classic, modern cuisine, which is…
Travel 2016 – Berlin, Day 1
Friday, December 2nd 2016 – Berlin, Day 1 We set off at a slightly silly hour from our friend’s house in south London to get to City airport for the 08:20 to Berlin Tegel, and although it only takes around 27 minutes at that time of day there began one of the themes of the…
Food 2016 – Winter Food Festival, Northampton
Saturday/Sunday, 12th/13th November 2016 – Winter Food Festival, Northampton County Cricket Ground, Northampton After three years of the Towcester Food Festival, held in the summer months at Towcester Race Course, the indefatigable Crispin Slee, madman of the parish (in the nicest possible way) and one-man force of nature decided that what we needed in the…
Food 2016 – Rascills, Raskelf
Saturday, 29th October 2016 – Rascills, Raskelf Back in the day when Mum was still alive, she and I became very fond of Artisan, a really rather special restaurant over the other side of town from Mum and Dad’s house, and run by the lovely Lindsey and Richard Johns, with Richard cooking superb food from…
Travel/Food 2016 – Beverley, East Yorkshire
Saturday, 29th October 2016 – Beverley, East Yorkshire, UK We urgently needed to scoot up to Hull to check on my late parents’ house as we’ve just put it on the market, and so we decided to make a bit of a weekend of it and stay two nights in Beverley, which for those who…
Food 2016 – Galvin la Chapelle, London
Saturday, 8th October 2016 – Galvin la Chapelle, Spitalfields, London Another Saturday, another restaurant, another Groupon deal. Post-theatre (No Man’s Land, Wyndhams Theatre) we made our somewhat convoluted way to Spitalfields, an area of London that has changed beyond all recognition in the years since I used to cut along Commerical Road to get to…
Food 2016 – Crabbieshack and House of Dodo, London
October 2016 – Crabbieshack, House of Dodo, West India Quay, London With winter coming on fast the wonderful Kerb on the Quay people are winding down with the last outing of 2016 taking place last week. Meanwhile I managed to revisit two of the food truck I’ve already reviewed, and have some further thoughts on…
Food 2016 – Vibin’s, Buckingham
Thursday, 20th October 2016 – Vibin’s, Buckingham Vibin’s, nee Halibut once upon a time, was a restaurant on our radar ever since the late and much-lamented Roade House went the way of all flesh and robbed us of a regular, not too expensive but very good indeed, eating haunt. And so, on a cold, damp…
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