Saturday, 8th December 2018 – Moro, London A trip to Moro in December has become a tradition for ourselves and a number of our friends, and is tacked on to the end of a visit to Sadlers’ Wells Theatre for whatever dance treat Matthew Bourne has laid on in the run up to Christmas. This…
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Food 2018 – The Yard, Towcester
Friday, December 7th 2018 – The Yard, Towcester It pains me to have to do what is essentially going to be a hatchet job on any restaurant but we tried the latest place to open in our home town last Friday and it was not an edifying affair. La Strada, after a chequered half decade…
Travel 2018 – Helsinki, Day 5
Monday, 3rd December 2018 – Helsinki On our last day, having been running already on the trip, I woke up early and decided that I was going to try out the new-ish (well, it was still under construction when we first visited) Allas Sea Pool complex down on the harbour side. I didn’t think I’d…
Food 2018 – Gaijin, Helsinki
Sunday, 2nd December 2018 – Gaijin, Helsinki Sunday night in Helsinki (and even more so in the rest of Finland in our experience) is a tricky one. Because staff are paid a hefty premium for working on a Sunday, open restaurants are hard to find, if not almost impossible as we discovered in Hämeenlinna in…
Travel 2018 – Helsinki, Day 4
Sunday, December 2nd 2018 – Helsinki, Day 4 Sunday we were back under cloudy skies, with the threat of snow, so we decided we’d do the Panorama Bus Tour (again included on the Helsinki Card) starting at 11:00, then grab some lunch at the Christmas Market because we’d not managed to have a Finnish sausage…
Food 2018 – Emo, Helsinki
Saturday, 1st December 2018 – Emo, Helsinki Once again we put ourselves in the hands of the guides, with the White Guide describing Gastrobar EMO as somewhere that “has a toned-down, Japanesy feel to it with vertical textile screens that do very little to stop your neighbours from hearing or seeing what you’re up to……
Travel 2018 – Helsinki, Day 3
Saturday, December 1st 2018 – Helsinki, Day 3 And so on Day 3 we knew we had several Christmas-related things to do, so after running Tokoinranta parkrun, and coffee and cake for breakfast for me, we headed down the Esplanadi again with intent to go over to Suomenlinna, where I’d been told there would be…
Food 2018 – Ask, Helsinki
Friday, 30th December 2018 – Ask, Helsinki The White Guide says “Dazzling Finnish poetry – In the sparsely decorated room, with benches along the walls and Ilmari Tapiovaara’s simple wooden chairs, nothing here betrays that we are about to be treated to a spectacular show in roughly fifteen acts. Chef Filip Langhoff surely learned a…
Food 2018 – Natura, Helsinki
Thursday, 29th November 2018 – Natura, Helsinki On our first night in town I’d booked for dinner about as close to the hotel as I could get, based on recommendations from both Michelin and the White Guide. For our first dinner I’d gone for Natura, which surprisingly isn’t in the White Guide, but that is…
Food 2018 – Tight, Copenhagen
Wednesday, 31st October 2018 – Tight, Copenhagen This was a day when I let my colleague choose where we went for dinner, though to be fair he had requested that we go to Kødbyens Fiskebar the first night and I’d left him to his own devices on the Tuesday when I went out with a…
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