Tuesday 7th March, 2017 – Sakura, Northampton A teppanyaki restaurant is not what you expect to find on a city centre road junction in the middle of Northampton, nowhere near to anything even vaguely hip (and to be fair you’d have a lot of trouble finding anything vaguely hip anywhere near Northampton, a town I…
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Food 2017 – The Crazy Bear, Stadhampton
Saturday January 21st, 2017 – The Crazy Bear Thai Restaurant, Stadhampton, Oxfordshire Back when I was a student (sometime in the Jurassic period I think) we used occasionally, provided someone had transport available, to head out of Oxford in search of pubs, and would often end up at Stadhampton, in a fine if somewhat eccentric…
Food 2017 – Galvin at the Athenaeum, London
Saturday, 14th January 2017 – Galvin at the Athenaeum, London Partly to celebrate my birthday a couple of days previous t0 the event, partly because we had a Groupon to use, Lynne and I spent the afternoon at the theatre (at the Royal Court Theatre, seeing “The Children”) and then headed off down towards Picadilly…
Events 2016 – Christmas at Blenheim, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock
Tuesday 27th December, 2016 – Christmas at Blenheim, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock Everyone’s doing it these days it seems, so after a bit of discussion we decided we would go and try out the Christmas light display at Blenheim Palace, a 40 minute drive away from home. We shelled out for tickets and for car parking,…
Food 2016 – Vibin’s, Buckingham (2nd Visit)
Saturday 24th December, 2016 – Vibin’s, Buckingham Back in the day we used to go to the Roade House for lunch/dinner on Christmas Eve, on the basis that I’d be doing all the cooking for the next few days and could use a day off before the big event. With the retirement of Sue and…
Food 2016 – Moro, London
Saturday, 17th December 2016 – Moro, Exmouth Market, London After a visit to Sadler’s Wells, which is not exactly the most central of London’s theatres, it’s become almost a tradition for us to go to the splendid Moro for an early dinner. Well, if you can call three times a tradition. I think you probably…
Food 2016 – Bian Dang, London
Wednesday, December 14th 2016 – Bian Dang, Kerb on the Quay, London A fine dry day, one more week of Kerb on the Quay left, and about to no longer work nearby, I decided that despite the cold, I’d scoot out in pursuit of a final Kerb fix for 2016. I was briefly distracted by…
Theatre 2016 – King Lear, Old Vic, London
Saturday, 19th November 2016 – King Lear, The Old Vic Theatre, London This has – as has been noted in a number of places – been something of a year of Lear, with around half a dozen major productions staged around the UK during the course of 2016. We’ve already seen the Michael Pennington version…
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…
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