Apparently Restaurant Story has been the hot topic across blogs, online magazines and the likes since it opened last year. I had not read much, I confess, not interested in the hype for some obscure reason (as I usually am) and only reading one of my favourite bloggers’ post and my idol food critic’s piece. I wasn’t thus entirely sure what to expect upon our visit, booked without too much hassle, (any at all in fact) a month prior. I…
***this restaurant has since closed down*** A couple of weeks ago I had some VIPs visiting (very important parents) so after a weekend in Ockenden, a delightful dog friendly dinner at Dock Kitchen, I also treated them to a Mayfair night out, since I had been wanting to try Alyn Williams for a while. The restaurant is part of the Westbury Hotel, a stone’s throw from Regent street and, sort of expected around here, has an ambience of understated elegance…
Corner shop – Pizza Pigrims, Soho Much has been written about the Pizza Pilgrims. Those who live in London and have an even vague interest in food know who they are, what they do and how they started this whole palava about making ‘traditional Neapolitan sourdough pizzas’. For those who do not know about them, their very nice website has it all, from typos (‘Casserta’, ‘pizzaolos’) to videos to photos and names of the producers and cooks and chefs they…
Sometimes special occasions deserve the right treatment. Not sure if a ‘something’ birthday is such an occasion but I was treated to a fantastic dinner nevertheless. Until we got out of the tube station, I wasn’t quite sure where @bmcboy was taking me, although when he had mentioned it was a classic, such a place had come to mind. When we started walking towards Maiden Lane, I knew he had booked London’s oldest restaurant, Rules. I had never been there…
If you go to Starbucks and you get a good coffee, there is something wrong” [cit.] The coffee scene has become painfully trendy (and a bit snobbish, to be honest) recently. It certainly wasn’t so back in the early 90s, when a young Neapolitan twenty something (me) landed in London with nothing planned but to have some fun. And fun I was to have, when I got my first paid job in the second branch of a then very small…