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A meal at The Talbot, Brockley

A meal at The Talbot, Brockley

I have dearly missed having a ‘local’ pub: comfort, great food, familiarity. While the Talbot in SE4 is a little too far out for us to become regulars, we’ll definitely be back to sample more of talented chef Sabrina Gidda’s food. Find out more about this recently reopened Brockley local.

A meal or two at Vegan Yes, Brick Lane

A meal or two at Vegan Yes, Brick Lane

Exploring the unknown: vegan food! My colleague Paul and I sometimes treat ourselves to a lunch out. Being near Liverpool Street, we have plenty of choice around us yet he’s vegetarian so we have to pick somewhere with enough choice for him to have a satisfying meal.   A couple of weeks ago we were trying to decided where to go when he smugly announced: ‘I’ve found a perfect place: Vegan Yes in Brick Lane’. He sent me the menu…

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A meal at Mere, Fitzrovia

A meal at Mere, Fitzrovia

*** THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED *** I had been meaning to try out Mere for a while, pretty much in fact since Monica Galetti opened it after leaving her previous post of many years at Le Gavroche. She’s a formidable lady who seems a lovely person as well as a talented chef and I had been keen to try her food because of her south pacific roots as well. A London visit by my kiwi friend Jo seemed the…

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