Two so-so meals at Cafe Pushkin could already have shattered my expectation of the Pushkin’s and we could have given Confectionery Pushkin (just next door to the restaurant a miss). NOPE. This did not happen. I had Pushkin cakes half a year back in Paris, at a small Cafe Pouchkine – very annoyingly Francocentric spelling …
Yes, again!!! A week ago, thanks to Miles Irving, I coerced me into putting a bunch of elderflower in my mouth.. .. last weekend Helene Darroze stuffed me with many pretty flowers. I did not go to HD’s 2-starred restaurant but her cosy offshoot Espelette at the Connaught Hotel for a late afternoon …
Has the Covent Garden Market just gone well too posh? First, there is the largest Apple Store in the world. Following suit is the Burberry Brit and now Laduree!! (There are still Natwest, Llyod’s and HSBC around the corner if you are in need of an overdraft) Looking tiny from the outside but Laduree at …
Not sure how many days it was that I had sunk my head in books. I got to lift it up and sniff my way to a restaurant at last. My choice? The Soho’s Best Friend Forever, formally known as Bob Bob Ricard. It had never been love at first bite with me at BBR. …
St John – no.41 as of the 2011 World’s 50 Best Restaurants – is good at many things – the madeleines, the custard doughnuts, the gleaming soft-boiled eggs in salad, the not-awful offal, the capers that go into many things. Is their next best thing the afternoon “buttock” bun? I made an exception to eat …
I was standing next to Colbeh but my eyes strayed from its fiery clay oven to this little shop of sugary curiosity just opposite, Cocomaya. To cross the street or not was totally not a question. My legs did their job before my brain could even rationalise or my eyes checked there were no cars …