What is “fashion” and what is “fashionable”? Everybody, it seems, interprets those terms differently. I do admit I have a hard time editing content for my London “Fashion” Eat fortnight. If “fashion” suggests “trend” and “fashionable” means “trendy”, we will only be strictly talking about great food with great ambiance populated by fat and skinny …
Opening its door to the public this evening as of 31st January 2011 at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal was probably the most highly anticipated restaurant opening in the UK in 2010. The problem was (?) that the opening scheduled somewhat in December did not take place. A month or so …
Right! This is the round-up of places I’d been in Bangkok before I move on to reviewing the places in London. First up was the Minibar Royale, a very hip, “American diner’s” hangout kinda place for Bangkokian celebrities and socialites, serving up easy Western kinda food in a “hip” kinda way. Nothing too fancy or …
Good Bye London! I am getting sentimental thinking I will be away from London (and its restaurants) for two weeks. My destinations, I will not tell you just yet. But, before I leave I need to get something English to stop me going mental on board; I ended up with the haggis with fried duck …
After Roussillon, I was in desperate need of gastronomic redemption and very badly I hoped the afternoon tea at the Langham pre-booked a few weeks ago would deliver. The accolade of the place as well as its being awarded the Best Afternoon Tea 2010 by the UK’s Tea Guild did calm me down a bit, …
Weekendsssssss .. what do I do? Sleep, shop, eat, sleep, X Factor, Desperate Housewives, sleep, eat, shop, sleep–this is just the cycle of life. The occasional break from banality comes–just occasionally–with some afternoon tea treats. And this weekend I am going to one very special tea place!! I won’t tell you where it is just …