Lime Wood Hotel
Last month Mr T and I were lucky enough to visit Lime Wood, a beautiful Regency country house hotel which started life as a hunting lodge in the 13th century just a couple of miles outside Lyndhurst. We were there … Continue reading
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Bonnie Gull Seafood Shack
Supper last night was a delight. It had started to rain and the dark, wet streets around Oxford Circus were stuffed with scurrying bodies all with heads down, marching forwards to get under cover. So it was with a huge … Continue reading
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Lake Como
I adore Italy. Ever since I first stepped foot in the country as a fifteen year old travelling to Rome to do work experience at the Vatican (no joke), I’ve never been able to shake off a feeling that part … Continue reading
A brilliant fish restaurant: The Company Shed on Mersea Island, Essex
My oldest sister now lives on the borders of Suffolk and Essex – or Suffex as we like to call it. And along the coast of this little bit of England, there lies possibly the country’s most brilliant seafood spot: … Continue reading
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Tagged Travel, weekend escapes
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New York Gluttony: the best of New York’s restaurants and bars (part 2)
Best New York City restaurants and bars (continued)… Please Don’t Tell PDT is a hot-dog joint for grown-ups. Accessed through a vintage phone booth within Crif Dogs, a fast food joint known for its deep-fried frankfurters, PDT (aka Please Don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Cocktails, Cool Bars, New York, Travel
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New York Eating and Drinking: Part 1 of the city’s best restaurants and bars
So four days (and about four stone) later, this is a quick round up of some of the mind bogglingly brilliant places my two sisters and I ate and drank at in New York last week. Whilst it’s impossible to … Continue reading
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Tagged Chefs, Cool Bars, holidays, New York, Travel
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Faviken Sweden: Is this the world’s most isolated restaurant?
So on Thursday three eager and intrigued restaurant PRs forewent lunch and took a train, a plane and a car and travelled to Fäviken in Jamtland for our supper. Jamtland is 500km north of Stockholm in Sweden, not far from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Quirky places to stay, Travel
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Eccles Cakes
As early as 1818 these small, flat raisin filled cakes were being gobbled up all over the UK and even as far as the West Indies having supposedly originated in James Birch’s shop on the corner of Vicarage Road in … Continue reading
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Tagged Baking, Weekend Eating
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Weekend Brunch: the best places in London right now
So with a long weekend coming up the pressures of where to go for brunch on Saturday with Mr T has been weighing heavily on my mind… This is my shortlist so far: Granger and Co. The ceaseless smiling sunny … Continue reading
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Tagged Breakfast, Brunch, Weekend Eating
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Mugaritz
I am quite excited about this book. It’s the first English language exploration of one of the most avant-garde restaurants in the world, … Continue reading
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