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Review: Crab House Cafe, Weymouth
I love going to the coast. One of the main reasons I love it is the explosion of shabby-chic seaside shack restaurants that serve up smashing fresh seafood hauled out of the sea nearby. I don’t know who exactly started it and where, but we’ve found them from Pembrokeshire to Kent, Northumberland to Devon and …
Review: The Water House Project, Bethnal Green
They do a good thing at The Water House Project, a small touch but it feels generous and indulgent; with each of the wine pairings, they come along after and ask if you’d like a little more of the wine. Don’t mind if I do! Although, of course, it’s daft to overdo it on the …
Review: Sentosa, Bermondsey
Way back in 2010, in the middle of our year-long trip around the world, we found ourselves in Singapore for three days. This was a wonderful city, both quite alien in many of it’s habits and customs, but also completely modern and comfortable to be in (okay, except sometimes for the heat on the street!). …
Review: Ixchel, Chelsea
You’d expect a Mexican restaurant in Chelsea to be a little more stylish than a taqueria in Borough Market. Hey presto, Ixchel appears! With a stunning interior of cool creamy walls covered in artfully lighter rustic niches full of ancient-looking Mayan-stylie terracotta figures and some very grand cacti. The colour palette is graceful and restrained. …
Review: Cafe Murano, St James
There’s something about Italian cuisine in London that gives us a specific type of restaurant. Common elements: the dishes are pared back, simple Italian classics, the cooking and produce is high quality, and the prices are even higher. Cafe Murano is one of these, perhaps not surprisingly as it’s from Angela Hartnett’s stable and I …