[singlepic id=607 w=280 h=210 float=right]Sometimes I like to fool myself that I’m a local when I visit Cornwall. After all, I must have visited a dozen times. I know all the obscure villages; Praze an Beble, Indian Queens, Perranzebuloe, Mabe Burnthouse. I know how to pronounce Fowey and Mousehole (Fo’y and Mowz’l). And I never, …
Category: Rest of UK
Outside of London
Review: 5 North Street, Winchcombe
[singlepic id=596 w=280 h=210 float=right]It was very good of the owner of 5 North Street to phone me up a few hours before our booking to explain that they had no other bookings that evening. Not “…so we’re not going to open, sorry” as I’ve heard of happening elsewhere but “…so you’ll be alone in …
Review: The Daffodil, Cheltenham
[singlepic id=592 w=280 h=210 float=right]I was getting a distinct sense of deja vu. I was reading the menu at The Daffodil and a dish jumped out at me from the starters: steak tartare with corned beef. Hang on, didn’t Maureen have steak tartare with corned beef at Le Champignon Sauvage last weekend? My gaze wandered …
Review: Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham
[singlepic id=589 w=280 h=210 float=right]In my most exhuberant burst of foody behaviour yet, I’ve moved house and am now only ten minutes’ walk away from my nearest two-star Michelin restaurant! Because it’s important to have a good neighbourhood eatery for those Friday nights when you really can’t be bothered to cook, right? The restaurant in …
Review: Lasan, Birmingham
[singlepic id=579 w=280 h=210 float=right]Birmingham is not an easy city to love. The city centre is a soulless jumble of high-end and low-end brand outlets, eatery chains and cheap baguette shops. As though someone has put the word out that folks in Birmingham are fearful of accidentally buying anything independent or original, and everyone has …