It seems an unlikely place to find an independent Portuguese restaurant linked to a farm and wine estate in Portugal: inside a modern leisure quarter rubbing shoulders with Zizzi, Cote, Pizza Express and the Odeon. But that’s where Santos & Co live, in Dorchester’s rather pleasant Brewery Quarter. It’s a big dining room and gives …
Joia has one very good thing going for it: huge floor-to-ceiling windows with 15th storey views out over Battersea Power Station and beyond. It’s a light and spacious dining room and it feels lovely to be here. That said, on arrival we had a similar experience to La Goccia: the lady on the door took …
This is the first time I’ve lived in London. I mean, I lived for 7 years in Sunbury-on-Thames and 3 years in Richmond and I called myself a Londoner… but hopping on the train once a week to do something around the West End or Kensington really doesn’t count, and my work was always in …
