a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in British, dining out, food, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Mar 10th, 2009
Background: It was a toss-up between dinner at Hix Oyster & Chop House or Hawksmoor. I didn’t really mind when my friend chose the former because both were on my wishlist and I’ll be visiting Hawksmoor soon anyway. So back I went to Farringdon, the third time in a month, to visit what used to [...]
Posted in British, dining out, food, London, restaurant review, restaurants on Feb 16th, 2009
Background: Hereford Road in Notting Hill is a restaurant that I’ve long wanted to visit since it opened in October 2007. The last time I had a reservation, I had to cancel because of the weather, so I was particularly looking forward to having dinner here with an old friend. Head chef and co-founder Tom [...]
Posted in British, dining out, food, London, meat, Michelin star, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, wine on Jan 23rd, 2009
Background: St John in Farringdon has been bouncing on and off my restaurant wishlist for many years. I finally had the opportunity to dine there on Tuesday, when wine blogger Rob McIntosh from Wine Conversation and Thirst for Rioja invited fellow food bloggers Niamh, Chris, Helen, Lizzie and I to dinner to meet Rafael Vivanco, [...]
Posted in British, dining out, England, English, fish and chips, food, pub, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating on Oct 5th, 2008
The husband and I lunched on fish and chips here last year when we stayed in the pretty village of Bosham, Sussex, the night before Goodwood Revival classic car racing weekend. Bosham is lovely, but being so tiny, the options for dining out are limited to about four places. As we didn’t like the Millstream [...]
Posted in British, England, fish and chips, food, traveleating on Sep 23rd, 2008
Goodwood Revival classic car racing weekend takes place every September on Lord March’s huge estate in Sussex, where you can see some of the world’s rarest cars participating in the various races. Cars that you never even see in magazines, let alone at other classic car shows, are just casually parked and left unattended in [...]
