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I’ve been meaning to visit Fernandez & Wells ever since it opened. It’s so close to work and everyone I know (Eat Like A Girl says it’s one of her favourite places in London and recommends it particularly for wine and tasty nibbles after work) raves about how much they love it, but it’s still [...]
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Posted in British, London, Michelin star, dining out, food, meat, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, wine on Jan 23rd, 2009
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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, winemaker [...]
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Bocca di Lupo (literally Mouth of the Wolf) opened in Soho, London towards the end of last year. Several rave reviews later, fellow food blogger tasty treats! and I decided to go there for lunch a few days ago. I don’t eat much Italian food in London, as I prefer to go to Italy once [...]
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Posted in Bologna, Italian, Italy, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating, vegetarian, wine on Dec 23rd, 2008
We left Marina di Ravenna early in the morning, jumped on the train back to Bologna and dashed off to über gourmet delicatessen Tamburini to buy two boxes of fresh pasta and consume lunch at top speed, before grabbing a taxi to the airport to fly back to London. We were at Tamburini almost one [...]
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Le Café Anglais is ex-Kensington Place chef Rowley Leigh’s new(ish) venture. It won London Restaurant of the Year and New Restaurant of the Year at the London Restaurant Awards a few days ago. As it’s had plenty of positive write-ups, I’d always intended to visit one day. After sampling their heavenly spit roast belly pork [...]
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