a guide to 'traveleating'
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, 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, dining out, food, French, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, wine on Sep 8th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in British, dining out, food, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on May 8th, 2008
[UPDATED: May 2009 - I was debating whether to write a revisit post about my latest visit to Konstam a week ago, but have decided against it. I'm still feeling disappointed, not in the food which was as good as on my previous two visits, but because of the incredibly slow service. The waiters were [...]
Posted in dining out, English, food, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Feb 5th, 2008
For over a year, husband has not been able to stop talking about Langan’s Brasserie, ever since he went there with his friends and had the ‘most amazing fish and chips’. Feeling skeptical but slightly curious as well, I finally agreed to go with him. It’s an ‘old school’ restaurant, very traditional, with fine art [...]
