Food: Flesh and blood
Poor Hawksmoor. So obviously the genius of English Baroque, and yet he always comes last in the histories, behind flashy…
Food: Luxury comedy
Sometimes I think luxury is a joke played on the rich by the not-so rich. In my mind, people on…
Food: Dinner drama
Novikov is an immense two-storey restaurant in deepest Mayfair. It serves Asian on the ground floor and Italian in the…
Food: Conference call
The Grand Hotel, Brighton, is the most beautiful hotel in England. It is bright and shiny like Simon Cowell’s teeth,…
Food: Movie dinners
The Odeon cinema in Whiteleys, Bayswater, has refurbished; it now has eight ‘Lounges’ where you can watch a film and…
Food: Smart casual
Reviewing the Delaunay is like reviewing Nelson Mandela. You cannot be rude. This restaurant, a new sister for the Wolseley,…
Food: Eating like a Miliband
I came to the Gay Hussar for gags about the Labour party; to find some wreckage of its glory days.…
A dream of sorts
Into Disney World, where the mouse and the princess rule
Food: I have been here before
34 is the new restaurant from Richard Caring, the ‘Lex Luthor of Mayfair’, who owns The Ivy, Le Caprice and…
Food: Eat me! I’m French!
I am very fond of the Connaught Hotel in Mayfair, because I once saw Mr and Mrs Bibi Netanyahu breakfasting…
Food: Raiding the fridge
The new hotel W looms like a giant fridge over Leicester Square. They demolished the poor old Swiss Centre to…
Waiting for Dr Nasty
David Starkey is no longer quite as eager to show off his bitchy side, but he can be persuaded …
Food: Occupy dinner
What to say about Occupy London? I support it, because I always judge a movement by the quality of its…
Keeping up with Liz Jones
The confessional journalist who attracts more bile than any other
Food: The End of Cows
Wolfgang Puck, who is a globally famous chef, has opened Cut on Park Lane. Beef is Cut’s thing and who…
Food: Drowning in mustard
The St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel, by Marriott, is 14 syllables long, which is too many. The best hotels have…
Tanya Gold on food
Psycho griller
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Bad sex, worse food
Food: Mothers’ pride
Oslo Court is the Jewish mother birthday party venue, or lunch if the Jewish mother must be home in time…
Galliano’s not the worst
A mutated, modern anti-Semitism is all around us, especially among the liberals who ask why we keep going on about it
Killing comedy
There is a ban on comedy flyering in Leicester Square.
Food: Bistro battleground
The Hotel du Vin is a mini chain of tasteful hotels, usually found in ‘heritage’ cities — Henley, Cambridge, wretched Tunbridge Wells.
Food: Frankie Vaughan deserves better
The Savoy Grill is a famous restaurant in a famous hotel and it knows it.
Food: Rick’s place
Rick’s place
Food: Hampstead grief
It is an old London fairytale that there are no good restaurants in Hampstead.
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