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Saturday, 7 November 2020
After first being announced two years ago, Kol finally opened its doors in October at a spacious site, directly opposite …
Continue reading "Kol review – the new Mexican in need of a little extra spice"
By Bruce Palling
Saturday, 24 October 2020
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Saturday, 13 June 2020
Just when the fine dining fraternity thought after months of gloom, there were some glimmers of hope for the future, …
Continue reading "Closure of the Ledbury is a culinary catastrophe"
By Bruce Palling
Saturday, 16 May 2020
There is a fascination with what makes a restaurant tick. It is probably prompted by the surfeit of TV cookery …
Continue reading "Dirt review – Bill Buford’s journeys in French cuisine"
By Bruce Palling
Friday, 10 April 2020
Alexander Kinglake warns the reader in the preface to Eothen (1844), his travel classic, that it is quite superficial in …
Continue reading "Lost Classic – Alexander Kinglake’s Eothen"
By Bruce Palling
Saturday, 29 February 2020
A generation ago, there were no three-star Michelin restaurants located in hotels. No one ever explained why not – it …
Continue reading "Making a mark – Alain Ducasse and Romain Meder at the Plaza-Athénée"
By Bruce Palling
Saturday, 8 February 2020
We can all agree that London has an unrivalled array of cuisines from every corner of the globe with numerous …
Continue reading "Merlin Labron-Johnson’s Osip – taking world-class cooking beyond the M25"
By Bruce Palling
Saturday, 18 January 2020
Nearly a century and a half ago, Walter Scott, a hawker in Providence, Rhode Island, converted a horse-drawn freight wagon …
Continue reading "An American diner in Paris"
By Bruce Palling
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