✻ berlin ✻
The Winery – great sit down eating with even greater value wine!
Like all food writers, I enjoy the freedom to choose what I review. After all, Berlin has thousands of potential eating places so it has to be my choice – good or bad.
✻ paris ✻
L'Entracte – a good act but not quite a great one
Meaning `intermission` or `interval`, l’Entracte conjures up images of busy, bustling, quick meals between two main acts. However that is not exactly the atmosphere that we found in this little bistro…
✻ london ✻
Applebee's Fish – a find at the heart of Borough Market
Borough Market has a world reputation as a super street food venue. It`s deserved.
✻ berlin ✻
Mustafa's Kebap – far, far away from my MUST list!
Allow me to let you into two – connected – secrets. Guide books have lots of value if you need maps or information on who designed a famous building. But they are useless when it comes to the fast cha…
✻ berlin ✻
Berlin's Best Thai Eaterie is not a restaurant!
In Berlin, we have what is now a long standing tradition on Sunday when the weather is fine. Our Thai community gathers in The Meadow in Preussenpark, and they sit on blankets with gas burners, coal …
✻ london ✻
Enemy action at Happenstance, Ludgate Hill
``Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action``, Ian Fleming wrote in James Bond novel Goldfinger. We found plenty of all three – especially the third – on a visit to Happe…
✻ berlin ✻
Katz Orange: Substantial, creative and upscale
"It`s good when you are drunk", is a rejoinder heard many times when asking the locals in Berlin where to eat.
✻ paris ✻
La Bonne Chaise: loads of empty Chaises and not very Bonne!
We booked La Bonne Chaise through the La Fourchette website (a thrifty way to get more for your euro when dining out often) as it had good reviews from many other diners. However...
✻ london ✻
Naru: a touch of Seoul in Central London
If you don`t live in New Malden, Surrey (Zone 4 - train from Waterloo) you are unlikely to run into Korean cuisine. New Malden has a substantial Korean population.
✻ london ✻
SAGAR VEGETARIAN – FINE DINING AT LOW COST
Here`s something you probably know but don`t always act upon. Meat, and even more so, fish, is expensive. Vegetarian eating should be a whole load cheaper.