Monthly Archives: October 2013

Chocolate Evening at Sartoria

Chocolate evening at Sartoria   & Willie’s Cacao Chocolate   20 Savile Row London W1S 3PR Tel: 020 7534 7000     I believe that most people love chocolate, we reward ourselves with bars of it, we pass them round boxes of them at dinner parties and come Christmas there are coins made of it. 

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The Urban Rajah’s Curry Memoirs

The Urban Rajah’s Curry Memoirs By Ivor Peters   Ivor Peters, know as the ‘Urban Rajah’ describes himself as a food author, cook, traveller and lifestyle adventurer.  His childhood in 70’s Britain was full of fish fingers and baked beans mixed with traditional Indian food kept alive by his family.  He has assembled a charming

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Joe Allen

Joe Allen 13 Exeter Street London WC2E 7DT Tel: 020 7836 0651               Like the opening scene from a movie we arrived in Soho looking for shelter from the pouring rain and made our way to 13 Exeter Street, with the reflections of neon light dancing on the pavement, we covered our heads from

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Ametsa with Arzak Instruction

Ametsa With Arzak Instruction Halkin Hotel Halkin Street London SW1X 7DJ Tel: 020 7333 1234   Ametsa is riding high.  It has just been awarded its first Michelin Star in less than a year of opening, I can see why.  This is almost a new kind of dining for London.  The sleek and startlingly stylish

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Sartoria

Sartoria 20 Savile Row London W1S 3PR Tel: 020 7534 7000    Stylish, classy, sophisticated and elegant, these are all words that can be used to describe something sartorial.  They can also be used to describe Sartoria in Savile Row.  This is a classic Italian restaurant with charming staff and food full of flavour. Being

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Heck Sausages

Heck Sausages  Available at Tesco  The Keeble family business is making sausages.  And they are very good at it.  I had the pleasure of trying a few of their new range called Heck recently.  This is a premium brand with aspiration; they taste fabulous and offer variety.  They might just be what every sausage lover

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Afternoon Tea at The Halkin

Afternoon Tea   The Halkin by como Halkin Street London SW1X 7DJ TEL: 020 7333 1000     Nestling within the smart set and with Diplomatic Embassies for company in Halkin Street the eponymous Halkin by COMO it’s a new addition to the hotel world.  Even more impressive the fact that just after I had

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Venice

Venice Veneto Italy   To try to find something that has not been said already about Venice is hard.  It’s beauty and charm, are more than apparent.  The aqua maze that the visitor is presented with is in itself quite staggering.  The 400 hundred or so bridges that span this cornucopia of palaces nestling in

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