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Dislikes: lukewarm soup; rudeness to wait staff; inflicting impeccable ingredients to indifference.
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Crêpe vs. Pancake A THIN PANCAKE is fitting here. Typically, this thin pancake is a European culinary delight: it shuns air bubbles, bounce, fluff and plate piled pancake aesthetic. Thin means, also, there’s no Japanese jiggle. By calling it a pancake in and of itself suggests heft. Pre-Lent Shrove Tuesday in Britain: are we snobbishly…
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I used to study here, in Notting Hill. In fact, I was persuaded to stick around this area. This was before a literature degree reflected a curated re-enactment, typically including the obligatory pop into the local bookstore. Before cobbled cul-de-sacs and cozy cat cafes, there was a fishmonger right by Notting Hill Gate station, a…
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Caen France – Bouillon Saint Martin Date of Visit – October 2025 Here is my experience in Caen, Normandy I was refused entry at a restaurant I researched. I mention this as a preface to what happened next. I hot-footed it there, knowing that the opening hours were all over the shop. I found another,…
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OUISTREHAM Ft. Funny Fish Date of visit – 22nd October 2025 Where it’s the dream of many lovers of seafood – of shellfish and perhaps simply oysters – to visit Brittany or in my case, Normandie, France, I quite fancied avoiding any tours. Perhaps even try oyster farming on a, well, an oyster farm. So…
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MAXIM – Ealing, London MAXIM London – dates of visit 2014-2023 There is a great divide when it comes to food. Be it the ingredient itself or the method by which it is prepared: no one is partial to a texture that they cannot tolerate. We all have to eat so why is it only…
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Visiting Vilnius, Lithuania – Part One. Date of Visit: February 2025 George Orwell said: “A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing…” So when I was greeted with “Why?” as the common response to mine – over mid-February exchanges in London that encourage enquiring over one’s plans – I was even more…
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Boro Bistro review – date of visit Saturday October 2025 Boro Bistro review Under the bridge and down the steps, en-route Borough Market, a perpendicular swivel to your right finds you enface an alleyway. There you find a courtyard leased out to indoor crazy golf and Boro Bistro. I would say, follow the fairy lights…
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Largest restaurant on Sloane Square – Colbert Colbert, not to be confused by the American comedian and writer of the same nomenclature, was opened to replace the Oriel restaurant in October 2012. Colbert the restaurant was created by Jeremy King and Chris Corbin after the Earl of Cadogan, the landlord, was dissatisfied with his meal at the Oriel and chose not to…
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London is England but it’s also, well, London. It’s a City and an expensive one at that. After a trip Tesco where you forgot the one item you intended to buy, what do you eat? In your London flat when you have a craving but no ingredients? Order from Deliveroo or other food delivery apps…
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ZUMA review – date of visit Saturday October 2025 The bouncer at the door, the hidden cobbled pathway of Raphael Street, the Knightsbridge address discreetly possessing no view of Harrods while neighbouring a Green King Pub— are all really good things about ZUMA, London. No, really, they are. Not many people talk about his upscale…
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