There are more experimental pairings available too. Everyone knows that a Bloody Mary goes perfectly with brunch, but Soho restaurant Randall & Aubin has taken the happy marriage a step further. For weekends throughout May, chef-patron Ed Baines has devised a menu of five beautifully executed brunch dishes, each matched with a cocktail based...
London. Home to the “Mother of all Parliaments”, epicentre of world democracy, the very bedrock of freedom of choice. Except, that is, on its restaurant scene, where menus are emerging offering minimal choice and, in some cases, no choice at all. The simple salad, dressed with a bracing mustard vinaigrette, cleansed and awakened the...
The London restaurant scene is no exception, as a visit to any of several free online booking sites will attest. Any night of the week, anyone wishing to eat out in the capital can bag a bargain at hundreds of restaurants at every price point, whether it’s a prix-fixe menu, a percentage off the...
In one of my favourite episodes of Sex And The City, Samantha takes the girls to trendy new restaurant Raw, where nothing is cooked above 118 degrees. The food is predictably revolting, so much so that when a battle of wills breaks out between Samantha and another diner for the attentions of a hunky...
