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Neil Davey
Or, possibly, pre, pre ski… Summer in the Alps is food and hiking heaven The Alps. We all think about them for some winter entertainment but less so in the summer. Some regions, however, are trying to change that… Take Ischgl for example. Ischgl is home to more than 1,000 km of hiking paths (and…
Give those men a hand… and flowers. Nougat. Buttered toast. Orchard fruits. It sounds like a new Tom Kerridge pudding but, in fact, those are the tasting notes for a new exclusive sparkling wine created specifically for the chef at his two Michelin-starred pub The Hand & Flowers. The Hand & Flowers team – head…
Borough Market favourites Applebee’s Fish expand to the South Bank The last 25 years has seen Applebee’s Fish go through an interesting evolution. Located at the entrance to Borough Market, perhaps the heart of London’s food scene this last two decades, Applebee’s has morphed from a fish stall to celebrated restaurant. It’s also happened under…
Well, yes, potentially, with M Canary Wharf’s Symphony Experience multi-sensory dining experience Dinner and a show. There’s an old school date idea you don’t hear very often these days. And one that M Canary Wharf has, effectively, ripped up and rebuilt in very different fashion. This time dinner is, effectively, also the show. The Symphony…
Promising the elegant vibrancy of Mayfair and village-like feel of Marylebone, new luxury hotel The BoTree is scheduled to open in July 2023. If you’re spent any time just north of Oxford Street of late, you may have wondered what’s happening to that building. You know the one. Used to be a car park. Was…
In which Neil Davey takes Toyota’s RAV4 Dynamic AWD for several spins around the countryside Blimey. They’ve only gone and let me review another vehicle. Even after the last time and my full admission on my lack of knowledge, they’ve let me have the keys to another vehicle. And no, I still don’t know what…
Takuya Watanabe swaps Paris for London with the launch of Taku London’s Japanese offering has soared considerably this year and, well, it’s happening again. This month (November 2022) sees the opening of Taku, an omakase restaurant headed up by Chef Takuya Watanabe, formerly of Jin, the first sushi omakase in Paris to receive a Michelin…
Well, yes. In the case of Marlow’s The Oarsman, that’s literally the case. Marlow is one of those British towns that punches way above its weight in culinary terms. Tom Kerridge has his Michelin-starred pub The Hand and Flowers there, not to mention his other Michelin-starred pub The Coach. And then, just over there, at…
See the former. Pack the latter. There are many reasons to visit New York and, at last count, at least two of them are called Katz. For gargantuan sandwiches, recreations of famous scenes from When Harry Met Sally, or the sending of salami to your boy in the army, you want the deli. For a…
By the power of Grayshott… We have… well, not the power, as such. But our rooms smell very nice. Grayshott is a new, small (but-beautifully-formed) lifestyle brand producing rather stylish candles. While the story begins in India, where, in 1926, on the east coast, stood an allegedly magnificent house called Grayshott. And the family who…