Note: Lumen cafe is no more. Well, it’s not run by Charlotte Jarman any longer – she and the cafe parted ways two weeks ago, because the charity that managed the cafe were a bunch of awkward buggers who made her life hell. It’s their loss – Charlotte can now be found cooking part time […]

Theatrically camp waitors: check. Belting house music: check. Randall & Aubin is a Soho institution – a seafood restaurant bursting at the seams with rowdy twenty-somethings all chucking back white wine, necking oysters and yakking away exuberantly. There is atmosphere in bucketloads, and did I mention that the food is also very good? The decor […]

So my wonderful husband treated me to a belated birthday dinner on Friday, at L’Autre Pied, the sister restaurant to top restaurateur David Moore’s Pied a Terre. How do I know about David Moore? Well, I was totally hooked on the BBC series ‘The Restaurant’, in which Raymond Blanc offered one couple the chance to […]

Sometimes in life it’s really fun to luxuriate in a little bit of swank. As in, going to a really all-bells-all-whistles top restaurant, where the food is stacked in fancy towers and the cocktails take ages to mix. Usually I’d find such places intimidating and over-fussy, but sometimes they can be all-out fun if the […]

Sometimes it’s so hard to find a pub that serves decent ales AND food. But happily we stumbled upon the gem that is The Lewes Arms, a stone’s throw from the castle and tucked away behind the law courts in the historic town of Lewes in East Sussex. We arrived, bedraggled and a tad depressed […]

We celebrated the new year at our friends’ wedding in Buxton, Derbyshire. There was snow on the ground and we drank mulled wine outside, trying not to fall down in our high heels and twat ourselves on the ice. The bride and groom had a tower of cheeses (left) instead of a traditional wedding cake, […]

Sometimes I’m lucky enough to stumble upon the occasional hidden away eatery that is truly unique, a little bit under-the-radar, and with an edge of naughtiness. Somewhere with a rebellious spirit and a generous nature. I almost don’t want to tell you about this one, but I’m feeling festively generous. And the food is a-mazing. […]

Ever been out to eat somewhere where the clientele make you feel as though you’ve hurtled into a timewarp? This was the bizarre experience I had when three friends and I went for dinner at Village East, a New York-style bar and restaurant on Bermondsey Street, South London, on Saturday night. I thought I had […]