When I told my friend Heidi that I was taking her for dinner at The Grey Horse in Kingston she raised an eyebrow. “The Grey Horse? That used to be a music venue and was a bit of a dive. We’re having dinner there?” Apparently when Heidi was a teenager…
I first went to Mele e Pere (Apples and Pears) a few years ago with my friend Mandy, just before she moved to Australia. I remember it being really good although, oddly, in all these years I’d not returned. Until now. And it was just by chance. My husband and…
You know when you stumble upon a restaurant and you think, “Ooh I like that look of that!”? Well that’s what happened when I met my friend Frederique for lunch in Covent Garden just after Christmas. We decided to make our way to the Rosewood Hotel in Holborn for a…
We had tried for a while to get a Saturday lunch reservation at popular Soho Italian, Bocca di Lupo, with no such luck. On Friday night my husband suggested going there for lunch the next day, to which I scoffed we’d never get a table at such short notice. Nevertheless…
