Restaurants Yes, what next? Without the delights of dining out and socialising, my portion of the Son et Vin blog had ground to a bone-shaking halt. Is there much point writing restaurant reviews, even historic ones, if the restaurant as we know it doesn’t exist…? Oh sure, I could start ordering in Five Guys and…
Category: Food
Tools of the Trade
‘There’s beauty in the worn tool of the craftsman,’ or so I remember reading in a periodical or novel or on the internet a little while ago. I have a habit of hearing something with such penetrating truth that, within an hour, it has been expunged from my mind and I can never recall it…
Sri Suwoon, Pimlico
It’s Sunday and I’ve just woken up from a dream. Was it a dream, though? See I was in Pimlico last night and I bumped into the Duke of Burgundy stashing treasures in a subterranean pocket of Miramont Gardens, and Stanley Holloway was there and Betty Warren and all I could ask each of them…
The Dungeness Snack Shack, Dungeness
I had a bottle left over from a summer spending binge that had intrigued me to such a degree, I never got around to drinking it. Unconscious Bias is a course being undertaken by every two-bit insurance corporation and government quango in the land – desperate for another accreditation in diversity and inclusion – and…
Wahaca, Bluewater
A couple of years ago, during a slow Saturday evening with nothing to do, I took the controller of my Amazon Firestick, pressed the Home button and like many others around the same time I suspect, I looked for something, anything, to watch. How many of us scroll through these befuddling menus and sub-menus in…
Frédéric, Maidstone
Urgh, I feel awful. I’m sitting at my desk the morning after, nursing the hangover from hell and racking my syrah-soaked brain trying to remember whether I committed anything deplorable last night. The signs aren’t good, people won’t look at me and my red eyes tell the sorry story of a man with a wine…
Annapurna, Folkestone
You can spend a healthy amount of time eating in Folkestone these days. A while ago, when I grew up here, there was a secretive, expensive Michelin-starred restaurant on the seafront, a couple of lineal staples in the shape of an Italian and a curry house, and very little beyond. Without being churlish, in the…
The Independent Pedaler, Bridge
Being a man in the 21st Century brings a number of challenges. And despite the efforts of modern life, being a good husband, father and cook are not the biggest of these challenges. As progressive as we may consider the world to currently be, us guys outside of London remain having to deal with the…
The Vinorium Australia Unearthed Tasting, 67 Pall Mall
Quick question: what does a marathon runner eat before the competition? Pasta? Chicken? A kale smoothie and handful of nuts? The reason I ask is because this past September I was competing in an endurance event of my own. A wine tasting hosted by The Vinorium at 67 Pall Mall called Australia Unearthed. ‘Hold on,…
Burger & Beyond, Shoreditch
You know the question thrown around by anyone interested in food… The platitude of the plate, the boring dinner party posit that stops Geoff talking about the cost of his new boiler and Julie about the mobility in her new hip. It’s a question I have rarely contemplated because I never see myself in the…
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