Category: Food & Wine

On the table: Cafe Murano

Victoria Stewart visits the second branch of Cafe Murano, an excellent Italian spot offering access to Angela Hartnett’s fabled food in Covent Garden. A year spent studying in Verona 10 years ago taught me that the simple fact of living in Italy does not guarantee you good food. I did eat some truly excellent things […]

The sheer appeal of Sherry

This month Damian Carrington muses the food matching power of Manzanilla and Fino, the absolute pleasure to be sought in a copita of Amontillado or Oloroso and the London spots serving serious Sherry alongside stonking Spanish food. As I know I have written before, I have a very soft spot for fortified wine and in […]

On the table: Frenchie

For this month’s review Guy Davies undertook the arduous task of visiting Frenchie, a new opening in Covent Garden that is sibling to the Parisian restaurant of the same name, and home to an array of truly delectable dishes. Frenchie is that – unfortunately – rarest of beasts, an in-demand new restaurant with a lot […]

On the table: Lurra

With the constant flurry of new openings, it can be hard to make it back to restaurants past. This month food writer Victoria Stewart seeks the value of second helpings, returning to Marylebone’s Lurra. Twenty-sixteen, I’ve decided, is to be my year of repeat restaurant visits. Regular London restaurant-goers (myself included) are all so preoccupied […]