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Thiptara, Peninsula Hotel, 333 Charoennakorn Road, Klongsan, Bangkok
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Amid the heat, bustle and chaos, where might the savvy traveller go for a quintessentially Thai meal?
Food Of The Week: Join Marco, Gary and James at the captain's table
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Gourmet restaurants, guest chefs and epicurean themes are set to add more than just a pinch of gastronomic savour to cruises across the world this year.
Treading water: Bord'eaux, Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London (Rated 2/ 5 )
Saturday, 22 March 2008
What's with the apostrophe? The new French restaurant at the Grosvenor House Hotel comes with a mid-name hiccup, that calls to mind with a shudder the band Hear'Say. It doesn't make much sense: Bord'eaux sort-of means "on the edge of waters", but there's no water nearer here than the Serpentine. But it's clear that the chef Ollie Couillaud (who used to be at La Trompette, and has wielded a mean cleaver at Tom's Kitchen and the revamped Dorchester Grill) is keen to bring a garlicky whiff of the Aquitaine coast to this venerable Park Lane temple.
Wine: Something for the Weekend
Saturday, 22 March 2008
Under a Fiver
2007 Misterio Oak Aged Malbec, Finca Flichman
Made from pure malbec and aged in oak, this is a ripe, but not overpowering, juicy red made from Argentina's signature grape, with generous plum supported by damsony acidity.
£4.99, Morrisons
Tom's Place, Cale Street, London
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Sustainable fish, moules marinière, home-made ketchup... Tom Aikens' new-wave fish and chipper is batter by far
Food Of The Week: Check in for the world's hot tables
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Fine dining is alive and well in swanky hotels across the globe, as this rash of recent openings proves.
Wine: Export strength
Saturday, 15 March 2008
Is it because France's wine producers are trying to have their cake and eat it that their wine seems to be trying to pull in several different directions at once? On the one hand figures show that France is shifting shedloads of wine with exports in excess of €9bn (about £7bn), or the equivalent of sales of 180 Airbus aircraft. Excellent news for France. But on the other hand, the euro's frightening power, in line with the pound and the dollar, not forgetting the Chinese yuan, spells trouble for its efforts to increase its exports.
Le Cassoulet, 18 Selsdon Road, South Croydon, Surrey
Sunday, 9 March 2008
Are the residents of south London ready to swap their Indian takeaways for 'proper' French bistro fare?
Food of the week: See the world through a wine glass
Sunday, 9 March 2008
Well-chosen and affordable wine is just the thing for the thirsty traveller and there are plenty of places in the UK offering just that.
Quilon, 41 Buckingham Gate, London SW1
Sunday, 2 March 2008
Quilon is exceptional and disappointing in equal measure. Is that really good enough for Michelin attention?
Market, 43 Parkway, London NW1
Sunday, 24 February 2008
As London's Camden Town recovers from a devastating fire, a great British restaurant is rising from the ashes
101 Star Bars: Prince Arthur, London E8
Saturday, 23 February 2008
For those of a certain literary vintage, the idea of a pub in London Fields will bring to mind hideous images of Keith Talent playing darts in the Black Cross, in Martin Amis's 1989 novel London Fields. The Black Cross would not make a round-up of fictional Star Bars – unless it was a highly specialised list of sticky-carpeted hell holes in which to plan your own murder – but fortunately in this case the truth is much nicer than fiction.
On a gilt trip: Vermilion, Hulme Hall Lane, Lord North Street, Manchester
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Its opulent interior cost millions. But will Vermilion bring the crowds to an industrial estate in east Manchester?
Paradise regained: The Walnut Tree Inn, Llandewi Skirrid, Abergavenny
Saturday, 16 February 2008
The Walnut Tree Inn, Llandewi Skirrid, Abergavenny
Plate With A View: Hanavsy Pavilon, Prague
Saturday, 16 February 2008
High above the Vltava river stands a remarkable pseudo-Baroque, cast-iron pavilion built in 1891 on the orders of Prince William of Hanau. The German aristocrat wanted to show the wonders that could be achieved by workers at his factory in Komarov at Prague's Land Jubilee Exhibition.
Dehesa, 25 Ganton Street, London W1
Sunday, 10 February 2008
Britain invented brunch over 100 years ago, but we've fallen out of love with it. Can Dehesa change our minds?
101 Star Bars: Benugo, London
Saturday, 9 February 2008
Following its relaunch in March, the BFI (formerly the NFT, formerly still a grey old restaurant that you’d scoot past on the way to aThames view) has taken on a completely new character.
L'Absinthe, 40 Chalcot Road, London NW1
Sunday, 3 February 2008
Primrose Hill's L'Absinthe is teaching flexible locals the French bistro method of beating stress
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