Whisky Galore and more

Nov 4, 2021

Today I discovered Cadenhead’s on Chiltern Street in Marleybone, between Bond Street and Baker Street. This is a small shop selling whisky, and a selection of other spirits. It looks from a different age, with rows of wonderful amber and heavy wooden barrels...
Georgian cuisine

Georgian cuisine

Apr 26, 2019

Georgian cuisine is a unique fusion of eastern and western influences

Ottolenghi evening

Ottolenghi evening

Jan 18, 2015

A group of friends in Lewes meet every few months and make recippes from the cookbooks of Yotam Ottolenghi, a well known chef who specializes in Levant cuisine. A couple of years ago I had Khachapuri, a Georgian bread dish, at Guria, a Georgian restaurant in Moscow....

Chez Fatma: A Tunisian Restaurant in Brussels

Nov 27, 2014

We arrived at Chez Fatma  on a late autumn day, bedraggled and wet and with no reservation, and we immediately felt welcome. Fatima and her husband run the restaurant on Place Jourdan, and the cuisine is delicious and authentic. I ordered shorba, a traditional North...

Business lunch in Barcelona

Oct 4, 2014

Our lunch was cordoned off from the restaurant at large, and I felt sure we were the envy of the other diners. The table was a perfect square, an immaculate black tablecloth, and a total of eight places with a bottle of Spanish  wine in front of each pair of people...