Wine, food and other pleasures

The London restaurant scene is full of big names and big egos. Jeremy Lee of the Blueprint Café does not fit these descriptions, despite...

Yesterday I heard some particularly sad news – the Notting Hill Gate branch of Oddbins was due to close last night. Oddbins has been in a f...

You've got to love Easter. It's an especially long bank holiday weekend – good food, drink and company and the chance to relax. And,...

It's been like high summer this week in London – very un-Easter like – and I had the surreal experience of making hot cross buns in suc...

Today we were due to meet friends on Hampstead Heath for a picnic and I didn't have any suitable bread to take with us. What I had was ...

Earlier this week I had the fortune of attending the Big Fortified Tasting in London. Last year I was working there, standing in for a port...