While east London has its fair share of trendy hot spots, Hackney and London Fields, in particular, is still a bit of a mixed bag. The well-heeled gentry set shares their park picnic spaces with the rental crowd and local HA tenants.
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The Field Restaurant
23/07/2018 .Delicatessen
05/07/2018 .Hampstead’s Rosslyn Hill has long been a magnet for trendy cafes and restaurants. Affluent local residents enjoy a local evening bite and a weekend hangout while tourists visiting Hampstead’s quaint narrow lanes and heath seek pit stops to re-energise.
Read the full story hereGreat Insider guide to Madeira’s restaurants
19/06/2018 .Terry Marsh is a veteran of Madeira having spent over fifteen years writing about the island. Here, he gives us his Insider guide to Madeira’s restaurants. His favourite restaurants and foods you can find on the island
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10/06/2018 .My wife says she’s been dining out with a dinosaur for years, but this was the first time I had. The dinosaur in question was the centrepiece of the restaurant JNcQUOI in central Lisbon.
Read the full story hereBrilliant Bohemia Bar and Restaurant, Jersey
21/05/2018 .Andy Mossack indulges his fine dining passion at Bohemia Bar and Restaurant in St. Helier, Jersey’s capital
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21/05/2018 .The Atlantic Hotel high above St. Ouens Bay in Jersey has an awful lot going for it. Not only is it, hands down, my favourite hotel on the island – it sits in a breathtaking position at the top of the cliffs – but its Ocean Restaurant has a culinary offering to rival anywhere else on Jersey.
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07/05/2018 .One of the greatest culinary injustices of our times has been Spanish cuisine’s permanent “bridesmaid” relationship to its French equivalent. Oh sure, we all get along with tapas and foodies know only too well the major influences of three-star Iberian chefs such as Ferran Adria, Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena, the Roca brothers and Eneko Atxa.
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02/05/2018 .Rupert Parker gives his Guide to Fine Dining in Lisbon
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12/04/2018 .Can oysters ever taste as good in a stylish eatery as they do at a down-home restaurant awash in rough-hewn tables and rustic tiles? Seafood supremo Anders Selmer certainly thought they could when he launched Musling Bistro to complement his hugely popular Kodbyens Fiskebar in a grungier part of Copenhagen. Now Michelin have agreed with him and accorded the restaurant a Bib Gourmand.
Read the full story hereAfternoon Tea at the Savoy
29/03/2018 .Who are the guests selling out the lounge of the Savoy – a much grander room than the name “Thames Foyer” suggests – with their demand for a £65 afternoon blow-out?
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