It sounds like the Latin name for an obscure herb, but Manitoba Tigella is actually an authentic Italian restaurant freshly arrived in London’s New Oxford Street, the southern boundary of foodie Fitzrovia which has hitherto been a bit of a gastronomic desert.

It was November 2014 when I last had the pleasure of Adam Handling. He was flushed with success at getting to the Professional Masterchef Final.

In these days of clean eating, a restaurant in right-on Shoreditch actually pushing meat is a rare treat  indeed.  

It’s not a long walk from The Corinthia London’s Bassoon Bar to the hotel’s Northall Restaurant, but it does offer an opportunity along the way to ogle at some pretty spectacular interior design on an epic scale.

Anthe Gerrie reviews Quaglino’s, one of London’s glamour restaurants

For decades, Paris has given travellers something London could not – an iconic station eatery in which to prelude an epic journey with a great meal served as swiftly as necessary, luggage no object.